第23課：不誠實的?- 7

【迷你小對話1】

A: Have you noticed how Diane always gets the teacher to talk about her weekend so that we get to listen to stories instead of having to study math?
B: Yes. It’s pretty cunning trick; she is playing to be so interested in her life.

A: 注意到?jīng)]？Diane總有本領(lǐng)讓老師談?wù)撍闹苣┥?，這么一來我們就有故事聽，而不用上數(shù)學(xué)課了。
B: 聽說了，她這招真鬼；她總裝出對老師的生活十分感興趣的樣子。

【迷你小對話2】

A: This restaurant attracted a lot of customers by claiming that their food had 0 calories!
B: But that is a fraudulent claim! All food has calories!

A: 這家餐館聲稱食物中不含卡路里，因此吸引了很多肥胖的顧客。
B: 但這種說法不是存心騙人的嘛！所有食物都含卡路里啊！

【語言點精講】

cunning: 騙術(shù)高超的；狡詐的；詭詐的。
trick: 詭計，計謀；花招。
play: 在對話1中指假裝、裝樣子，相當(dāng)于pretend.
obese: （不健康的）過胖的。
fraudulent: 欺騙性的；欺騙行為或欺詐的。

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