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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'Askar, Ra's
a plain jane
Aedes lineatopennis
al-Qur'an
Alexander's Ragtime Band
alphanumeric displays
altitude selsyn
be lacking in
blackburn printer
blowjobbing
bonangs
boring into
business process discovery
Calvert Vaux
casselmen
Cassidy
chefwatchers
cittren
clume
consignment delivery
cruddy
curarises
cut-off rigidity
data syntax
devapamil
direct addressing
Donnacona
drissel
drug sensitivity test
elastic sock
Elatostema polystachyoides
emulsion
FAIHA
field attribute definition
finger slate
flotation test
forged part
format translate
gipsy's warning
gnophomyia (idiocera) metatarsata
halomorphic
has been and gone and
head selection method
heavy date
heavy intensity
ikpi
integral tip shround
interior tension
interruption status word
Irish mafia
isolated generating plant
isomira formosana
Kerr cell
lead coated metal
lens matrix
linear-input tape
Mancilik
medlab
microgramme
myometer
NECORE
neonatal purpura fulminans
non-assented bond
operational hazard analysis
Oxethazine
papulopustular syphilide
petro lift
pitt
plastochronic changes
pleiner
portilla
propeller suction side
quantization of circulation
radio communication regulation
rock chips
romthy
Rubus taiwanianus
santiaguine
schistocoelia
self-asserting
sequential count test
sex-text
sharon fruit
single rib
single-heterostructure junction laser
spitzenburg
steam air-heater
sticking points
straight line crane
sub-concepts
superseded by x
surface case
titration in nonaqeous solvent
twisted nematic liquid crystal display
ultracapacitors
Vlaminck, Maurice de
weddinger
What goes?
which way to turn
work rate
x-
Zorbonomycin