《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词3500》Unit 20 逍遥驿站

　　Unit 20
Garfield Quotes
Money is not everything. There's Mastercard & Visa.
One should love animals. They are so tasty.
Save water. Shower with your girlfriend.
Love the neighbor. But don't get caught.
Behind every successful man, there is a woman. And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.
Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.
The wise never marry, and when they marry they become otherwise.
Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.
Love is photogenic. It needs darkness to develop.
Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children.
"Your future depends on your dreams." So go to sleep.
There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.
"Hard work never killed anybody." But why take the risk?
"Work fascinates¹ me." I can look at it for hours!
A dress is like a barbed fence. It protects the premises² without restricting the view.
The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn.
A little ego³ goes nowhere.
All I do is eat and sleep. Eat and sleep. Eat and sleep. There must be more to a cat's life than that. But I hope not.
Avoid fruits and nuts: after all, you are what you eat.
Eat every meal as though it were your last.
Good times are ahead! Or behind. Because they sure aren't here.
His I.Q. is so low you can't test it. You have to dig for it.
I am hungry. Therefore I am.
I eat too much because I'm depressed⁴, and I'm depressed because I eat too much. It's a vicious⁵ circle... that took years to perfect!
I'm not messy. I'm organizationally challenged!
If you want to appear smarter, hang around someone stupider.
Odie, let's talk effort versus⁶ return here. You know, you can still lead a pointless life without all that running around.
This is it. I've reached the pinnacle⁷ of laziness and gluttony... How depressing. There's no place to go after you've reached the top.
When the lasagna content in my blood gets low, I get mean.
You can scratch my chair, you can insult my mother, you can beat up my dog, and you can play with my rubber mousie... but you don't eat my food and you don't sleep in my bed.
You know what is a "diet" is, don't you? It's "die" with a "t", that's what it is!

1 fascinates   

使着迷，使极感兴趣( fascinate的第三人称单数 )； 慑住…使动弹不得

参考例句：

• The novel fascinates the reader from the outset. 这部小说一开头就把读者迷住了。
• She fascinates me beyond measure. 她使我神魂颠倒。

2 premises   

n.建筑物，房屋

参考例句：

• According to the rules,no alcohol can be consumed on the premises.按照规定，场内不准饮酒。
• All repairs are done on the premises and not put out.全部修缮都在家里进行，不用送到外面去做。

3 ego   

n.自我，自己，自尊

参考例句：

• He is absolute ego in all thing.在所有的事情上他都绝对自我。
• She has been on an ego trip since she sang on television.她上电视台唱过歌之后就一直自吹自擂。

4 depressed   

adj.沮丧的，抑郁的，不景气的，萧条的

参考例句：

• When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
• His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。

5 vicious   

adj.恶毒的，恶意的，凶残的，剧烈的，严重的

参考例句：

• He gave the dog a vicious blow with his stick.他朝着那只狗狠狠地打了一棍子。
• The author portrayed his father as a vicious drunkard.作者把他父亲描绘成一个可恶的酒鬼。

6 versus   

prep.以…为对手，对；与…相比之下

参考例句：

• The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
• The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。

7 pinnacle   

n.尖塔，尖顶，山峰；(喻)顶峰

参考例句：

• Now he is at the very pinnacle of his career.现在他正值事业中的顶峰时期。
• It represents the pinnacle of intellectual capability.它代表了智能的顶峰。