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
abuseability
accounting mechanism
agrotechnology
assurin
atmospheric sulfur dioxide detector
auxiliary bishops
banker's evidence act
bases of costing
Bayerbach
be weak of purpose
blue-jean
bundle homotopy
chizeuilite (andalusite)
combretaceaes
crested wheatgrass
cross-cutting chisel
cryometry
cumulose
damgling
decision making activities
drum chipper
drywipe
eczymatous
elevated station
endoscopic suction valve
exhaust fans
feel right
FFed
flood anchor
forest co-operative society
fuscosclerotic acid
go into debt
green olives
hail growth
have the right to
heartake
heatherlike
hematocyturias
huginess
Hycholine
increasing mean residual life (imrl)
intratransfer price
ivarimod
K4024
Kerry Hd.
Lake City
lash out at
lead covered wiring work
Mehltheuer
metamale
minisat
mixed ester
moisture separator drain tank
muscular tissues
n-heptadecanoic acid
no big
non-numeric
parathiotrophy
parliamentary privilege
paschal
pepich
photodegradative
polling cycle
qualify
ray approximation method
regionists
Roland I.
rolled stock twist box
rotatable feeding shoe
scanning tunnel microscope
scavaging
scrotal swelling
sea-wave
set someone on his mettle
silkhatted
simple growth model
skip tracing
soporiferousness
sovereigns
stator bar insulation
steroid-dependent dermatitis
superior cerebellar peduncle
surveyor's level
thrones
top-up card
trivalent alcohol
true seals
tufas
uk day
ultracheap
unboring
unbrashed
virtual force
water rod
Watergate salad
watertight hatch cover
wave-cut
whewer
woodends
Wular Lake
zero days
zygostat