【跟着英剧练发音】Parades End E01 - 10

 C- Christopher Tietjens

Mac- MacMaster

 

 

Mac: A weekend on the golf links might do me some good, hobnobbing with our masters. I will change into my golfing togs when we get to our digs. One never knows who might be on the train. Mr Sandbach MP, going down to his constituency... Ah! The proofs of my monograph¹.

C: Sylvia asks me to take her back. She's joined her mother in Germany. 

Mac: Will you take her back?

C: I imagine so. There's the child to consider. Marchant says he's... beginning to talk like a farmer's boy already. Well, I shan't have a house again. There's a certain discredit² attaches to itself to a cuckold, quite properly.

 

1 monograph   

n.专题文章，专题著作

参考例句：

• This monograph belongs to the category of serious popular books.这本专著是一本较高深的普及读物。
• It's a monograph you wrote six years ago.这是你六年前写的的专论。

2 discredit   

vt.使不可置信；n.丧失信义；不信，怀疑

参考例句：

• Their behaviour has bought discredit on English football.他们的行为败坏了英国足球运动的声誉。
• They no longer try to discredit the technology itself.他们不再试图怀疑这种技术本身。