时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之餐饮娱乐


英语课

 


Becoming a Spy 


Vaughn: You’ve been reading that novel for hours. What is it? 


Sydney: It’s a spy novel and it’s really good. It’s about a man who is recruited by the C.I.A. to work in counterintelligence doing code breaking, but he becomes embroiled 1 in the world of espionage 2


Vaughn: That sounds exciting. 


Sydney: Yeah, he’s sent on a mission to infiltrate 3 a foreign spy organization and to feed them misinformation. I’d love to be a spy. 


Vaughn: You wouldn’t really want to live the life of a spy, would you? You’d have to live a double life, not being able to tell your friends and family that you’re an operative. 


Sydney: I wouldn’t care if I could go on clandestine 4 missions to thwart 5 and sabotage 6 the enemy. Working for the C.I.A. would be a dream come true. 


Vaughn: You’d have to keep a lot of secrets, not divulging 7 classified information. 


Sydney: Yes, so? 


Vaughn: Loose lips sink ships. 


Sydney: What are you trying to say? 


Vaughn: Well, no offense 8 but I think your cover would be blown after about five minutes! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 embroiled
adj.卷入的;纠缠不清的
  • He became embroiled in a dispute with his neighbours. 他与邻居们发生了争执。
  • John and Peter were quarrelling, but Mary refused to get embroiled. 约翰和彼得在争吵,但玛丽不愿卷入。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 espionage
n.间谍行为,谍报活动
  • The authorities have arrested several people suspected of espionage.官方已经逮捕了几个涉嫌从事间谍活动的人。
  • Neither was there any hint of espionage in Hanley's early life.汉利的早期生活也毫无进行间谍活动的迹象。
3 infiltrate
vt./vi.渗入,透过;浸润
  • The teacher tried to infiltrate her ideas into the children's minds.老师设法把她的思想渗透到孩子们的心中。
  • It can infiltrate as much as 100 kilometers into enemy territory at night.可以在夜间深入敌领土100千米。
4 clandestine
adj.秘密的,暗中从事的
  • She is the director of clandestine operations of the CIA.她是中央情报局秘密行动的负责人。
  • The early Christians held clandestine meetings in caves.早期的基督徒在洞穴中秘密聚会。
5 thwart
v.阻挠,妨碍,反对;adj.横(断的)
  • We must thwart his malevolent schemes.我们决不能让他的恶毒阴谋得逞。
  • I don't think that will thwart our purposes.我认为那不会使我们的目的受到挫折。
6 sabotage
n.怠工,破坏活动,破坏;v.从事破坏活动,妨害,破坏
  • They tried to sabotage my birthday party.他们企图破坏我的生日晚会。
  • The fire at the factory was caused by sabotage.那家工厂的火灾是有人蓄意破坏引起的。
7 divulging
v.吐露,泄露( divulge的现在分词 )
  • The soldier was shot for divulging the plans to the enemy. 这个士兵因向敌人泄密被击毙。 来自互联网
  • Gives itself a small seat. Divulging heartily. 给自己一个小位子。尽情的宣泄。 来自互联网
8 offense
n.犯规,违法行为;冒犯,得罪
  • I hope you will not take any offense at my words. 对我讲的话请别见怪。
  • His words gave great offense to everybody present.他的发言冲犯了在场的所有人。
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a graduate student
agathomyia hardyi
air catering
anomalocarid
anti-aircraft rocket
antiretinal
aposematic color
auger beetle
battles of gettysburg
be connected by
bergslagite
boilersuit
boneyards
bosutinib
botment
bottom of the league
brad pitt
brominations
bufochrome
calcareous sandstone
calculagraph
carcassed
cash merger
chronotron
Clerodendrum bungei
compensating sac
crystalisation
decipheress
default folder
deformation-free zone
Diracian
dosing device for earth
duraos
eastern equine encephalomyelitis virus
Eurovision link
fouquets
gazwelching
general purpose data management system
go off
grandiosest
hyppogriffs
infrared emission spectrum
inside wall
intermittent service area
international prefix
iterated concatenation
jaw-breaking
jrs
junior party
lateral error of traverse
lean fast combustion
light sussex chicken
Litsea euosma
loop lock
make sheep's eyes at
marker-pens
melting off
moviestars
murder in the second degree
Nanocnide
Neoria Husainpur
net dry salt retention
nickel (electro)plating
non participating preferred stock
normal-voltage rating
nuclear sexing of cells
ostpolitiks
polychresty
potentiometer group
pre-sales
preocular
prophetation
quick-opening device
rail laying machine with cantilever
reduced bundle
report on internal control
revolutionary movement
rotary electrical servo
roundspeople
season-pass
sine wave sources
Sixmilebridge
soft access point
Solanum erianthum
spotting hoist
spouter
stenocephaly
Stephania Lour.
stohl
stroke of punch
strong connectivity problem
sunken rowlock
Suqutra(Socotra)
tatrai
tax on added value
time case
tritangent plane
ungentled
webge valve
work up an appetite
wrinkled skin
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