时间:2019-01-25 作者:英语课 分类:英语趣味课堂


英语课

 Todd: OK. Hello!


 
Jamie: Hi!
 
Todd: Hi! Can you introduce yourself please?
 
Jamie: My name is Jamie. I'm living here in Japan, and I'm from Canada.
 
Todd: OK. Where are you from in Canada?
 
Jamie: Vancouver, Canada, British Columbia.
 
Todd: Oh, nice. Were you born there?
 
Jamie: I was born in British Columbia, in Victoria.
 
Todd: OK.
 
Jamie: But I spent my adult working life in Vancouver and Japan.
 
Todd: OK. How long have you been in Japan?
 
Jamie: Let's see, four years right now, and a grand total of six years.
 
Todd: Wow. How much longer do you plan to stay in Japan?
 
Jamie: That's a good question. I ask myself that on a daily basis.
 
Todd: Yeah. Yeah. Me, too. OK. So we'll go ahead and pass on that one.... What do you think about Cananda?
 
Jamie: Canada is a great place. It's a..you know being Canadian of course. I'm pretty, fairly nationalistic about it, but it's not a perfect place, obviously 1. A lot of high taxes. Not always the job that you want is available but ultimately 2 it's , you know, it's a pretty good place.
 
Todd: OK. So when you get gray and old, is Canada the place you'll settle down in?
 
Jamie: Settle down, that's kind of a hard call as well, but I certainly think of Canada as being a place I'd like to, I'd like to take it easy on a regular basis.
 
Todd: OK. Great. Thanks a lot Jamie.
 
Jamie: OK. My Pleasure.
 
学习内容:

Learn Vocabulary from the lesson
adult working life
 
I've spent my adult working life in Vancouver and Japan.
 
Your 'adult working life' is the time after you finish school when you have a job and are independent.  Notice the following:
 
He began his adult working life at a bank.
When are you going to start your adult working life?
grand total
 
I've lived in Japan for four years, and a grand total of six years.
 
The 'grand total' of something is the final amount that you have or do.  It is a combination 3 of everything.  Notice the following:
 
She has a grand total of 60 pairs of shoes.
A grand total of 300 people came to the party.
on a daily basis
 
I ask myself that question on a daily basis.
 
If you do something 'on a daily basis' you do it every day.  Notice the following:
 
He exercises on a daily basis.
She calls me almost on a daily basis.
get gray and old
 
When you get gray and old, is Canada the place you'll settle down in?
 
'Get gray and old' is an informal friendly phrase that refers to the time in life when we have gray hair and are very old.  Notice the following:
 
I never want to get old and gray.
I plan to travel when I get gray and old.
hard call
 
Deciding where to settle down is a hard call as well.
 
A 'hard call' is a difficult decision to make.  Both of the options have positive and negative effects.  Notice the following:
 
That must be a hard call to make.
It's a hard call which is the better apartment.


adv.显然;明白地
  • Obviously they were putting him to a severe test.显然他们是在给他以严峻的考验。
  • Obviously he was lying.显然他是在撒谎。
adv.最后地,最终地,首要地,基本地
  • It was a demeaning and ultimately frustrating experience.那是一次有失颜面并且令人沮丧至极的经历。
  • Vitamin C deficiency can ultimately lead to scurvy.缺乏维生素C最终能道致坏血病。
n.组合,合并,联合;
  • He carried on the business in combination with his friends.他与朋友们合伙做生意。
  • The materials can be used singly or in combination.这些材料可以单独使用也可以混合用。
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alloy structural steel wire
aluminium
American cranberry
analogue desk
angle of maximum stability lever
apoenzymes
assembler operation directive
asynchronous access
automatic setup
back face dry
Balfour's law
be out of breath
beg one's pardon
begriffs jurisprudence
behind locked doors
benzylzingerone
blasto-
blend juice
Carex hirtiutriculata
Cengio
cobitis taenia
cocoa press cake
complex adaptive system
crocking fastness
Cruz de Forcados
cry out for
cyanide leaching
diogenes edwardsii
domain of
Ellastone
eulerian derivative
feel sure about
Foeniculum vulgare Mill.
fontanus
genus feliss
Ghanaian, Ghanian
granther
Guoqiao
haruna
heart wood sleeper
hyperkeratosis
individual operation
indultum
Kiaton
lamp dimmer
liability rule
locomotive running kilometers
long term behavior
master nozzle
media baron
mentot
methylene blue test
mobile steam generator
mosing
non-identifications
nonglycoside
nonrhythmic
overextrapolations
paraformldehyde
paren.
pattinsons
penertration phosphors
Phytolaccaceae
piston rod stuffing box cup
polyonychia
Proteomyxa
prowl-car
pseudostrabismus
Raschig (ring)
rate-grown junction
Raunkiaer system
reversion reaction
RHIP
Ringstedt
roughed-up
sayman
secondary task
secondary triangulation
sector of economy
seelden
share cap
sidedoors
six-way
slide stroke
staggered
steel tube fuselage
stoplessly
string table
symmetry elements
telecommerce
torten
tournament algorithm
tracking and data-relay satellite
transuretero-ureteral anastomosis
Triangolo
tshawytscha
turbulent regime
wellhead assembly
wheel forming tool
women futurology
wrinkle
Xisha