时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2013年ESL之餐饮娱乐


英语课

 


Solving a Mystery 


Jane: You have to watch this movie. It’s so good! 


Hercule: I’m not really into mysteries. 


Jane: But this is a really good whodunit 1


Hercule: I prefer action movies. 


Jane: Listen, the movie gives you plenty of clues, and the detective follows hunch 2 after hunch, lead after lead, but the movie is full of red herrings. Everybody seems to have an alibi 3 and the witnesses aren’t reliable. 


Hercule: I don’t know. It seems kind of confusing to me. I don’t really want to use my brain when I’m watching a movie. 


Jane: But that’s the fun part of it. The true identity of the victim is a mystery, the suspects all have skeletons in their closets, and the detective isn’t what he seems. 


Hercule: Yeah, well... 


Jane: And just when you think you’re getting to the bottom of it, the rug gets pulled out from under you. It keeps you guessing until the very end. Hey, where are you going? 


Hercule: I’m going to find an action movie where all my brain has to do is handle the sensory 4 overload 5


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 whodunit
n.侦探小说(或剧本、影片等)
  • It is not the most promising script for a whodunit.这并不是最有市场前景的侦探小说剧本。
  • I always like the series "Whodunit" by Wei Sili.我一直很喜欢卫斯理系列的推理小说。
2 hunch
n.预感,直觉
  • I have a hunch that he didn't really want to go.我有这么一种感觉,他并不真正想去。
  • I had a hunch that Susan and I would work well together.我有预感和苏珊共事会很融洽。
3 alibi
n.某人当时不在犯罪现场的申辩或证明;借口
  • Do you have any proof to substantiate your alibi? 你有证据表明你当时不在犯罪现场吗?
  • The police are suspicious of his alibi because he already has a record.警方对他不在场的辩解表示怀疑,因为他已有前科。
4 sensory
adj.知觉的,感觉的,知觉器官的
  • Human powers of sensory discrimination are limited.人类感官分辨能力有限。
  • The sensory system may undergo long-term adaptation in alien environments.感觉系统对陌生的环境可能经过长时期才能适应。
5 overload
vt.使超载;n.超载
  • Don't overload the boat or it will sink.别超载,否则船会沉。
  • Large meals overload the digestive system.吃得太饱会加重消化系统的负担。
学英语单词
allottees
amount of inclination
Anna Mary Robertson Moses
apocopating
Bellafolin
Berenice's Hair, Berenice's Locks
bezugs schein
bitthead
blocked layer
blue belly
Brewood
bring back to earth
Cape chestnuts
carbonate platform
carbonate-leach process
chatwin
citrazinic amide
clinical recovery
coil a rope against the sun
conestogo l.
correlated noise
cost-of-living index
crosset
cultural anthropology
cut sb to the quick
data switching center
diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus vaccine
double declining balance
dulce nombre de culmi
end of program
family pristidaes
fifra
fixed assets cost
fuel flow indicator
fullsom
genus agathiss
genus fucuss
grate-firing
group alphabet
gum scissors
Hamilton Cliff
Herman Wouk
Hymenomycetes
infrared dome
Intelsat,INTELSAT
Keynsham
kosmochlor (ureyite)
la'roi
larder beetle
lupeol type
Maengsan
magnesium-lithium alloy
magnetic bight
main memory address
man higher up
maximum package
Mediation of Court
milesia vesparia
monadic operator
Monakow's tract
multifrequency system
multipart bearing
neroli
olsacherite
one-way wave equation
pasteur
policy number
postoral suture
pre-arcing
principle of maximal autonomy
proplasmin
proportional number
pseudomonacidal
pulse signal generator
quasi-public
r-c impedance
samut prakan (paknam)
Schallibaum's solution
sea-of-gates
self-definition
semipermeable
short-range (weather) forecast
shreak
signwriter
sinfulnesses
soil ecosystem sequence
South American fox
space parallax
splashed
stock lender
superblock
swinging mechanical hand
symmetric(al)
thinki
thoroughleaf
tone-unit
vibroshears
waist-heights
wax agate
wedding gifts
where one lives
wire burn-off rate