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。
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a bider
accustom
air position indicator (api)
anti-PR
articulated tower mooring system
audi-
axonotmeses
bibliognost
broad-beam absorption
broadness of band
casing cleaning
catch handle
catechisings
Cleupin
combustion shock
compoundwound
control flight
cooling arrangement
copal painting medium
cross-flooding fitting
cross-pliest
dacryocystostomy
dedapper
defence in lawsuit
differential pulley
dollarwise
dromeys
Echinops pseudosetifer
epithelial nodule
error checking
exjunction
fibular articular facet
flouncies
Glycerosteril
hagiography
high speed digital subscriber line
hot fixing
husbandress
hydrodemetalation
hypocentral location
identification tape
illicentiate
indirect bill
karyolysis
Langmuir trough
lift(elevator)
LLLP (low leakage loading pattern)
longitudinal vibration damper
lower closure
maintenance control center
medial arteriole of retina
methenyl chloride
misphrase
mixed breathing
mtTERF
mucin virulence
myhre
nausea epidemica
NavierkStokes equation
night caps
non metallic lubricant
Peer to Peer Protocol
perpetual check
pivaloyloxymethyl
product level design
public funds
radio range receiver
radiosymmetric
record level specifications
rhinorrhoeas
Roda de Bara
Rubber City
scarlet oaks
schalstein
screw-cap tightener
sectors per track
serious disease
ship with large freeboard
shunting capacitor
soy isoflavone
specializers
statement of mercantile financial condition
steamer duck
storage factor
structure of ring
theory of limited memory storage
threshold rule
thyreophoras
time-stamp
transmision countershaft
ts'ui
ulitrbil
unattackable
underwroot
upset a balance
upward-closing slide gate
vertical axis windmill
Volnay
warreporting
water-wings
whippering campaign
wilful inflation of prices