时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之日常生活


英语课

 


Being Cautious or Thrill-Seeking


Paula: Did you get an invitation to Kip and Sheri’s wedding? 


Robert: Yeah, I did. I’m still trying to wrap my head around the two of them getting married. Never in my wildest dreams would I put those two together. It boggles my mind that they’re in the least compatible. 


Paula: What do you mean? 


Robert: Sheri is really adventurous 1 and definitely a thrill-seeker. 


Paula: Maybe she’s mellowed 2 over the years. 


Robert: I don’t think so, and Kip is the opposite. He’s always toed the line and I don’t think he has an adventurous bone in his body. 


Paula: I’ve never thought of Kip as being uptight 3


Robert: No, he’s not uptight. He’s just very cautious. You’d never find him looking for an adrenaline rush or even a little novelty. 


Paula: You know what they say: opposites attract. 


Robert: If that’s true, then in their case, polar opposites attract! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 adventurous
adj.爱冒险的;惊心动魄的,惊险的,刺激的 
  • I was filled with envy at their adventurous lifestyle.我很羨慕他们敢于冒险的生活方式。
  • He was predestined to lead an adventurous life.他注定要过冒险的生活。
2 mellowed
(使)成熟( mellow的过去式和过去分词 ); 使色彩更加柔和,使酒更加醇香
  • She's mellowed over the years. 这些年来他变得成熟了。
  • The colours mellowed as the sun went down. 随着太阳的落去,色泽变得柔和了。
3 uptight
adj.焦虑不安的,紧张的
  • He's feeling a bit uptight about his exam tomorrow.他因明天的考试而感到有点紧张。
  • Try to laugh at it instead of getting uptight.试着一笑了之,不要紧张。
学英语单词
advancingly
Aniliidae
Annaple
auxiliary appliance for lighting system
azastene
ballast connection
be married at registry
blot
bodily tides
callicot
canonical flabby resolution
ceramic-filter
chabrols
chump-change
closed-system separator
cm Hg
commelinin
crispite
cyanophytes
DC comparison type potentiometer
diamond cut off wheel
dicranidion palmicolum
divider hair
economic losses
elaiometers
enetopia
equatorialis
fabbing
favo(u)rable balance of trade
foramen orbito-rotundum
force-put
forwarding address
four-in-line
freight space
fuming furnace
g-o-s
gentianopsis thermaliss
grease someone's fist
hexadecimal display format
hopin
horizontal hold
hot (spice) sauce
hyperextend
inferior epigastric vein
initial cross-section
interpeduncular cistern
inviolability of property
June cold
Kubokawa
kvah
laser-produced plasma
lisimeter
mastogloia rostrate
mensur
mesonephrogenic vesicle
multistage inventory system
music centre
neckliker
neutral oxide
noise circumstance
nominal sentence
non-deforming region
on this basis
ordered probit model
out branch
penetrating capability
phi coefficient
polemagogic image
porntip
postalare
postcecal abscess
primary mimesis
product reliability
program analysis method
radioactivity-bearing tissue
reference format rule
reinterested
remonetisation
removable partial denture
revival of erosion
rosat
ruin-tail
Révigny-Sur-Ornain
Sant'Elia, C.
secondary carnivore
shadow banking
Snellen charts
streaky crumb
sylvyne (sylvinte)
tao tais
tectoridin
Tereus
test-bed horsepower
threshing tool for one ear
tin ingot
toilet tubes
tuberculous nephritis
Tyuleniy, Ostrov
visual inspection visually inspect
voluntary labor
wusa
yuni