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
abraison platform
accrued income receivable
acer saccharinum
adrenalinogen
aeronautical satellite
ageing behaviour
alfred eisenstaedts
All let go aft!
Application for Tonnage Dues
Appomattox (court House)
atractylene
bacterial nitrification
Ban Don Wan
bed tricks
Bendieuta R.
bent up
bhcs
Bromphenobis
cardboard
Cave del Predil
chinese american
Chiusa Sclafani
choice-making
colliery turn
continuous bending strength
Corbin Hd.
Cyclanthera
develop a taste for
differential resistance
douay-rheims versions
east-south-eastwards
edge trailing
El Juncal
energy war
epipolar geometry
eprix
farfals
folargesse
fortuitous causalty
Geosiridaceae
girt-brew
guidebook
holding (hldg)
homozygousity
I.M.S.
IEE
ige
in one's time
indigenous method
intermediate part of bulbs
junior college students
kissing off
LOGAIR
low frequency wet flashover voltage
mcg cardiography
microfleeces
middle cervical
Midi, Dent du
mouse-tooth forcepss
multiple choice questions
mystiltyne
N-function
nonparametric methods
nucleophage
nustagmograph
of-ten
Ossietzky, Carl von
pars optica hypothalami
pee and one
pistomesite
plagiomnium rostratum
plumbagoes
Plétipi, L.
power regulation and control
proscan
queen olive
Radon measures
ruberies
Samern
sanlitun
scinto
Serovskiy Rayon
sinnet rope
Sint-Michiels
solutional cavity
spells out
sulfadoxin
supraspinous muscle
synodontidaes
throater
to slam
tool set up
triebelina chuchihia
turnstile attendance
unpadlocked
unpopping
us la
vertical fire-tube exhaust boiler
vitreous enamel
whizzbangs
yarn-dyeds
zestless