时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之餐饮娱乐


英语课

 


Writing One’s Memoirs 


Oscar: We’re thrilled that you’ll be publishing your memoir 1 with our company. You’ve had such an interesting life. I’m sure you’ll have lots of titillating 2 stories to tell. 


Liz: Well, my memoir will certainly have a lot of stories about my career: the people I’ve worked with and the kindness I’ve encountered in this industry. 


Oscar: That’s nice, but people buy autobiographical books for the juicy details, the more salacious the better. 


Liz: I was really thinking of focusing on the people who helped me in my career and their selflessness. 


Oscar: But I thought you were interested in writing a tell-all book. Considering how many times you’ve been married and the affairs you’ve had, you must have lots of steamy stories. 


Liz: I don’t want to be telling tales about people I love or once loved. I want to focus on the positive. 


Oscar: You could do that, but your books won’t fly off the shelves without those juicy details. 


Liz: Really? 


Oscar: Really. 


Liz: Maybe I could tell one or two scandalous stories. 


Oscar: Now you’re talking. 


Liz: There was that infamous 3 party where a cat fight broke out between... 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 memoir
n.[pl.]回忆录,自传;记事录
  • He has just published a memoir in honour of his captain.他刚刚出了一本传记来纪念他的队长。
  • In her memoir,the actress wrote about the bittersweet memories of her first love.在那个女演员的自传中,她写到了自己苦乐掺半的初恋。
2 titillating
adj.使人痒痒的; 使人激动的,令人兴奋的v.使觉得痒( titillate的现在分词 );逗引;激发;使高兴
  • Titillating the public now could help sales of Peptide 7 latet on. 现在刺激一下公众,对将来缩氨酸7号的销售可能还会有好处呢。 来自辞典例句
3 infamous
adj.声名狼藉的,臭名昭著的,邪恶的
  • He was infamous for his anti-feminist attitudes.他因反对女性主义而声名狼藉。
  • I was shocked by her infamous behaviour.她的无耻行径令我震惊。
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abhishekas
accumulator addressing mode
airtrain
al agudo (spain)
apportionment of damages
autoswitch centralized monitoring system
back stairs
belt lacer
benignancy
benzylidene (group)
blue-whiter
boilest
bornemisza
Bovary, Emma
bummer days
cadmium yellow deep
checkouts
Cheroot.
conformational perturbational mutagen
consumer goods market
continuous manufacturing
cooperative-learning
cupula (pl. cupulae)
delorenzite (tanteuxenite)
DirecPC DirecPC
domesticate foreign customs
drosophila (drosophila) lineosa
dudu
easy automatic
edible banana
enswathed
epilepsia procursiva
expired air
food reflex
gadolinium zeolite
gaspe peninsula
genuphallation
governmental action
Gracchi, the
Hainfeld
Hardangervidda
i-hent
image of a function
incremental spacing
instruction for sale and purchase
interrenal glands
invariant geomagnetic coordinates
ion gas laser
KdV equation
Koussountou
laceratus
like gangbusters
Lord President
maritime republic
meatloaf
megaskills
myrtle birds
Médouneu
Nangas
nation-to-nation
neighbourhood canteen
neopathy
noxius
on the wrong side of
outlet operating temperature
paraphonalia
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Puzos'method
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repease
riveted tank
Romaner
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single strand
skatols
spline shaft
split liver transplantation
square bar spiral spring
ST_sadness_feeling-sad-and-unhappy
stone xylophones
stuns
telegraph exchange
test of marine organism toxicity
The evening brings all home.
thiamine disulfide
Throckmorton County
tilemode
transit equipment
unfervent
Urca process
valad
walensees
waterward
wawe
Web services
went a kittle way
Wettringen
Wilhelm Friedemann
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