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Unit 1be on a roll 好运不断flair n.天赋prime time 黄金时段feature vt.以...为特色 The program featured adaptation of well-known literature.airtime n.播出时间lend itself to sth 适合 The novel did not lend itself to radio.in effect 实际上flat adj.平淡无奇的 The Thursday rehearsal was flat.frantic adj.匆忙的scramble v.仓促行动 Koch ,frantic, scrambled to rewrite the script, but the Saturday rehearsal was disappointing too.wizened adj.年迈的 intone v.沉吟eerily adv.可怕地,神秘地 Orson Wells opened with the voice of a wizened chronicler from some future time, intoning eerily.unsettling adj.令人不安的innocuous adj.平淡无味的,无关紧要的 Wells’ unsettling monologue was followed by an innocuous weather forecast, then hotel dance music.inadvertently adv.未留心的 To casual listeners, the monologue seemed a mistake dropped inadvertently into typical radio music.bulletin n.简报propel v.推进velocity n.速度seismologist n.地震学家cylinder n.圆柱形容器spew v.喷出,发出at a time 一次又一次conceal v.隐瞒gravity n.严重性 I shall not try to conceal the gravity of the situation.consecrate v.献身 …so that we may confront this destructive adversary with a nation united, courageous, and consecrated to the preservation of human supremacy on this earth.preservation n.保护，留存supremacy n.至高无上,最高地位decimate v.破坏,屠杀 Meanwhile, the Martians decimated the Army and were wading across the Hudson River.siren n.警报vantage n.优势move in (on sb/sth) 向...逼进 From his vantage, he described the Martians felling people by the thousands and moving in on him.ham n. 业余无线电爱好者 A lonely ham radio voice somehow became.on / off (the) air 正在播出的trigger v.引发,触发mayhem n.破坏 The drama triggered widespread mayhem.crucifix n.十字架faint adj. 微小的whiff n. 一阵(微弱的)气味hermetic adj.密闭的catch / get / grab / take, etc. (a) hold of sb/sth 手中能抓到的东西get hold of sb 一把抓住suffocate v.窒息而死skeptical adj.怀疑的 Dad was hard to convince or skeptical, but he even got to believing it.outage n. 供电中断 A power outage reinforced the panic.panic n. 恐慌,惊慌hysteria n. 歇斯底里suspend v.使终止blast-off n.发射升空Unit 2 Technicolor(TM) n.彩色电影 authentic adj.