CNN news 2011-11-03 加文本

短语讲解：

1. The NBA season was supposed to start tomorrow.

be supposed to应该,被期望
例句：I'm not supposed to be at the party.
我不该在聚会上露面。

2. The league and team owners have locked out the players.

lock out (资方)不准(工人)进厂以威胁他们接受条件
例句：The workers had been locked out until they accepted the management's terms.
工人们在接受资方的条件之前被禁止进厂。

3. They`re working on how to split up the money that the league makes.

split up (使)分成若干小部分; 瓜分
例句：The family agreed to split up the estate.
这家人同意分享这部分财产。

4. Three seconds to scare up an answer.

scare up凑合
例句：She scared up a meal from the bits of food in the kitchen.
她用厨房里的一点食物凑合成一顿饭。

5. But it is natural to experience domatophobia around this time of year with so many haunted houses popping up.

pop up突然出现
例句：Your name has popped up from time to time in the papers.
你的名字不时在报纸上出现。

6. The dark domiciles are a Halloween tradition, but when Rob Marciano visited one recently, he found out that some haunted houses are a year- round industry, and he got some first-hand experience in their sophisticated scare tactics.

find out发现, 看穿, 揭发, 找出;查明
例句：We must find out the truth of the matter.
我们必须弄清楚事情的真相。

7. We work on this thing absolutely all year long.

work on致力于…
例句：He has been working on a new novel for over a year now.
近一年多来, 他一直在写一部新小说。

8. But what we`re going to do now, though, we`re going to make you into one of the creatures.

make into把…做成; 把…转变为, 使成为
例句：Working in the kitchen made the boy into a good cook.
那个孩子在厨房里工作, 这使他成了很好的厨师。

9. I`m teaming up with the Nightmare King.

team up (使)结成一队,合作,协作
例句：He teamed up with a friend and set up a trade business.
他与一个朋友联合, 做起了买卖。

10. Every night, they line up around the block at haunted houses like these across America, bringing an estimated $300 million a year.

line up排队等候
例句：I hate lining up in the cold to go to the cinema.
我非常讨厌在大冷天里排队等着看电影。