本文档如对你有帮助，请帮忙下载支持！Lesson 36 A Chance in a Million 百万之一的机会New words and expression 生词和短语credulous ['kredj?l?s] adj.轻信的（always believing what you are told, and therefore easily deceived）(往往是形容人 ,表示一种不满的评价,也可以形容物 ,比如时代 age.) 近义词na?ve 能够看出Credulous a.轻信的，易于相信的。She was credulous when she listened to the salesman and bought the car for too much money. credible ['kred ?b(?)l a.可信的，可靠的（多形容物，也可形容人）。（to be able to be believed or trusted ）a credible friend 一个值得信赖的朋友但形容人更多用reliable trustworthythe student told the teacher a credible story that she missed classes because she was sick. gullible ['g ?l ?b(?)l] adj. 轻信的，容易上当受骗的gullible tourists 轻信的旅游者naive: 天真的not having much experience of how complicated life is so that you trust people too much and believe that good things will always happen 。naive girls 天真的女孩reliable adj. 十分可靠的a reliable source of information 有可靠来源的信息incredulous 怀疑的，不轻信的incredible 难以置信eg. An incredible story of 5 days living on a desert island unbelievable: extremely surprising 极端令人惊讶的fabulous: things that are mentioned in stories but do not really exist 不可思议的dragons and other fabulous creatures 龙和其他一些不可思议的动物improbable[?m'pr?b?b(?)l] adj.不大可能的（不大可能发生 的）（2、奇怪的、奇异的、荒谬的）（需要说明possible 和 probable 的区别， possible 是客观准确的意义，完全能够实现， 而 probable 是存在实现或发生的可能性，impossible 和 improbable 同样道理， IMPOSSIBLE means no one can do it .it just simplycan ’ t be done on the other hand, IMPROBABLE means that something is unlikely to happen。improbable 是不大可能会发生，只是正常情况下概率小，但并没有完全杜绝，也可能发生小概率事件，灰天鹅 ，...
