【跟着英剧练发音】Parades End E01 - 19

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Mac- MacMaster

V- Valentine Wannop

M- Valentine’s mother

 

 

V: I must thank you for yesterday.

Butler: Ah, Mrs Wannop, what a pleasant surprise!

V: Mother?!

M: Which is Mr Macmaster, the critic? Are you Mr Macmaster, the critic?

Mac: I am Macmaster.

M: Oh, Mr Macmaster, my new book is coming out on Tuesday...

V: Mother, what have you done with Gertie?

M: She's lying low in the attic¹... High, rather. It will be of interest to you to hear about my 

book. To you journalists, a little inside information is always...

Mac: I'm not a journalist!

M: Well, a critic.

Mac: I don't review books. I'm not a critic in the sense of...

M: Of course you are.

Mac: I write for the critical quarterlies².

1 attic   

n.顶楼，屋顶室

参考例句：

• Leakiness in the roof caused a damp attic.屋漏使顶楼潮湿。
• What's to be done with all this stuff in the attic?顶楼上的材料怎么处理？

2 quarterlies   

季刊( quarterly的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• He reads all the literary quarterlies. 所有的文学季刊他都看。
• Editors and academics, through critical quarterlies, through college courses, support its orthodoxies. 编辑和学术界人士通过评论刊物，通过大学的课程，维护它的正统性。