看《》世界末日學英語 救難方舟是真是假
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Jackson: Adults get hurt feelings too.
Charlie: the truth. Thank you, Bill. What is your question?
Bill: I wanted to know, where is all this gonna start?
Charlie: Well, something like this could only originate in Hollywood. They have the earth cracking under their asses already.
Bill: Our family believes in the Gospel of the lord Jesus. We have nothing to fear, Charlie.
Charlie: Good for you, Bill. Thanks for calling. This is Charlie Frost reporting live from Yellowstone National Park, soon to become the worlds largest active volcano. I'll be right back, folks.
Jackson: Do you mind if I join you? I wanted to ask you something.
Charlie: I only got a minute. Pickle?
Jackson: I was listening to the broadcast and I was wondering what exactly is it that's gonna start in Hollywood?
Charlie: It's the Apocalypse. End of days. The Judgment Day. The end of the world, my friend. Christians call it The Rapture, but the Mayans knew about it, the Hopis, The I Ching, the Bible. Beer?
Jackson: Yeah.
Charlie: So look, I gotta eat. Why don't you download my blog? It's free. Of course, we do appreciate donations.
Man on the blog: In ancient times, the Mayan people were the first civilization to discover that this planet had an expiration date. According to their calender, in the year 2012 a cataclysmic event will unfold, caused by an alignment of the planets in our solar system that only happens every 640.000 years. Oh, not again.
Charlie: Neat, huh? I did all the animation myself.
Man on the blog: Just imagine the Earth as an orange.
Charlie: You lure them in with humor. Then you make them think.
Man on the blog: Our sun will begin to emit such extreme amounts of radiation. Screw you bastards. That the core of the earth will melt at the inside part of the orange. Leaving the crust of our planet free to shift. In 1958 Professor Charles Hapgood named it: "Earth Crust Displacement". Albert Einstein did support it. People will get it all, the forces of Mother Nature will be so devastating that it will bring an end to this world on winter Solstice 12-21-12. Always remember, folks. You heard it first from Charlie Frost.
Charlie: You'd have to keep a thing like this under wraps. Just think about it. First, the stock market would go. Then the economy: Boom! The dollar: Boom! And then pandemonium in the street. War, genocide. Boom Boom Boom!
Jackson: Bullshit. Nobody could keep that big a secret, Charlie. Somebody would blow the whistle.
Charlie: An every once in a while, some poor sucker tries. Like these guys. Boom! Boom! Every one of these guys: Dead! Dead! Dead!
Jackson: Woah, that's Professor Meyers.
Charlie: He ran the Atlantis Shuttle Program. Did you know him?
Jackson: Yeah, he helped me out with research on my book.
Charlie: Well, that must have been before his accident.
Jackson: Meyers is dead?
Charlie: Yeah, two months ago. He was one of my most avid listeners. He had it all figured out. Everything the government was doing, where, why. He even sent me a map.
Jackson: A map for what, Charlie? What's the map for?
Charlie: They're building space ships, man.
Jackson: Shit, man, I have to go. I gotta get back to Earth. Do you have a beer?
Charlie: This is my last.
Jackson: Alright, I really enjoyed most of this. Thank you so much.
Charlie: Guess what, they're selling seats!
Jackson: Put me down for three.
Charlie: No! Guys like you and me don't have any chance. You'd have to be Bill Gates or Rupert Murdoch or some Russian billionaire.
Jackson: Keep it down, my kids are sleeping.
Charlie: Get them out of Yellowstone. It's gonna get ugly here.
妙語佳句 活學活用
1. active volcano: 活火山。
指的是正在噴發和預期可能再次噴發的火山，將來有可能噴發的火山稱爲dormant volcano（休眠火山），而不再會噴發的火山則是extinct volcano 死火山（死火山）。
例如：An active volcano may erupt at any time.活火山隨時可能噴發。
2. Apocalypse: 世界毀滅, （《聖經》所述的）末世, 大動亂；大災變。
3. Judgment Day: 末日審判。
基督宗教認爲，在世界終結前，上帝將要對世人進行審判，這就是末日審判。凡信仰上帝和耶穌基督並行善者可升入天堂，不得救贖者下地獄受刑罰
4. The Rapture: 也稱爲Rapture Day，指審判日。
5. I Ching：易經
6. expiration date: 有效期，在這指世界末日。
7. cataclysmic：大變動的，洪水的。
例如：We always trace the disappearance of dinosaurs to a major cataclysmic event.（人們很容易把恐龍消失的原因歸結爲重大的災難性事件。）
8. Earth Crust Displacement：地殼移位。
哈普古德教授在研究古代南極地圖時，曾經提出了地殼移位假說：某種狀況下，整個地球的外殼可能會整體轉動位移，如同一個空鬆的桔子的厚皮，鬆脫後就會整個轉動移位。
9.Mother Nature: 大自然，自然界。
10.under wraps: 受限制，受約束。查理在這裏說keep it under wraps指的是"保守祕密"。
11. blow the whistle：揭發某事。而告密者則被稱爲whistle-blower。
例如：When he discovered his boss was taking bribes, he blew the whistle and wrote his congressman about it.（當他發現他的上司受賄以後，他就告發了。他寫信把情況告訴了來自他居住地區的國會議員。）
12. avid: 熱衷的，酷愛的。
例如：An avid stamp collector, John rides the subject pretty hard whenever it is introduced.（約翰是個熱心的郵票收藏家，只要有人提起集郵，他就會滔滔不絕。）
