时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:2013年ESL之日常生活


英语课

 


Cheering Someone Up


Eleanor: Isn’t it a beautiful day? The sun is shinning; the birds are singing. It’s good to be alive! 


Porter: Okay, Pollyanna, go spread good cheer somewhere else. 


Eleanor: What’s wrong with you? You must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed. 


Porter: I’m just having a bad day – no, make that a bad month. Nothing is going my way. 


Eleanor: Cheer up! Every cloud has a silver lining 1 and it’s no use crying over spilled milk. 


Porter: Spare me your platitudes 2, and let me wallow in my own misery 3


Eleanor: I can’t do that. If your work isn’t going well, then practice makes perfect. You’ll just do better next time. 


Porter: It’s not my work. 


Eleanor: Is it your girlfriend? If your girlfriend isn’t being nice to you then there are plenty of fish in the sea. Don’t you see? Whatever the problem is, it’s not the end of the world. 


Porter: My biggest problem right now is easy to fix. 


Eleanor: How? 


[Door slams.] 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 lining
n.衬里,衬料
  • The lining of my coat is torn.我的外套衬里破了。
  • Moss makes an attractive lining to wire baskets.用苔藓垫在铁丝篮里很漂亮。
2 platitudes
n.平常的话,老生常谈,陈词滥调( platitude的名词复数 );滥套子
  • He was mouthing the usual platitudes about the need for more compassion. 他言不由衷地说了些需要更加同情之类的陈腔滥调。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He delivered a long prose full of platitudes. 他发表了一篇充满陈词滥调的文章。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
3 misery
n.痛苦,苦恼,苦难;悲惨的境遇,贫苦
  • Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦。
  • He has rescued me from the mire of misery.他把我从苦海里救了出来。
学英语单词
alkali-resistant beaker
aphrophoras
automatic colour separation device
baer stapler
bandwidth hog
barkas effect
bedrockrockbottom
beer muscles
Beethoven exploder
bloodysputum
borduring
boron carbide fiber
brittlebush
buyable
centre control board
cereals and oilseeds processing machinery
chilladors
circuit contact
close one's ears to
collalto (hochgall)
come to town
constult
contact icing
cordless terminal
cornigera
country ham
cross-referencing system
deadener
decision for context free grammar
delocalized pi-bond
department hour rate method
dirt collector
double sampling mode
Dugong idae
folliott
free gas cap
gamma-function
generalized Green's function
genus hippocrepiss
giovans
give one's word of hono u r
gold auction
Gouin accumulator
gruard rail
high-titer
home sweet home
horizontal parabola dc control voltage
HSAM
hydropneumatic recoil system
imperialities
inflow entrance
interest-rate futures
kiddywinkle, kiddywinky
lattice continuity
limit of rollability
lock-in-clause
long-wavelength region
mabels
maugein
Maughold Head
mazonia
miscreates
moblog
moist cough
ne-yo
neo Impressionism
noncommitally
nuclear fuel fabrication plant
numinen
oil cells
oil rigs
onkilonite
organiza
orifice-metering coefficient
pay his attentions to
pedestrian barrier
physician-patient
Populus lancifolia
premium and bond issuance expense
printed works
qualified audit certificate
randonne
raw wounds
real analytic fiber bundle
rotating field type alternator
runaway collision
Salix gyirongensis
secure against
share the booty
side-tracking
silent agitators
skysurfing
socket base
Socratics
solanum wendlandiis
southern chernozem
squeezed fold
Stadol
valvular
wet-ink pen
without success
zone of pollution