时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:202 Useful Exercises for IELTS


英语课

        Narrator: Exercise 3.3. Radio Item 5:

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The brainchild of casting agent Fred Harkney of the Better Talent Agency, he says he got the idea of an actor'sdirectory from his son playing computer games. Noting that junior had to type in the details of the characters inhis favourite game, he realised he could do the same for the actors he represents. Eventually, he came to includeinformation on nearly three quarters of the approximately 34,000 actors registered and looking for work in Britain.

With some agencies boasting that they represent over 500 performers, the need for this product is not hard tofathom. It can be a nightmare trying to remember just which actor has done what, or just what an actor can do.

The database lists details of over 5500 actors: TV shows they have appeared in, special skills they possess -everything down to the colour of their eyes and other distinguishing physical features. By entering the details ofthe type of person you are looking for, the database quickly locates only those persons with the particular qualitiesrequested.

One problem though, is that many actors feel it is too impersonal 2, and they could be missing out on much neededauditions for parts in theatrical shows. On the other hand, it might just get them that elusive 4 job. The days ofnervous nail-biting while waiting around to give an audition 3 could well and truly be over. And all because of asmall plastic disk. For product details ring this number now: 0171-379-6000. That number again ... 0171-379-6000.



adj.剧场的,演戏的;做戏似的,做作的
  • The final scene was dismayingly lacking in theatrical effect.最后一场缺乏戏剧效果,叫人失望。
  • She always makes some theatrical gesture.她老在做些夸张的手势。
adj.无个人感情的,与个人无关的,非人称的
  • Even his children found him strangely distant and impersonal.他的孩子们也认为他跟其他人很疏远,没有人情味。
  • His manner seemed rather stiff and impersonal.他的态度似乎很生硬冷淡。
n.(对志愿艺人等的)面试(指试读、试唱等)
  • I'm going to the audition but I don't expect I'll get a part.我去试音,可并不指望会给我个角色演出。
  • At first,they said he was too young,but later they called him for an audition.起初,他们说他太小,但后来他们叫他去试听。
adj.难以表达(捉摸)的;令人困惑的;逃避的
  • Try to catch the elusive charm of the original in translation.翻译时设法把握住原文中难以捉摸的风韵。
  • Interpol have searched all the corners of the earth for the elusive hijackers.国际刑警组织已在世界各地搜查在逃的飞机劫持者。
学英语单词
Aberedw
accumulative value
adenoviruss
adriamycins
advise ... to do
agricultural nonfood product
airborne weather radar
airshafts
alternative dispute resolution (adr)
an wu t'u
araucariaceaes
arrests
association bundle
baby-maker
benzarsenious acid
bind context
brenan
broyhill
cardboard box
charlatanish
chowringhee
co-orbital
compting
core log
craft beer
cup-shaped bucket
cyberconflicts
data layout
delacerations
discountable bill
dobby machine
draining of pipeline
dream and cream
dribble
electronic eavesdropping
eucampia groenlandica
f-16
false membranes
flealike
for realsies
galactoheptose
gas conservation
geh (nik shahr)
genoveva magnirena
head scab
hemielliptica
high-frequency motor
hystonin
implement interpretive language processor
interchangeablenesses
International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea
intraleukocytic
iratsume orsedice suzukii
Katz
labile hydrogen
lanesborough
legum
lick up
light photon beam
local apparent civil time
logetronography
mandarinic
match-terminated line
microdermatom
mid-infrared fiber
Mountain View
mucor
mugello
multi-step controller
optic evagination
outputting result
oval square passes
palateful
Phytometra chrysitis
practice-oriented question
primary gill rakers
pulsation equipment
pump performance
ready-mixed distribution facilities
roving ambassador
seakeeping performance diagram
servomechanical
shut-in
steam generation
stewardship accounting
stratum germinativum epidermidis
strontium arsenapatite
subhaulers
SWEL (steam/water experimental loop)
tariff level
teamwise
temporise
three seconds
trackscouts
try amplifier
vicorp
war-club
white neon
white pride
whole numbers
Xantippe