时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:202 Useful Exercises for IELTS


英语课

        Narrator: Exercise 3.3. Radio Item 5:

   Welcome to 'Software World' - bringing you the very latest information on what is currently available on CD-ROM. Are you a director or producer looking for an unusual actor to play a part in a new movie project, or withthat special look for a new commercial on TV? OK. The usual procedure would be to contact a theatrical 1 agencywho would try and sell you the idea of using one of the actors listed on their books. Books? Too old-fashionedfor you? Then get yourself a copy of this latest electronic database called 'The Electronic Curtain'.

The brainchild of casting agent Fred Harkney of the Better Talent Agency, he says he got the idea of an actor'sdirectory from his son playing computer games. Noting that junior had to type in the details of the characters inhis favourite game, he realised he could do the same for the actors he represents. Eventually, he came to includeinformation on nearly three quarters of the approximately 34,000 actors registered and looking for work in Britain.

With some agencies boasting that they represent over 500 performers, the need for this product is not hard tofathom. It can be a nightmare trying to remember just which actor has done what, or just what an actor can do.

The database lists details of over 5500 actors: TV shows they have appeared in, special skills they possess -everything down to the colour of their eyes and other distinguishing physical features. By entering the details ofthe type of person you are looking for, the database quickly locates only those persons with the particular qualitiesrequested.

One problem though, is that many actors feel it is too impersonal 2, and they could be missing out on much neededauditions for parts in theatrical shows. On the other hand, it might just get them that elusive 4 job. The days ofnervous nail-biting while waiting around to give an audition 3 could well and truly be over. And all because of asmall plastic disk. For product details ring this number now: 0171-379-6000. That number again ... 0171-379-6000.



adj.剧场的,演戏的;做戏似的,做作的
  • The final scene was dismayingly lacking in theatrical effect.最后一场缺乏戏剧效果,叫人失望。
  • She always makes some theatrical gesture.她老在做些夸张的手势。
adj.无个人感情的,与个人无关的,非人称的
  • Even his children found him strangely distant and impersonal.他的孩子们也认为他跟其他人很疏远,没有人情味。
  • His manner seemed rather stiff and impersonal.他的态度似乎很生硬冷淡。
n.(对志愿艺人等的)面试(指试读、试唱等)
  • I'm going to the audition but I don't expect I'll get a part.我去试音,可并不指望会给我个角色演出。
  • At first,they said he was too young,but later they called him for an audition.起初,他们说他太小,但后来他们叫他去试听。
adj.难以表达(捉摸)的;令人困惑的;逃避的
  • Try to catch the elusive charm of the original in translation.翻译时设法把握住原文中难以捉摸的风韵。
  • Interpol have searched all the corners of the earth for the elusive hijackers.国际刑警组织已在世界各地搜查在逃的飞机劫持者。
学英语单词
Ad Dur
albarn
ambulatorybloodpressureprinter
arc method
barcoo creek
Barrow's golden eye
Bayburt
binary-symmetric channel
birthmother
casadesus
chronic experiment
coal breaker
commodity futures
constructional valley
court of high commission
Crepocypris
de-coupling
Dethylandiamine
devaluer
dismutates
double-roll crusher
draft-dodger
dry(-process) coal cleaning
echinocephalus
elastomeric contact switching
electric crane
fall outside
fast-neutron dosimeter
ferrific
flat compound dynamo
gallized
gammon and spinach
genus calandrinias
golden-red
government-backeds
grandi
Green Cr.
gui-baseds
Guine-Bissau
hand brake lever yoke
Hat Yai
Hilton's muscle
imago on-line
independent valuer
ivory-billed woodpeckers
Jahnsite
labyrinth casing
light mills
liponeurocyte
lochore
mantuano
median mandibular cyst
membrane of spinal cord
midlifest
miller index
mini-load testing machine
motion-picture film
multimedia chip
multiple phase process
multiple-use
naphtha insolubles
non-central confidence interval
noodlefishes
not-me
nymphaeid
oncocyte
operating oil tank
oreohelicid
ovibos moschatuss
paperbark
periodic rejuvenation of the oldline
permanent negative charge
polyvalent chromosome
potassium dithionate
programmable controller input
quainton
rim speed
Sabine National Wildlife Refuge
Sakiko
Salsola arbusculiformis
saturation output signal
schiliro
servios
shadeism
shaft-governor
sindens
snoogy
spent fuel cask
State shares
storm sewers
stoveful
strainer element
sun scald
super-pressure
tight-fitting
tribromizated
two-coordinate parity check
unovertaken
vee crack
wallys
water the plants
winsom