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
a disaster waiting to happen
a negro
adjustment of commodity
agalorrhea
Al Jafr
antiaircraft gunnery
auburn
beryllium granuloma
body warmer
Bulbophyllum taeniophyllum
butment cheek
carbonyl
celluar reaction
ceramic fueled gas-cooled reactor
ch'ao hsien wu
city residents
coherent carrier system
combi-motor
completionism
Coulomb logarithm
Coulomb's law
deceresol OT
deoxyphorbol
dibenzyl ketone
dickerson
directory caching
division of earning
dullardry
Ekman current meter
euboia
eutetranychus orientalis
exempt credits
fixed-costs
gobble ... up
guerrilla television
Happy Christmases
hatch tackle
hoyles alloy
I spy
indusiform
informers
informings
insulation of windings
interface layer
internal cathodic protection
intrusive messes
Kebbi
keyhole journalism
lazy eights
Leno Giver
liquid level gauge with remote controlled buoyage
maximiser
mechanical-seal
mesentery alkalosis
micro-skirt
muddles up
neutron diffusion cooling phenomenon
normal stop
occipito-central bristle
on fire
order Plumbaginales
P5R
paleo-calcite
phosphohexose isomerase
planishers
PLO
polysyndeton
press-fit wearing bushings
pressed for time
ptotic
pump-and-dump scheme
radar meteorology
radiomarked
ranging-pole, ranging-rod
rate of return on investment capital
relative motion of plate
remontoir
Rhododendron kyawii
roll flattening
row-back
shushings
Sibson's aponeurosis
silica gel leak detector
snow globe
split-range control
statement analysis division
stenocephal(o)us
Stepholine
The Hebrides
thyrolytic sera
tin glaze
to chat up
tri-cultural
trico
twoonie
use authorization
vaux-le-vicomte
verken
weakly hyperbolic operator
whether in custom clearance or not
x-rays characteristic
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