听美剧学英语:《淘小子看世界》 Who's Afraid of Cory Wolf? -3

Eric, what you're about to see may shock you.
Then put a towel on.
OK, look!
Oh, my god! I don't see anything at all!
Don't toy with me, it's all over me. I've got hair, huge amounts.
Yeah, you're right, where?
I've got hair on my chin, on my chest and other places I don't see where / having hair on is really gonna help me.
Hey, you're right. Look, little wispy¹ hairs. Congratulations, you're going through puberty. At least that's one explanation.
Eric, don't start with me. I'm on the edge, OK?
Well, it's just what you told me last night about being bitten by this wolf.
Well, I didn't get a good look at it. It might not have been a wolf.
So then it certainly wasn't an ordinary wolf, I mean, I don't know, buddy², one night you're bitten by a wolf, the next day, you are the chia boy. I don't wanna alarm you anything, but I think you might be turning into a werewolf.
Come on, who ever heard of a kid turning into a werewolf?
Oh, no one. Except the most widely read newspaper in America, read this.
"Siamese Twins Eat Their Way To Freedom"?
Oh, no, above the fold.
"Teenage Werewolf Probed³ by Top Scientists".
A kid who was on a camping trip got bitten by something he didn't get a good look at, kinda like you.
Wh...what happened to him?
Oh, nothing, nothing, he just turned into a werewolf.
This can't be true.
Oh, it's true. Jason's cousin met a guy at a party who knows the guy who saw the thing. They keep it in a secret steel-walled room in the Pentagon like this artist rendering⁴. It's already killed six guards. Every full moon, they open this little door, and feed it live rats.
Alright, listen, I don't wanna hear about this anymore, Ok? I'm not a werewolf, I am not a werewolf.
They say the first sign is denial⁵.
Cory, breakfast, I made you something special.
Humm, humm, big steaming bowl of rats.

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Cory?
Alright, I'm a hairy mess. Get out your Epilady and just do me.
No, sweetheart, I was just gonna say, don't forget your lunch.
It's Ok. I'll kill something at school.
I sense there's something on your mind.
Well, it's just this math problem I've been working on. If a werewolf leaves a train station going 40 miles an hour and another werewolf leaves at 60miles an hour... Do werewolves exist?
Is this about the wolf that escaped from the zoo?
Could be.
Cory, werewolves don't exist, relax, it's just a myth⁶. You know, as you get older, you'll learn how to separate myth from reality.
What are you doing?
One of our soda⁷ distributors heard about this guy robbed the jewelry⁸ store and made off with five diamond rings.
And he hid those diamond rings in five cans of soda, thus your father and other grownups who can separate myth from reality have been boosting⁹ soda sales.
It's a three-carat diamond, babe.
I'm so thirsty.

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Epilady: a hair-removal product

1 wispy   

adj.模糊的；纤细的

参考例句：

• Grey wispy hair straggled down to her shoulders.稀疏的灰白头发披散在她肩头。
• The half moon is hidden behind some wispy clouds.半轮月亮躲在淡淡的云彩之后。

2 buddy   

n.（美口）密友，伙伴

参考例句：

• Calm down,buddy.What's the trouble?压压气，老兄。有什么麻烦吗？
• Get out of my way,buddy!别挡道了，你这家伙！

3 probed   

v.探索，用探针（或探测器等）探查，探测( probe的过去式和过去分词 )；盘问；（用试探性袭击等）侦察（敌情）；用尖物刺穿（物件）

参考例句：

• I probed around for some time in the bushes. 我在矮树丛里四处搜寻了一段时间。 来自辞典例句
• A doctor probed deep in his shoulder wound for shrapnel. 一位医生伸进他肩膀伤口的深处寻找弹片。 来自辞典例句

4 rendering   

n.表现，描写

参考例句：

• She gave a splendid rendering of Beethoven's piano sonata.她精彩地演奏了贝多芬的钢琴奏鸣曲。
• His narrative is a super rendering of dialect speech and idiom.他的叙述是方言和土语最成功的运用。

5 denial   

n.否认；拒绝，拒绝给予

参考例句：

• The newspaper printed a denial of the untrue story.报社刊登了否认不实消息的声明。
• Her denial of my advice hurts me.她拒绝我的忠告伤害了我。

6 myth   

n.神话，神话故事

参考例句：

• The story has points of resemblance to a Hebrew myth.这个故事与某个希伯来神话有相似之处。
• The story is a pure myth.这故事纯属虚构。

7 soda   

n.苏打水；汽水

参考例句：

• She doesn't enjoy drinking chocolate soda.她不喜欢喝巧克力汽水。
• I will freshen your drink with more soda and ice cubes.我给你的饮料重加一些苏打水和冰块。

8 jewelry   

n.（jewllery）（总称）珠宝

参考例句：

• The burglars walked off with all my jewelry.夜盗偷走了我的全部珠宝。
• Jewelry and lace are mostly feminine belongings.珠宝和花边多数是女性用品。

9 boosting   

n.增[升]压；加大推力[功率]，加速（发动机）；助推v.促进( boost的现在分词 )；增加；吹捧；向上推起

参考例句：

• The company needs boosting up, if it is not to be defeated by its competitors. 该公司如要在竞争中不被对手挤垮，就须加强实力。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The firm is boosting the new product. 公司正在大事宣传 [推销] 新产品。 来自辞典例句