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
address strip
alfalfa looper
allotrope
AMPELIDAE
antineutrinoes
basoloma
biometricist
birch trees
centos
CF3
chargeing car
compliancies
concern trolled
coppards
cushioning device
dance sport
daysone
deep culture
derivative work rights
detective constable
diagnostic guide
dissociated jaundice
electrical component
elementary ash curve
elliptic function of the first kind
energy speculation
Etropus
even Steven
ferreed switch
ferroelectric substance
fillet-brazed
fish-egg
floating point accelerator
for economy of space
gharba dance (w. india)
group removal
hare away
hearken to
highest occupied molecular orbit
human language technology
JAPHs
jequerity
jinny road
junior keypunch operator
knurred
Kumertauskiy Rayon
Kättilstorp
La Hulpe
lamp working
leucite syenite
linguatuliasis
liquid rouge
map pocket
mark up loans
metal nitride semiconductor
mycorrhizal dependency
new-fangled
numerical word
oil feeding socket
one-women
oort constants
otorrheas
pace-eggs
palletisable
Pangalanes, Can.des
parrals
pbow
pennache -ed
polygender
possessive suffixes
prevey
printed on both sides
Pristimera setulosa
read-out signal
resource-based industry
Rhododendron chrysodoron
right arch
Sco X-1
secondary nucleation
self-remoulding
sexual periodicity
shirt collar corner modelling machine
Solom.
southward equinox
streptolysin O
suitability test
sun-induced
tetanus nascentium
Three Sisters Point
toiletings
transverse gyro frequency
troostitic
tunger tube
unsymmetrically
vintage year
virtual storage extended/advanced functions
water-power plant
willow-patterns
y/i/q
Yunotani
zoot-shirt
zuolin