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
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2-hydroxycamphane
abdominal subcutaneous veins
Adie pupil
affiliative
Alcan aluminium
anamorphotic copying objective
anterior talocrural region
approximation theory of price index number
apron
arc furnace electrode mast
arnold lucius gesells
assymmetry
autostradas
battery-powered calculator
blabby
bonferonni
carpoptosis
centrocapsular paralysis
cercospora ricinella(sacc. et bert.)speg.
CFU-GM
chemical refinery
coefficient of groundwater runoff
coincidencies
common projectile
compositive exploration
cross pane hammer
current collection
cylinder feed
dancin
datura innoxia mill.
disembogued
drosera rot
duck keel
Dysphania ambrosioides
ectasies
edaphic climax community
electrical conductivity of water
endogenous hypertriglyceridemia
faith on
fibula (or calf bone)
flukeworm
flying-boots
geochronic geology
golden marcasite
have got to do something
hexadecimal multiplication
hirsutodynomene spinosa
hoodiecrows
in the place stated
integrated logistics program
invariant plane
kurche
leading edge sawtooth
Longwitton
low-level amplifier
manoeuvrabilities
monthly shipment
mqw waveguide
negative skewness
not fit to be touched with the end of a bargend pole
old countries
once-beautiful
operativenesses
operator control address
order Testacea
panary fermentation
partical velocity
pigeon-feeder's disease
prangley
prealbumin
pretensious
principal optical axis
private notice question
QADS
random-selection model
re-adapts
reed level
repotted
Robert Owen
rosmarinuss
Rowia
Scottishry
setacera laeta
shared-space
side delivery attachment
Sinningia speciosa Hiern.
Solazzi
solere
solids feed line
suckfishes
synchronizing lamp
tax exempt bond
tegumentary system
third-party interventions
unified approach in our external dealings
unvanquishable
via media
wechsler adult intelligence scale (wais)
with reservation
You play the piano beautifully
zeolite process