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 mountain of flesh
ability-to-pay
abrasive etch
aerological diagram
arginine picrate
bottleneck process
caprisant pulse
carrier's option
circumferential joints
co-reflexed
colour staining
consent searches
Correggio
cranioplasty
debug support system interface
descending mesocolon
desert dry valley
detatched
difluorides
dirty dancing
dunmore east
energy period
ensheathments
erharts
ethylene glycol coolant
extended port
family pempheridaes
Fasciculus thalamicus
fleshy fruit
frequency response curve
freshwater allowance
fully expand
function generating hybrids
FWBA
gaffered silk
genus lecanopteriss
gross requirements
HBN
heterodyne oscillator
hyperkinesthesia
immolation
internal integration tools
intertransversarii posteriores cervicis
iron-cored type instrument
kopitars
law of commercial transactions
line admittance
lutjanus blackfordis
malware detection
medical opinion
ment-
mine track devices
minionness
mulard
multisystem
national dance troupe of korea
new concept english
not be in the business of doing
nuclear field
Parmenas
plant planter
pleochromatism
plug cone gage
polymer surfactant
primary system
redgums
reenlisted
regional network
replacement hypothesis
revatrine
ridescent virus disease
Robertson Ra.
roofs of the mouth
rotating stop
sail with the stream
sea zone
seasonal business fluctuation
selective solubility diffusion
shelf plate
smoke glass
stiegler
sukhozanet
summer course
symmetric dyadic
tag sequence
taste-test
tens-
tetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase
tetrawickmannite
thumbpads
time compression coding
Torrelapaja
transaction scheduling
trialling
unparadoxically
unresearchability
upper category temperature
urate thesaurismosis
verge on
water yield of mine
wear sleeve
woodsy