时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之餐饮娱乐


英语课

 


Writing One’s Memoirs 


Oscar: We’re thrilled that you’ll be publishing your memoir 1 with our company. You’ve had such an interesting life. I’m sure you’ll have lots of titillating 2 stories to tell. 


Liz: Well, my memoir will certainly have a lot of stories about my career: the people I’ve worked with and the kindness I’ve encountered in this industry. 


Oscar: That’s nice, but people buy autobiographical books for the juicy details, the more salacious the better. 


Liz: I was really thinking of focusing on the people who helped me in my career and their selflessness. 


Oscar: But I thought you were interested in writing a tell-all book. Considering how many times you’ve been married and the affairs you’ve had, you must have lots of steamy stories. 


Liz: I don’t want to be telling tales about people I love or once loved. I want to focus on the positive. 


Oscar: You could do that, but your books won’t fly off the shelves without those juicy details. 


Liz: Really? 


Oscar: Really. 


Liz: Maybe I could tell one or two scandalous stories. 


Oscar: Now you’re talking. 


Liz: There was that infamous 3 party where a cat fight broke out between... 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 memoir
n.[pl.]回忆录,自传;记事录
  • He has just published a memoir in honour of his captain.他刚刚出了一本传记来纪念他的队长。
  • In her memoir,the actress wrote about the bittersweet memories of her first love.在那个女演员的自传中,她写到了自己苦乐掺半的初恋。
2 titillating
adj.使人痒痒的; 使人激动的,令人兴奋的v.使觉得痒( titillate的现在分词 );逗引;激发;使高兴
  • Titillating the public now could help sales of Peptide 7 latet on. 现在刺激一下公众,对将来缩氨酸7号的销售可能还会有好处呢。 来自辞典例句
3 infamous
adj.声名狼藉的,臭名昭著的,邪恶的
  • He was infamous for his anti-feminist attitudes.他因反对女性主义而声名狼藉。
  • I was shocked by her infamous behaviour.她的无耻行径令我震惊。
学英语单词
a newspaper
abzyme
adsorbed hydrocarbon
alcea roseas
an old campaigner
apartotel
approval of life-saving appliance
be no joke
becket line
Cambres
Chirita cruciformis
cis-element
cittosis
closed jet return flow tunnel
coloured patches
confectioner's creams
congenital intrinsic factor deficiency
contingency planning facilities list program
counter-demonstrations
cyberfrontiers
Cycas szechuanensis
dark-adaptation butter
decide to do
degrading stream
density index of resources
digital data conversion equipment
discardest
distilled beverage
DPCPX
dromed
eccentric clip
electron donating
electrostatic unit of charge
en creux
equivalent compressive stress
faint-objects
fixed end drum
Fuenterrebollo
fusible glaze
gibberellic acids
gomeral,gomerel, gomeril
hand-lining
Hartia yunnanensis
high yield clone
highwaters
histidinol-phosphatase
Hoptrup
hylozoism
ilioischiac foramen
illuminances
importunately
Incident.
information press
kinsolving
Kiukainen
lead polyneuritis
leading stock
leenhoff
lever-type feedback
levonordefrin
Ligustrum ovalifolium
low cost food
manitowocs
Mann-Whitney U test
message-driven EJB
Mock trading
Monograptus
non-privileged mode
nonfinality
nuclear radiation levelmeter
pariah dog
philias
physics of failure
plained
plane atmospheric wave
prepared hole
protopetroleum
purpura simplex
pyridazine
raggers
ray burst
re dispatch
rectifying relay
resinating
scrub oaks
secondary pipe
shuars
socius criminis
striatula
suberous
supporting back
swab stick
synaptic fissure
taborn
threatenin'
timer request element
troglofauna
true extract
unconvinceability
untermensch
water-dog
witness post