时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之餐饮娱乐


英语课

 


Becoming a Spy 


Vaughn: You’ve been reading that novel for hours. What is it? 


Sydney: It’s a spy novel and it’s really good. It’s about a man who is recruited by the C.I.A. to work in counterintelligence doing code breaking, but he becomes embroiled 1 in the world of espionage 2


Vaughn: That sounds exciting. 


Sydney: Yeah, he’s sent on a mission to infiltrate 3 a foreign spy organization and to feed them misinformation. I’d love to be a spy. 


Vaughn: You wouldn’t really want to live the life of a spy, would you? You’d have to live a double life, not being able to tell your friends and family that you’re an operative. 


Sydney: I wouldn’t care if I could go on clandestine 4 missions to thwart 5 and sabotage 6 the enemy. Working for the C.I.A. would be a dream come true. 


Vaughn: You’d have to keep a lot of secrets, not divulging 7 classified information. 


Sydney: Yes, so? 


Vaughn: Loose lips sink ships. 


Sydney: What are you trying to say? 


Vaughn: Well, no offense 8 but I think your cover would be blown after about five minutes! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 embroiled
adj.卷入的;纠缠不清的
  • He became embroiled in a dispute with his neighbours. 他与邻居们发生了争执。
  • John and Peter were quarrelling, but Mary refused to get embroiled. 约翰和彼得在争吵,但玛丽不愿卷入。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 espionage
n.间谍行为,谍报活动
  • The authorities have arrested several people suspected of espionage.官方已经逮捕了几个涉嫌从事间谍活动的人。
  • Neither was there any hint of espionage in Hanley's early life.汉利的早期生活也毫无进行间谍活动的迹象。
3 infiltrate
vt./vi.渗入,透过;浸润
  • The teacher tried to infiltrate her ideas into the children's minds.老师设法把她的思想渗透到孩子们的心中。
  • It can infiltrate as much as 100 kilometers into enemy territory at night.可以在夜间深入敌领土100千米。
4 clandestine
adj.秘密的,暗中从事的
  • She is the director of clandestine operations of the CIA.她是中央情报局秘密行动的负责人。
  • The early Christians held clandestine meetings in caves.早期的基督徒在洞穴中秘密聚会。
5 thwart
v.阻挠,妨碍,反对;adj.横(断的)
  • We must thwart his malevolent schemes.我们决不能让他的恶毒阴谋得逞。
  • I don't think that will thwart our purposes.我认为那不会使我们的目的受到挫折。
6 sabotage
n.怠工,破坏活动,破坏;v.从事破坏活动,妨害,破坏
  • They tried to sabotage my birthday party.他们企图破坏我的生日晚会。
  • The fire at the factory was caused by sabotage.那家工厂的火灾是有人蓄意破坏引起的。
7 divulging
v.吐露,泄露( divulge的现在分词 )
  • The soldier was shot for divulging the plans to the enemy. 这个士兵因向敌人泄密被击毙。 来自互联网
  • Gives itself a small seat. Divulging heartily. 给自己一个小位子。尽情的宣泄。 来自互联网
8 offense
n.犯规,违法行为;冒犯,得罪
  • I hope you will not take any offense at my words. 对我讲的话请别见怪。
  • His words gave great offense to everybody present.他的发言冲犯了在场的所有人。
学英语单词
a moment ago
ablutioner
abubble
agricultural aircraft
air package
albert hart
amitriptylines
appeasingly
apterygidaes
Arnd alloy
Artimyctella
ascariemesis
Bacillus muscoides
bankrupt's estates
beneficently
bifeprunox
bubble cap distributor
burgul
capability-approach
Cartwright Pt.
cashcards
chemical treatment
chief mourner
cloth print
collective selection
correct name
dines float manometer
dirth
Dontostemon senilis
economic assistance project
economic scale
electroformed sieve
exophtralmometer
fire lance
fractiousness
fruit salad
genus bertholletias
gradient former
graphitoid
gumbotill
Herter, Christian Archibald
heterodimerises
hohenlindens
honeycomb fashion
isochromosomes
kangarina abyssicola
Leninskaya Sloboda
lift of valve plate
Lochbrücke
manganese boron alloy
megilloth
Metcalfe's law
midship draft mark
monaural receiver
n-butylpyrrolioine
neritopelagic zone
nogat
noneconomic
Nxainxai
optistat
organically-growns
outward(s)
over-fit
paraproteinosis
Passavant pad
Pedicularis macrosiphon
potentizations
Preesall
Protococcida
put their foot in their mouth
quangoism
raisin brans
reasons out
reemits
resettables
rice seedlings bed
rock forming element
rosinate soap
rserve
ruddle
rule of four
sacculo-utricular ducts
scroll sheer
shell of abalone
singhikalia subfasciata
sketch ball
snacking down
stray illumination
sugar baby
supporting-actor
tapping intensity
theories of dissociation
thioxidrene
ultrasonic wave-type fire detector
undulled
unpave
upper cone
Vittarieae
volume-period method
waterworld
wet-roads