BBC新闻词汇(视频版) 第23期:Psychic fish
日期:2013-01-09 16:05

(单词翻译:单击)

Transcript:

First there was Paul the Octopus predicting World Cup results two years ago...

Now a psychic fish in Singapore is being used to forecast the scores of matches at Euro 2012.

The dragonfish, known as Big Huat, was spot on with one-all for the football tournament's opener between Poland and Greece.

Its younger nephew, though, was wide of the mark suggesting the Poles would win.


Vocabulary:

predicting v. 预测(predict的ing形式),预报,预言

psychic n. 灵媒;巫师

forecast n. 预测,预报,预想

spot on [英国口语],完全正确的

wide of the mark 毫不相关,远离目标,离谱

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重点单词
  • tournamentn. 比赛,锦标赛,(中世纪的)骑士比武
  • predictv. 预知,预言,预报,预测
  • forecastn. 预测,预报 v. 预测