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。
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abscess on the prominentia laryngea
Aetinex
air right
all-skin viscose fibre
antigenic polysaccharide
axes fixed in the body
Bemis, Samuel Flagg
buildingout section
cathode-catalyst stability
center-of-mass velocity
championess
chartered public accountant
cholera suppressa
chymogen
circumferential load
colo(u)r fixative
Commodity Pool
comp sci
compensation level
computing electronics
consumer equilibrium
coppedge
cost value of forest of a single stand
crossing over modifier
cultelere
cup ring
dayrovers
debt service fund
do the rounds of
Dolobene
edmund-davies
educational activities
electric arc lamp
endo-erepsin
erasure burst correcting convoltional code
Every ass likes to hear himself bray
fagopyrixm
four-metres
full conversion
generator-voltage constant parameter
glenoid lip
guardian's allowance
gum-liker
harmotomite
high-speed ground transport system
Hu Feng
hydrafiner
image synthesis
inshore lifeboat coverage
isotope incoherence
IVET
ketosphinganines
khosam
Kingston upon Hull
kinsmanship
levelled
LEVISS
local invariance
luzon i.
machiavellians
maretia planulata
marine deposition coast
maritime frequency band
Miānrud
Netrang
nido coordination compound
non-monochromatic emission
Northern Telecom
oahu islands
Old Babylonian
ore roasting chamber
out-of-plane load
parallel processings
photo-tracer
pork-type hog
pre-primary
precast concrete armour unit
rated speed of revolution
scattering centre
schizocoelom
scratch about
serialgram
shoemaker's callosity
Stephen's spots
sub-specialist
sumphs
sutured
system bit in a descriptor
take no risks
tear speed
temporal wing
tetraborates
the Bank of England
thermophores
train-tube
twin missile carrier
ultra-sonic vibration
unstaple
V-notch impact test
vagarist
vehicle registration fee
weighing bridge