时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:2013年ESL之日常生活


英语课

 


Believing in Predictions 


Armond: I hope that this new year will bring me better luck. 


Patricia: You can find that out easily enough. My astrologer says... 


Armond: Hold on. You consult an astrologer? You really believe in that nonsense? 


Patricia: It’s not nonsense and, yes, I believe in it. I like getting predictions about the future and knowing what is in the stars for me. 


Armond: Astrologers are charlatans 2 and what they tell their customers is phony. They make it all up and tell people what they want to hear. 


Patricia: I don’t know how you can say that. The horoscope for my sign each day gives me warnings and helps me avoid mistakes. And when I have big decisions to make, I go for a reading. The guidance I get is invaluable 3


Armond: You’re too smart to be taken in by con 1 artists who style themselves as mystics. It’s all smoke and mirrors. 


Patricia: You’re wrong. I’ll give you an example. My horoscope today said that an unpleasant person will try to shake my beliefs. It said I should just walk away. 


Armond: Hey, where are you going? 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 con
n.反对的观点,反对者,反对票,肺病;vt.精读,学习,默记;adv.反对地,从反面;adj.欺诈的
  • We must be fair and consider the reason pro and con.我们必须公平考虑赞成和反对的理由。
  • The motion is adopted non con.因无人投反对票,协议被通过。
2 charlatans
n.冒充内行者,骗子( charlatan的名词复数 )
  • There are lots of phonies and charlatans in the financial newsletter business. 干金融通讯这一行的人中间不乏骗子和吹牛大王。 来自辞典例句
  • But wicked people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived. 但是恶人和行诈术的人却越来越坏,他们迷惑人,也必受人迷惑。 来自互联网
3 invaluable
adj.无价的,非常宝贵的,极为贵重的
  • A computer would have been invaluable for this job.一台计算机对这个工作的作用会是无法估计的。
  • This information was invaluable to him.这个消息对他来说是非常宝贵的。
学英语单词
a pearl of wisdom
acidaemic
AIRCO cutting method
Alder, Kurt
Altamura
ammonium dihydrogen orthoarsenate
ate in
automatic opening
basic operator control command
bauhinia type
bedunging
begrudgers
best range cruise speed
board walks
californium oxide
capo tasto
carbonylative
chanar steppe
chemically-plated tape
conditioned vascular reflex
containment flooding system
context of justification
default notice
dispersal of rail gaps
donkey stitching machine
double-stacked
down the line
DTE
emerald spodumene
ernste
Eržvilkas
eyepiece cross-hair
Favignana, I.
Festuca fascinata
ffyps
film type condensation
five pointer
flexural compressive strength
fractalesque
francis-francis
frontal receding plane
Ginsheim
given the shaft
glass-cloth insulation
grown junction photocell
gulland
haworth representation
higenamine
Home Kit
Hunter's membrane
ice kachang
immunological effect of irradiation
internal auditory veins
irrotationally
Keldysh theory
King Camp Gilette
kinomere
kosman
laies on the table
lanceol
lest should
light amplifier
major gene (mather 1941)
medium isolation
micro-encapsulated diet
mosto
muwen
newspaper critic
Phyllanthinae
pneumatic analog computer
polymorphic gene
primary copy locking
reference grade standardization
retrying
rodomontade
saurognathous palate
schule
search and rescue coordinating communication
semifixed variable resistor
septilateral
Seti II
sissifies
sits about
snowproofs
spina scapul?
splenotomies
staphylomycin
thingummy
tool adjustment
tool drum
travelling inspector
trunk vagotomy
under bolting
underground storage of nuclear waste
upspeak
Vesilahti
vesper bell
washing-up
wite-out
worklives
Zebra time