时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:访谈录2011年


英语课

 -You know it's amazing because you learn so much about your family, I mean, you went 200 years back on my mother side and 200 years back on my father side and I just found out things I didn't know at all and one of the things it also tells you, you know, distant cousins that you're related to who are, you know, well-known, and, and you know I, I  found I'm related to, ah, Nixon. He did some good things.


-But...
-And ah...
-But let me interrupt you. I don't know anything about this. 
-OK.
-But,but, first of all, how does he trace this back to Richard Nixon?
-Well, well, he literally 1, he literally do like a cheek swab.
-Also it's DNA 2.
-It's DNA as well as just they have genealogists who actually go back and they look, they find pieces of, of real, you know, like sensors 3 and...
-And did they do a cheek swab on President Nixon?
-I don't know, I don't know.
-See, it's fascinating ,but is there a commercial on, on TV where a guy comes on and he says “Oh, I was skeptical 4 and then I typed in my thing on my deal, and turns out my grandparents lived next door to the right brothers were .Who forgot to tell me that , and I'm screaming :' No, they didn't live next to their right brothers. It's a lie. It's a scam'". How about, how about? But you're related to Richard Nixon in the sense that all humans are related. Is that pretty much what it is ?
-No, no apparently 5 we're just in cousins.
-Just in cousins. 
-As well as Jimmy Carder, Marilyn Monroe, I can see they are resemble.
-Yeah.
-And Kevin Bacon. 
-You're related to your husband. How are you related to your husband.
-Tenth cousin once has removed. It was a little upsetting. I'm not gonna lie.
-Yeah, I'm very skeptical at this. I just, I mean, I don't know. I bet I would go in there and I bet I'm related to those same people.
-But it was on PBS. You have to believe PBS.

1 literally
adv.照字面意义,逐字地;确实
  • He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
  • Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候,她不走到真正要昏厥了,决不肯坐下来。
2 DNA
(缩)deoxyribonucleic acid 脱氧核糖核酸
  • DNA is stored in the nucleus of a cell.脱氧核糖核酸储存于细胞的细胞核里。
  • Gene mutations are alterations in the DNA code.基因突变是指DNA密码的改变。
3 sensors
n.传感器,灵敏元件( sensor的名词复数 )
  • There were more than 2000 sensors here. 这里装有两千多个灵敏元件。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Significant changes have been noted where sensors were exposed to trichloride. 当传感器暴露在三氯化物中时,有很大变化。 来自辞典例句
4 skeptical
adj.怀疑的,多疑的
  • Others here are more skeptical about the chances for justice being done.这里的其他人更为怀疑正义能否得到伸张。
  • Her look was skeptical and resigned.她的表情是将信将疑而又无可奈何。
5 apparently
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
学英语单词
accumulating reproducer
Agastache foeniculum
aluminium-clad wire
ancloy
anthrathiophene
arc welder
auto restart
Baan Baa
basic representation
bayadere moire
bdg
be one's own person
bentiromide
bleared
blocktalc
boarding pike, boarding-pike
case-mortality rate
chromotypic
coiid
color center laser
combinatory analysis
come in!
competent cells
compitor
consiliative
crocodylus niloticuss
cynghanedd
Dendrolimus tabulaeformis
diffuse code
Elmshorn
emptying door
endoparasitoid
epinephelus fuscoguttatus
Euphorbia milii
fermentation cellar
fracture of alveolar bone
fuel-oil over-flow valve
genus Quamassia
haloumis
hammer head key
high-fidelity television
high-speed job selection
hoisting beam for repairs
ianthinus
inflammatory polyp of rectum
initial configuration
insurance company rating
intervocalically
isoelectronic principle
jarful
kinematic coefficient of viscosity
Kings Valley
klotz
Knud Rasmussens Land
Krassowski eliipsoid of 1938
legislation on wages
make quantum leaps
manihot esculentas
medical screening
mercury dropping electrode
metal ring
metatarsalgia
Microsporum felineum
molinism
mollis cancer
move away from
multicount mode
non-roundness measurement
non-transparent
OCP (output control pulse)
omnibus cue circuit
pale about the gills
paradisi
parietal lobes
pedestalled
penobscot
pentaoxides
personal macro workbook
petcock
pistol-whippeds
port ontario
portrait painter
power distributing board
pteroclids
quartz controlled transmitter
rhus vernixes
saku
samaraii
Schiehallion series
state senator
stillsons
ternary system
time-bounded Turing machine
trisuloides caerulea
tupto-ing
two terminals
two-resonator klystron amplifier
who'm
wigged out
wound yarn
yaba-like poxvirus
ydaunted