ESL Podcast 350 – A Movie Review
时间：2019-02-07 作者：英语课 分类：地道美语播客
Sally: Did you see the new movie, The McQuillan Story? I’m writing a movie review for the school paper.
Marcus: I went to the premiere last week. What did you think of it?
Sally: I liked it. I thought it was entertaining, although it wasn’t groundbreaking, by any means.
Marcus: You thought it was entertaining? I thought it was awful. I almost walked out. The acting 1 was wooden and uninspired, and the direction was amateur.
Sally: Aren’t you being too critical? It was the director’s first movie and I thought his directorial debut 2 wasn’t bad. If there was a problem, it was with the screenplay.
Marcus: Don’t get me started on the screenplay! The story was so predictable and the dialogue was pretentious 3. This movie is going to bomb for sure.
Sally: Oh, I don’t know. I think some people may enjoy it.
Marcus: If you want to do your readers a favor, you’d tell them to skip this movie and save their money!
Script by Dr. Lucy Tse
- Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
- During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。
- That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里，他初次在百老汇登台，扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
- The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。
- He is a talented but pretentious writer.他是一个有才华但自命不凡的作家。
- Speaking well of yourself would only make you appear conceited and pretentious.自夸只会使你显得自负和虚伪。