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
16-bit operating system
adverse party
airswallowing
alloxazine
arbitrates
attach major importance to
auto-amputation
Ban Huai Hut
basilicatas
be oriented to
boardinghouses
bradby
cable marks
calcinus vachoni
calmette-gerine
centrifuge stock
cerams
Chahuites
champagne lounges
chlorosis in soybean
clinothem front
co star
coating system for propeller shaft
Coluna
coox
crazy-paved
cryptomycin
cylinder grinding
czerny turner mounting
debuccinate
Dedarryomyces tyrocola
dharmsalas
dispersion reagent
Donus
drawing file
Easby
finger-print map
four-terminal circulator
G.B.S.
galliralluss
Gamm
gas sampling line
gingerbread offices
greater cornua
hardingstones
heavily-armed
HEMTT
husbandings
Hydro-12
infrasonics
interruption of firing
Inyan Kara Creek
jimmying
lip-born
media commission
molecular ion
movable oil plot
natural medicine
noise spectra
non-industrial
Ocaňa, Mesa de
oceanic central water
optical projection reading device
packing segment
parfocal
phylloes
plasmogen(y)
polkissen of Zimmerman
Polygonum tinctorium Lour.
potassium propionate
process time limit
pull side
quarter spring
rearmounted offset pickup press
S-483
salpingometric rupture
Samuelson, Paul
sandwich-type element
Sheep-Associated
shiok
shouldn'ta
space element
spare spring
starter frame through bolt
studio broadcast
syllogismhood
the ballet of chess
theoryof algebraic correspondence
top-down allocation
transformant doctrine
two-dimensional stress system
uncanonicalness
unconspiratorial
unit run time
urocust (or urinary bladder)
venae ophthalmica superior
wall fan
washing equipment
Winooski R.
wyeomyia
year-end agjustment
zone of equiaxial crystals