时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之旅行交通购物


英语课

 


Reading Online Reviews 


Marisa: When we go to our favorite vacation spot in two months, let’s stay at a different hotel. 


Oscar: I like the hotel we always stay at. It’s in a convenient location and we’re already familiar with it. 


Marisa: That’s just it. It’s tried and true, but there’s no novelty and excitement in staying in the same place year after year. 


Oscar: I don’t need novelty. 


Marisa: Let’s just consider some of these other hotels I’ve been reading about. They are very highly ranked and their ratings are very good. 


Oscar: You’re putting strangers’ reviews above our own experience? 


Marisa: Of course not, but just look at this hotel. It received three stars out of four, and it has a lot of pros 2


Oscar: Let me see that. It also has some cons 1, such as being noisy and pricy. 


Marisa: Okay, maybe that isn’t the best example. I didn’t notice that they got dinged on those things, but let’s look at a few others. 


Oscar: I’ll keep an open mind, but I’m dubious 3 about online reviews. I take everything I read with a grain of salt. The only people who post reviews are those who love it or hate it. 


Marisa: I’ll just find a hotel that everyone loves. 


Oscar: And that doesn’t break the bank? 


Marisa: Right. 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 cons
n.欺骗,骗局( con的名词复数 )v.诈骗,哄骗( con的第三人称单数 )
  • The pros and cons cancel out. 正反两种意见抵消。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • We should hear all the pros and cons of the matter before we make a decision. 我们在对这事做出决定之前,应该先听取正反两方面的意见。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 pros
abbr.prosecuting 起诉;prosecutor 起诉人;professionals 自由职业者;proscenium (舞台)前部n.赞成的意见( pro的名词复数 );赞成的理由;抵偿物;交换物
  • The pros and cons cancel out. 正反两种意见抵消。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • We should hear all the pros and cons of the matter before we make a decision. 我们在对这事做出决定之前,应该先听取正反两方面的意见。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 dubious
adj.怀疑的,无把握的;有问题的,靠不住的
  • What he said yesterday was dubious.他昨天说的话很含糊。
  • He uses some dubious shifts to get money.他用一些可疑的手段去赚钱。
学英语单词
accelerator valve
adaptive control sequence
adjacent subarea
adjustable louvers
al-huda
alkylbenzene sulfonates
amantadine hydrochloride
amyopathic
angular altitude
Anserma
anti-urbanism
apportioned tax
aqueous slkali
atropine conjunctivitis
bark coppice
Bax, Sir Arnold Edward Trevor
binding agreement
blade edge
Bocota
Bouillaud's metallic tinkle
Brown-Sequard's injections
Brussels classification
c transformation
cags
cancer staging
catholica
cationic compatibility
central audit agency
competitive firm supply curve
contact carrier
cylinder block
data policy
destrouble
diffraction breakup
distance bolt
dorsal median sulcus (or dorsal median groove)
dorsulfas
double drift region avalanche diode
Dow-Jones 30 industrial average index
Dublikanskiy, Pereval
ecumenicisms
electro-dynamic loud-speaker
external stimuli
flamencos
flooding damage
French Guinea
giftwrapping
glyphomitrium formosanum
gonadopathy
half-grabens
hand tree
haul ... up
heater shield
homolecithal egg
Jabulon
job-ready
Kawit Str.
kompromat
konicas
law-making treaty
lollygags
lunar excursion craft
maddon
madreporiform
manganese-Zoisite
manufacturing order
marginal emission reduction cost (merc)
mekbib
metachemistry
Mindoro Str.
moraller
myo-inositol
organismal ecology
overshoot clipper
primary transmission feeder
puds
rachiocyphosis
Ramygala
Rawene
reboisement
rerouting
runaway speed operating condition
satirizers
semi-coke
showed around
slow climate system
spectrographies
subdivision Gnetophytina
subprimest
Sulfapyrazinemethoxyine
syngenetic(primary)corcretion
target design
telemarketers
teleodendron
test operation condition
theory of continuous media
thermal inactivation point
train radio
transvenom
uncharacterised
user charges
variable mass