趣味青春英语电台 第224期:Poker face

 　　Idiom:

　　Poker¹ face ( face with no emotion )

　　Hit the book:

　　Reveal

　　Refrain from

　　Drift

　　Stretch imagination

　　Flip²

　　Lure³

　　Outdo

　　Procrastinate⁴

　　Crush

　　Catch Up On Your Reading

　　When your speednet finally reveals the big D (disconnect, you know), refrain yourself from hurling⁵. Keep calm, go over to your bookshelf, get one book you haven't read yet, curl yourself on the couch and drift to Scotland or Europe or wherever the setting of that particular book is. Reading takes a backseat whenever you're online. Twitter or Facebook or blogs are too good to pass up on and we always end up too tired to flip two or more chapters of our current book. Without the net to lure you away from your book list, you go back to basics and use and stretch your imagination recreating worlds and characters from whatever we are reading. Isn't that loads better than sulking?

1 poker   

n.扑克；vt.烙制

参考例句：

• He was cleared out in the poker game.他打扑克牌，把钱都输光了。
• I'm old enough to play poker and do something with it.我打扑克是老手了，可以玩些花样。

2 flip   

vt.快速翻动；轻抛；轻拍；n.轻抛；adj.轻浮的

参考例句：

• I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书，看来似乎很有趣。
• Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。

3 lure   

n.吸引人的东西，诱惑物；vt.引诱，吸引

参考例句：

• Life in big cities is a lure for many country boys.大城市的生活吸引着许多乡下小伙子。
• He couldn't resist the lure of money.他不能抵制金钱的诱惑。

4 procrastinate   

v.耽搁，拖延

参考例句：

• Most often we procrastinate when faced with something we do not want to do.面对不想做的事情，我们经常拖延。
• It's easy to procrastinate when the deadline seems infinitely far away.当最终期限总是遥遥无期时是很容易延期的。

5 hurling   

n.爱尔兰式曲棍球v.猛投，用力掷( hurl的现在分词 )；大声叫骂

参考例句：

• The boat rocked wildly, hurling him into the water. 这艘船剧烈地晃动，把他甩到水中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Fancy hurling away a good chance like that, the silly girl! 想想她竟然把这样一个好机会白白丢掉了，真是个傻姑娘！ 来自《简明英汉词典》