英语博客：ESL Podcast 739 – Performing an Intervention
时间：2019-01-28 作者：英语课 分类：地道美语播客
Petra: Hey, what’s going on here? Why are all of you here in my apartment?
Johann: Your family and close friends are here to perform an intervention 1. We feel that you have a problem that is negatively affecting your life and the lives of the people around you.
Petra: An intervention?! I don’t need an intervention. What am I supposed to be addicted 2 to?
Johann: I think you know. Each of us can attest 3 to your obsession 4 and the consequences of that addiction 5. It is interfering 6 with your work and your personal relationships.
Petra: No, it’s not. I can’t believe this. I feel cornered!
Johann: We just want to help you. We all agree that you need to see a therapist and maybe go into treatment.
Petra: You guys are all crazy. Is that an ultimatum 7?
Johann: Yes, I’m afraid it is. If you don’t stop your obsessive 8 behavior, we’ll take that away.
Petra: What?! Take away my MP3 player? If you take away my MP3 player, how am I supposed to listen to ESL Podcast?
Johann: That’s the idea. Listening to ESL Podcast 14 hours a day is not healthy.
Petra: Okay, I know I’ve gone overboard, but I’ll stop. I promise.
Johann: You’ll stop cold turkey?
Petra: Well...I need to be weaned off, I think. How about if I cut back to 10 hours a day to start?
Script by Dr. Lucy Tse
- The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
- Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。
- He was addicted to heroin at the age of 17.他17岁的时候对海洛因上了瘾。
- She's become addicted to love stories.她迷上了爱情小说。
- I can attest to the absolute truth of his statement. 我可以证实他的话是千真万确的。
- These ruins sufficiently attest the former grandeur of the place. 这些遗迹充分证明此处昔日的宏伟。
- I was suffering from obsession that my career would be ended.那时的我陷入了我的事业有可能就此终止的困扰当中。
- She would try to forget her obsession with Christopher.她会努力忘记对克里斯托弗的迷恋。
- He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
- Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。
- This time the proposal was couched as an ultimatum.这一次该提议是以最后通牒的形式提出来的。
- The cabinet met today to discuss how to respond to the ultimatum.内阁今天开会商量如何应对这道最后通牒。