新概念英语词汇随身听速记手册3新概念3词汇 40-42

新概念英语词汇随身听速记手册3新概念3词汇 40-

42

Lesson 40

hoax

骗局，戏弄

Students specialize in a particular type of practical joke;the hoax.

大学生擅长一种特殊的恶作剧——戏弄人。

The bomb threat turned out to be a hoax.

炸弹的恐吓原来是个骗局。

I can see through whatever hoax he chooses to stage.

他不管玩什么鬼把戏我都能看穿。

deception

欺骗，骗局

Inviting the fire brigade to put out a nonexistent fire

请消防队来扑灭一场子虚乌有的大火是一种低级骗局，

is a crude form of deception which no self-fespecting student would ever indulge in.

有自尊心的大学生决不沉溺其中。

"All warfare is based on deception"

“兵不厌诈”。

wrote the Chinese analyst Sun Tzu around 500 B,C.

公元前5世纪左右，中国的军事分析家孙子写道：

The company spread false information as a deception to mislead investors.

公司散布假信息，借以制造假相，误导投资者。

self-respecting

自重的

No self-respecting actor would appear in a pornographic film.

自重的演员绝不会出演色情电影的。

No self-respecting gourmet would go to a fastfood restaurant.

自重的演员决不肯光顾快餐店的。

indulge

使沉迷

Bozo indulged in the most high-flown speculations.

博佐沉入了最最不切实际的幻想中。

pneumatic

气动的

When a student recently saw two workmen using a pneumatic drill outside his university,

最近有个学生看见两个工人在大学校门外用风钻干活，

he immediately telephoned the police

马上打电话报告警察，

and informed them that two students dressed up as workmen

说有两个学生装扮成工人，

were tearing up the road with a pneumatic drill.

正在用风钻破坏路面。

The pneumatic boat can hold five people at the very most.

这条气垫船最多只能坐五个人。

Stilwell promised his brother a pneumtic gun on his birthday.

史迪威在他弟弟过生日的时候应许给他一支气枪。

drill

The prisoner turned his toothbrush into a convenient drill.

囚犯把牙刷改成了一把方便钻。

silly

无意义的，无聊的

He added that a student had dressed up as a policeman

他还说有人学生经常装扮成警察

and was playing all sorts of silly jokes on people.

在别人身上搞些无聊的恶作剧。

Never have I heard such a silly story.