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。
学英语单词
Admiralty Arch
aminimides
Amvrosiyivka(Donetsko-Amvrosiyevka)
apparent cohesion
avenanthramide
bilge suction
button tab
carpet pad
carsberg
Catita
clarkes creek
coarser partition
colloquialisation
complishment
condenser checker
d.j.f.
decussatio fontinalis
demme
dkyd.
docking strain
dominance through a coalition
ecoawareness
errand of mercy
feakes
file interrogation program
fill up the time
Follega
generous discount
grand daughter
grillage analogy
group character
hand acupuncture
Herschelian
industrial autoclave
international shipping industry
isugs
karawanken (karavanke )
Kaveri
Laminaria japonica Aresch.
leaf casting
likeness
lindner
Loffler boiler
luminous efficiency (of radiation)
luna moths
magazine loading camera
mainstreet
mask alignment microscope
membrane invagination
michilimackinac
Minuartia
misconverting
Morse five-unit printer
nameplays
neighbouring rights
nylon fiber
obligate psychrophile
ohias
oil rectifier
oiliness degree
panaritium
periodization, periodisation
perniciousnesses
phase comparison carrier differential system
phenacetylaniline
pifflers
plate capacitor
Poa raduliformis
polycross
pre-coateds
precious opal
preliminary traverse
pseudo-random test specification
pteria dendronephthya
puerperal psychogenia
racket court
radiophosphorus
ratte
re-modelled
Reiche Ebrach
rereplicating
retroactive application
roboan
sea lamprey
see the colour of someone's money
seedings
single-acting disk harrow
spherical-earth factor
spring knockout
Strimon
Studies on Halogenated Aliphatic Compounds
thick coal seam
two-tip torch
vestibular test
vouching in
waterside area
weak grade
web-member system
white communicating branch
wind-PV system
woe betide someone