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
a short bit
achievement need theory
aecidium securinegae
andreaeas
anode effect terminating
as-suchness
automatic latch
balance wave
bare-metal hypervisor
Bascinet.
boil clear
boring stick
Bromosulfonphthalein
Budū', Sabkhat al
caldereta
california false morels
Chevron Corporation
Chloronitropropane
chronic phosphorous poisoning
Clairaut's formula
collections receivable for customers
compatible process
crown bar link pin
debris
decapsulated
Dekani
deny ... to
depth charge pistol
derrick bitt
diastematenteria
distoangularly
double entendre
electromedicine
environmental electromagnetics
file declaration
fire resisting cable
flare cartridge
forced draft kiln
forcingly
Free Methodist
fuel colloidal
fuel-utilization factor
geng
give one's adhesion to
Gracenote MusicID
handmaids
handy-pandy
hemispherical-pyrheliometer
hunting mine
hydrogen peroxide bleaching
inspection work
intertill
ipsuss
ivi
JCSS
jerbil
Joan Rivers
kernelized security
korean drama
leased circuit service
leave things to chance
logion
mcdonnell-douglas
mortar-and-pestle
moulding sander
mouth - to - mouth resuscitation
nitrogen-fixing bacteria
Nozaki-jima
panel construction
pendulum astrolable
platyphyllos
power line fittings
press-agantry
primary cell membrane
pulse transformator
rebraces
recklessly caused loss
rescissory action
semi-normal
semiapex angle
sicariuss
sodium alkylamidosulfonate
solar power generation
spark explosion metnod
spinal curvature
spinulism
splendicant
stave of thumb
stereoblind
storage display tube
subsoil flow
super-cautious
symmetric bipolar transistor
system study
takke
thussocke
top-ranking
trinchet
triozids
undergraduatish
vacuum control unit
woolcock