Mike: What do you want to drink?

Amanda: Just get me something on the rocks. I need to cool down. It's hot in here with all these people.

Mike: It might be more to do with the fact that you insisted on squeezing into those ridiculous leather trousers and plastering yourself in all that black makeup. You look like you've walked straight off the set of a horror movie.

Amanda: There's no point in coming to watch Morgue if I'm not going to look the part. I might even try head banging, and if it gets really packed down the front, I'm going to stage dive.

Mike: You've certainly changed your tune. I had to drag you kicking and screaming to their gig last year.

Amanda: Well, I listened to that CD you lent me a while back. I really got into the drum solos. I also read a review that said their onstage antics are way more bizarre and macabre than they used to be. I can't wait to see what they get up to.

Mike: I'm sure they'll scare the living daylights out of us by emerging from coffins or something like that.

Amanda: All that voodoo stuff is hardly original though. It can be traced back to Screamin' Jay Hawkins in the late 1950s.

 

VOCABULARY      词汇积累

 

1. to plaster  (v.)   涂抹；涂上厚厚一层
The interior designer plastered the walls with paint.

2. morgue  (n.)   停尸间
Inspector Gabriel went to the morgue to get the results of the autopsy.

3. antic  (n.)   滑稽的动作；古怪的姿势
Alfred's antics caused quite a stir among the well-to-do residents.

4. macabre  (adj.)   恐怖的；与死亡有关的
His macabre movies are usually set in cemeteries.

5. voodoo  (n.)   巫毒
Natives on the Caribbean island practiced a form of voodoo.

6. on the rocks   （饮料）加冰块
A: I'm having a fruit juice. What about you?
B: I feel like bourbon on the rocks.

7. to change one's tune   改变作风；改变态度
A: Martin seems to have changed his tune.
B: I agree. He used to hate eating curry.

8. to scare the (living) daylights out of somebody   把某人吓得魂不附体
A: I wish you wouldn't creep up on me like that.
B: But I'm trying to scare the living daylights out of you.