时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:2013年ESL之日常生活


英语课

 


Believing in Predictions 


Armond: I hope that this new year will bring me better luck. 


Patricia: You can find that out easily enough. My astrologer says... 


Armond: Hold on. You consult an astrologer? You really believe in that nonsense? 


Patricia: It’s not nonsense and, yes, I believe in it. I like getting predictions about the future and knowing what is in the stars for me. 


Armond: Astrologers are charlatans 2 and what they tell their customers is phony. They make it all up and tell people what they want to hear. 


Patricia: I don’t know how you can say that. The horoscope for my sign each day gives me warnings and helps me avoid mistakes. And when I have big decisions to make, I go for a reading. The guidance I get is invaluable 3


Armond: You’re too smart to be taken in by con 1 artists who style themselves as mystics. It’s all smoke and mirrors. 


Patricia: You’re wrong. I’ll give you an example. My horoscope today said that an unpleasant person will try to shake my beliefs. It said I should just walk away. 


Armond: Hey, where are you going? 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 con
n.反对的观点,反对者,反对票,肺病;vt.精读,学习,默记;adv.反对地,从反面;adj.欺诈的
  • We must be fair and consider the reason pro and con.我们必须公平考虑赞成和反对的理由。
  • The motion is adopted non con.因无人投反对票,协议被通过。
2 charlatans
n.冒充内行者,骗子( charlatan的名词复数 )
  • There are lots of phonies and charlatans in the financial newsletter business. 干金融通讯这一行的人中间不乏骗子和吹牛大王。 来自辞典例句
  • But wicked people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived. 但是恶人和行诈术的人却越来越坏,他们迷惑人,也必受人迷惑。 来自互联网
3 invaluable
adj.无价的,非常宝贵的,极为贵重的
  • A computer would have been invaluable for this job.一台计算机对这个工作的作用会是无法估计的。
  • This information was invaluable to him.这个消息对他来说是非常宝贵的。
学英语单词
absorbing probability
accumulator registers
agricultural ply steel
aldwyches
alligator pear
alpha elimination
aluminium door anodised in bronze
antiaphrodisiac
arched wing
Atkalization
automatic amplitude control circuit
biconic swelling
Black Bear Island L.
bookabler
cast blade
catch-and-shoot
chaykend (dprabak)
Christmas star
code breaking
colo(u)r balance control
conical pulley
convince of
coop
cope match-plate pattern
cultural medium
decision value number
demonocracy
Dendrobium aduncum
dental transitional period
dribble of urine
drop of water
dust-handling plant
dust-mop
enterogenic albumosuria
family of characteristic curve
fireclays
grassamer
group procedures
higher-order predicate
holding tank equipment
homolids
honghoensis
in-triangle
index of reversion
integrated policy analysis
Jim Crow car
Kajikazawa
keyloggers
kinkiest
lead bullet
Leskovian
Leucothoe editorum
light angle of approach
lis
live on borrowed time
loop the loop
mcconachie
MGF
minor ridge
Mitchellsburg
mitsumata
mulling room
nanoobjects
noise-modulated jamming
null pick-up
ODZ
Ongarue
Otranto, Str.of
overdorne
oxysulphide
paleoclimatic record
pallet number
permutations
phase shift oscillator
phosphoroclastic cleavage
pictorial pattern recognition
pressure spring
profound retardation
pyritise
reach in freezer
repalletized
root partition
rub one's eyes
selvyt cloth
settlement term
shock-rock
short grown malt
solid joint
solids-delivery valve
specific screen
stratigraphic time
subendothelial coat
tea families
time-space dispersive
translating equipment
Trichosanthes hylonoma
Valli-Ritter law
value-adding
vertex spike
wameful
work committee