时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:英语角-圆桌会议


英语课

   Topic1-Fake Medical Experts on TV Commercials


  There's a fat chance you'd recognize this older lady on TV. She has been seen on TV posing as the only living practitioner 1 of traditional Tibetan medicine, an experienced and renowned 2 nutritionist, a retired 3 president of a top hospital, to name a few. Now she has been busted 4 as total fake.
  How did she get on TV in the first place? More importantly how could fake health and medical information be broadcasted on TV?
  RT's Happy Place
  Topic2-Michelin star chef's knife skills mocked by Chinese netizens
  A video showing the knife skills of a Michelin star chef has become the subject of mockery and ridicule 5. As Chinese internet users claim their moms can easily beat the chef in a slicing and dicing 6 competition.
  What qualifies a top chef?

1 practitioner
n.实践者,从事者;(医生或律师等)开业者
  • He is an unqualified practitioner of law.他是个无资格的律师。
  • She was a medical practitioner before she entered politics.从政前她是个开业医生。
2 renowned
adj.著名的,有名望的,声誉鹊起的
  • He is one of the world's renowned writers.他是世界上知名的作家之一。
  • She is renowned for her advocacy of human rights.她以提倡人权而闻名。
3 retired
adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
  • The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
4 busted
v.讥讽,挖苦;n.嘲弄
  • You mustn't ridicule unfortunate people.你不该嘲笑不幸的人。
  • Silly mistakes and queer clothes often arouse ridicule.荒谬的错误和古怪的服装常会引起人们的讪笑。
5 dicing
n.掷骰子,(皮革上的)菱形装饰v.将…切成小方块,切成丁( dice的现在分词 )
  • We are dicing for drinks. 我们在掷骰子赌喝酒。 来自辞典例句
  • A lady doesn't crawl around on the decks dicing with the crew. 高贵女士可不会和船员们在船的甲板上来回爬。 来自电影对白
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