时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:跟着美剧练发音


英语课
ACT 1   Once they understand, they’re fine with it.
     
Interviewer: I see you have a B.A (n.文学学士学位) from Bradley University. That’s...uh...in Illinois (伊利诺斯州), isn’t it?
 
Brad: Yes, ma’am.
 
Interviewer: Graduated cum laude (以优等成绩毕业). High recommendations 1. Your student teaching evals (教学评估) are outstanding. [非常满意] Excellent. What made you decide to go into teaching?
 
Brad: It’s all I’ve wanted to be. I feel like I was born to teach.
 
Interviewer: Why choose Atlanta? I mean... Missouri is your home.
 
Brad: Yeah, no, I’m a...I think I’m thinking of becoming a Braves (即Bradley Braves, Bradley大学校队) fan, so...ah, Georgia (佐治亚州) honors (v. 认可) my Illinois teaching certificate (n. 证书). Plus (conj. 另外) I fell in love with Atlanta when I worked down here as a camp counselor 2 (夏令营辅导员). So I live here now. So does my dad and my step-mom.
 
Interviewer: [开始注意到Brad的症状,有些尴尬] Well…it’s nice to have a family here to...give you support.
 
Brad: Maybe we should talk about the elephant (n.大象).
 
Interviewer: Elephant?
 
Brad: In the room, my Tourette’s.
 
Interviewer: [严肃] No, The Americans with disabilities Act (美国残疾人法案) doesn’t allow me to ask...
 
Brad: I know. But, I would like to tell you, just like I tell the kids in my classes. See, I explain to them that it’s a brain thing that causes me to make strange noises. They’re like... sneezes (v. 打喷嚏), irrepressible (adj.无法控制的) when you have to. You have to.
 
Interviewer: [怀疑又好奇] How do they react?
 
Brad: Once they understand, they’re fine with it (他们接受了). It’s never caused a problem in the classroom. All I want is a chance. Just get me the interviews and let me prove to them that I can do the job. The Americans with disabilities Act says I’m entitled 3 to (有...的正当权利) a chance.

1 recommendations
n.推荐( recommendation的名词复数 );推荐信;正式建议;提议
  • The board completely disregarded my recommendations. 董事会完全无视我的建议。
  • Recommendations from two previous clients helped to establish her credibility. 两位以前的客户的推荐有助于确立她的诚信度。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 counselor
n.顾问,法律顾问
  • The counselor gave us some disinterested advice.顾问给了我们一些无私的忠告。
  • Chinese commercial counselor's office in foreign countries.中国驻国外商务参赞处。
3 entitled
有资格的
  • You will be entitled to your pension when you reach 65. 你到65岁就有资格享受养老金。
  • He entitled us to enter his office at any time. 他授权给我们可以随时进入他的办公室。
学英语单词
3-aminomethylene-bis
abjad numerals
abstract file
Algren, Nelson
angritic
barium soap base grease
base drag correction
base-line equation
baulkline
be in keeping with
beit ed-dine
beta-msh
black smith
bluenose (of horse)
Bordj Messouda
british asianness
burgeant
Capsicum L.
Chavignon
chunkable
crank shaft defect
crotchet rest
cusp angle
cystopeltid
daily load fluctuating
dead-stop rail
deentrainment tower
DEROTREMES
dip-slip offset
distrain from
double-prism square
drip phleboclysis
DRMD
Durhams fermentation tube
elastic coefficient of transportation
elongation of thumb
environmental isolation
extended guarantee
facial crest
facultative regeneration
four-strokes
geometric axis
grid-type concave
half-cooked
hemiazygous vein
Herdman Seamount
hindu numerals
hot-seats
hyperjumps
illeis shensiensis
installation plan
It cost an arm and a leg
keelhale
knocks
laying-ups
marker sweep generator
Milinda-panha
misadaptations
multiplex projector
needless to say
neutron moisture meter
non-symmetric adjustment
nongrammatical
objectivizers
Ogilvie syndrome
oilfilled
ompbalophlebitis
once daily
open-air temperature of ships
ophitoxemia
panel strip
paraaortic
Paraplatin
path command
payment of fees
picket fence reticle
plasma temperature
potassium trithiocarbonate
printing of mezzotints
puopulsion plant
R. N. V. R.
radioniobium
Saussurea lhunzhubensis
schorlite
sensitivity of relay protection
shallow-pocket free settling classifier
someone wouldn't touch something with a ten-foot pole
statistic design value
stockleigh
subsequent marriage
tank lubrication
target lamp
terry-hoeffding test
theogonists
tickit
trophy-room
turbojet engine
unpuritanically
whatley
wilting per cent
zigzag star connection