时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

   目前大卫·芬奇(David Fincher)操刀为Netflix制作的大热原创美剧《纸牌屋》(House of Cards)广受追捧,剧中凯文·史派西(Kevin Spacey)主演一个冷血无情的美国国会议员及与他同样野心勃勃的妻子在华盛顿高层当中「运作权力」的故事。今天我们节目就来和大家聊聊剧中涉及到的美国国会知识,坐稳听好了哦!


  课程词汇精选:
  1. Nice to have you back. 欢迎回来。
  2. House of Cards 纸牌屋
  3. House of cards is a game that you play with poker 1 cards. 纸牌屋就是用纸牌玩的游戏。
  4. You take the cards and you try to build a building as high as you can with your cards. 你用纸牌尽可能的搭起一个楼。
  5. fragile 脆弱的
  6. Very fragile, very unstable 2. At any second, you know, you can even just like blow it, phew, and it's all gone.
  非常脆弱,非常不稳定。任何时刻,你知道的,你都可以轻轻一吹,就全倒了。
  7. metaphor 3 暗喻
  8. Francis(Frank) J. Underwood 弗兰西斯.安德伍德
  9. Kevin Spacey 凯文·史派西
  10. They are saying that TV is becoming bigger and more important than movies. 他们说电视剧变得越来越重要,甚至超过了电影。
  11.golden age of television 电视行业的黄金时代
  12. David Fincher 大卫·芬奇
  13. The Social Network 社交网络
  14. play 出演
  15. He starts off as the majority whip of the house. 他上任初期出任的是多数党的党鞭。
  16. majority whip 多数党党鞭
  17. minority whip 少数党党鞭
  18. the House (of Representatives) 众议院
  19. the Senate 参议院
  20. whip the votes 拉票
  21. savvy 4 机智的
  22. conspiracy 5 阴谋
  23. conspiracy theory 阴谋论
  24. political marriage 政治婚姻
  25. lovey-dovey 卿卿我我
  26. streaming 流媒体
  27. daring 大胆的
  28. It paid off. 物超所值了。
  29. subscriber 6 订阅者
  30. cosmetic 7 ads 化妆品广告
  31. binge-watching 一口气看完

1 poker
n.扑克;vt.烙制
  • He was cleared out in the poker game.他打扑克牌,把钱都输光了。
  • I'm old enough to play poker and do something with it.我打扑克是老手了,可以玩些花样。
2 unstable
adj.不稳定的,易变的
  • This bookcase is too unstable to hold so many books.这书橱很不结实,装不了这么多书。
  • The patient's condition was unstable.那患者的病情不稳定。
3 metaphor
n.隐喻,暗喻
  • Using metaphor,we say that computers have senses and a memory.打个比方,我们可以说计算机有感觉和记忆力。
  • In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.玫瑰在诗中通常作为爱的象征。
4 savvy
v.知道,了解;n.理解能力,机智,悟性;adj.有见识的,懂实际知识的,通情达理的
  • She was a pretty savvy woman.她是个见过世面的漂亮女人。
  • Where's your savvy?你的常识到哪里去了?
5 conspiracy
n.阴谋,密谋,共谋
  • The men were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.这些人被裁决犯有阴谋杀人罪。
  • He claimed that it was all a conspiracy against him.他声称这一切都是一场针对他的阴谋。
6 subscriber
n.用户,订户;(慈善机关等的)定期捐款者;预约者;签署者
  • The subscriber to a government loan has got higher interest than savings. 公债认购者获得高于储蓄的利息。 来自辞典例句
  • Who is the subscriber of that motto? 谁是那条座右铭的签字者? 来自辞典例句
7 cosmetic
n.化妆品;adj.化妆用的;装门面的;装饰性的
  • These changes are purely cosmetic.这些改变纯粹是装饰门面。
  • Laughter is the best cosmetic,so grin and wear it!微笑是最好的化妆品,所以请尽情微笑吧!
学英语单词
active touch
aggregation fore
Ahishar
Amas
ambulation training
Amphistaenidae
anisotropy constant
annular ligament of radius
arfendazam
aupair
bergelson
beyondmissing
bratunacs
brush beef
calcium perborate
Caragana stenophylla
Centenillo
Chinese oil of cinnamon
civic consciousness
collegiate institute
compass needles
compression swirl
conversion equivalent
conversion issue
Corris
crew-served weapon
Cua Lon, Song
deeds
difference Fourier synthesis
ease of handing
ectopia of urinary bladder
Entebbe
eupnoea
exhaust liquor
fancy schmancy
feathering device
following on
Frettenheim
geminiflorum
geovax
golden-reds
gypsy's warning
h network
high pressure ionization chamber
high stumped budding
ice making machine
instrument panel warning light
intitulation
kastenmeier
Kelowna
key ingredient
kpnc
laken
Lane's kink
Lies have short legs
light red silver ore
magneto- electrophoresis
Mariners' Museum
matrix out of register
mesencephale
metal stud
milonga (argentina)
minimum resistance of heat transfer
misbefall
modelling light
mucsarnok
newmake
non-destructive investigation of tunnel
o-(carboxymethoxy)benzoic acid
outer boarding station
outschemed
paper mill foam oil
Paussidae
pirated software
positional cross talk
pressure transmission medium
pressure vessel
receipt for a loan
reference excursion
reservoir-type power plant
schematic designator
Schliengen
semi-automatic circuit
socia parotidis
stinkbait
sulfarlem
sweet-natured
tautomeric shifts (watson 1965)
tax-fraud
tetragnatha nepiformis
thermal hydrolysis
thoracoabdominal breathing
torsional deformation stress
under speed
uniform acceleration
uphelder
variable-reluctance transducer
wetsuit
wide boiling sample
yodelling
zero-field laser bandwidth