时间:2019-02-27 作者:英语课 分类:趣谈英语


英语课
Pre-Listening Vocabulary
 
stunt 1: a daring act that takes courage and skill
hire: to offer to pay someone for their services
decoy: a person or thing that tricks people into going or looking a different way
resemblance: likeness 2
impersonate: to pretend to be someone
keep something at bay: to prevent future trouble from happening
 

Body Doubles Do More Than Stunts 3
Body doubles are often used for special shots in films or television shows. They perform dangerous stunts, such as running through a burning building or jumping from an airplane. This is not the only reason a body double might get hired. Body doubles who are in very good physical shape are often hired to do nude 4 scenes. They may also be used as stand-ins for magazine photo shoots. Oprah Winfrey has a body double for this purpose. According to some reports, China’s super rich can hire a body double to appear in court and serve time for a crime. Body doubles can also act as political decoys. Some body doubles even receive plastic surgery. High profile body doubles need to have a strong resemblance to the person they are impersonating. Celebrities 5 sometimes hire body doubles to keep the media at bay. According to gossip magazines, Tom Cruise hired a body double for his daughter Suri. Do you believe this rumour 6?


n.惊人表演,绝技,特技;vt.阻碍...发育,妨碍...生长
  • Lack of the right food may stunt growth.缺乏适当的食物会阻碍发育。
  • Right up there is where the big stunt is taking place.那边将会有惊人的表演。
n.相像,相似(之处)
  • I think the painter has produced a very true likeness.我认为这位画家画得非常逼真。
  • She treasured the painted likeness of her son.她珍藏她儿子的画像。
n.惊人的表演( stunt的名词复数 );(广告中)引人注目的花招;愚蠢行为;危险举动v.阻碍…发育[生长],抑制,妨碍( stunt的第三人称单数 )
  • He did all his own stunts. 所有特技都是他自己演的。
  • The plane did a few stunts before landing. 飞机着陆前做了一些特技。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.裸体的;n.裸体者,裸体艺术品
  • It's a painting of the Duchess of Alba in the nude.这是一幅阿尔巴公爵夫人的裸体肖像画。
  • She doesn't like nude swimming.她不喜欢裸泳。
n.(尤指娱乐界的)名人( celebrity的名词复数 );名流;名声;名誉
  • He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
  • a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目
n.谣言,谣传,传闻
  • I should like to know who put that rumour about.我想知道是谁散布了那谣言。
  • There has been a rumour mill on him for years.几年来,一直有谣言产生,对他进行中伤。
学英语单词
abutment joint
Ackeret theory
Ampere's right-hand screw rule
anti-Semitic
antierythropoietin
automoasurement
bearing enelosure
bending lehr
biological accumulation factor
blade crusher
blankenbaker
Boyes
bridgetowns
candle-ends
cataract bottlemakers'
catenet
circinella muscae
clynch
coating glasses
colonial goods
companionship enterprise
compensating element
contrast transfer function
cosella longana
detective limitation
dielectric power factor
dockizing
dolosa
donkey-meat
drum water meter
e-tutors
elastic break down pressure
Eucha
fire-eatings
flavory
Florencio Varela
formyl chloride
galacta
gasket mounting
Heterobasidiomycetidae
honeycomb ceramics
hypertrophic obstructive primary cardiomyopathy
Impatiens yunnanensis
internal fluid friction
jet tapping
jewelleries
larrisa
lavenson
liability limits
lifting link
medium-format
middle coat
mode (c.i.p.w.)
moeb
Moneron, Ostrov
mysophobiac
naucoris
nerve blocking anesthesia
Normanization
oblivious transfers
Pilar de la Horadada
polyadelphite
positive throat nozzle
presnap
Provenal
quasi-stationary motion
railway shares
residual maturity
reveling in
rigging equipment
Ruge's solution
Sanders Seamount
Sarcocystidae
sceptre
sea-guard
senecio poisoning
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silicon micromachining
slabstock
smalltalk/v
source level debugger
spermoneuralgia
sub-chronic
suprematistic
surrogacy
suzye
tambay
tank water evaporator
tetraethylgermanium
tissue homogenate
to poo
torus uteri
transpired
undistributed earnings
vertex cover number
walking the floor
wash deck piping
wilful obstruct
xyr
zeff
zinc calcine
zobaa