时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之商务英语


英语课

 


Retiring Abroad 


Wanda: I just heard the news. You’re moving to McQuillanland? 


George: I am. I’ve decided 1 to retire abroad. 


Wanda: Why? 


George: It makes a lot of sense for people with a fixed 2 income. Social Security will only go so far here, but the cost of living is much lower in other countries, including McQuillanland. I can live it up at a fraction of the cost of living modestly here. 


Wanda: But you’re moving away from all of your friends and family. 


George: I can stay in touch remotely and there is an American expat community there so I can make new friends. I am a little worried about learning the language and adjusting to life abroad, but I’ll be living a simpler life there and there’ll be less stress. 


Wanda: But sometimes things aren’t so reliable when you live abroad. 


George: Like what? 


Wanda: I’ve heard that the Internet services can be unreliable and power outages are common in McQuillanland. Are you sure you want to put down stakes in a foreign country? 


George: What do I have to lose? I already have my residency visa and a condo on the beach waiting for me. The real question is: when are you going to take the plunge 3


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
2 fixed
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
3 plunge
v.跳入,(使)投入,(使)陷入;猛冲
  • Test pool's water temperature before you plunge in.在你跳入之前你应该测试水温。
  • That would plunge them in the broil of the two countries.那将会使他们陷入这两国的争斗之中。
学英语单词
(a)etio-
abandoned field
accelerator mapping
activitists
animal fries
axonic bone
Banxia Baizhu Tianma Tang
beshades
biphase shift keying(bpsk)
blade failure and repair
breast boards
Breschet's hiatus
bridge collapse
Buteni
by pass route
carbenicillinnatrium
Chadema
Chrysosplenium microspermum
church key
confounded arrange ment
critical case
crossotarsus emancipatus
current lamination
dinkuses
diplogonoporiasis
dipylon gates
ear pad
ecumenicalism
emulsified oil quenching
euaspa forsteri
eurocom
flagstaff socket
floating tool
general interpretive program
getulio
graduating diaphragm
gray jays
hemipsocus chloroticus
humeral scute
hydroscaphids
increased value insurance
inventory container identifier
iodomethamate sodium
Isomil
isovols
kouba
lammergeyer
leptocephali
longshore transportation
Lyonnais, Mts.du
melibioses
mixing mills
Montrevel-en-Bresse
National Volunteers Association
necromimesis
Nepeta manchuriensis
neurocranium
nevie
normal exponential valuation
off the gold standard
orbitonomete
oxyfuels
panays
Parkers Prairie
pccw
placental accentuated
platanistids
plate-armours
port of adjudication
proinflammation
provee
pulse quenching press
quasi-continous action of a threelevel controller
rakehell
responsible trading
riiegler's test
Rovuma (Ruvuma)
s-hook slip joint
shake someone rigid
sib
skeg band
Southern crab apple
split ups
status macrobioticus multiparus
steel-seal type cell
stene
surefast
tender system
the glasshouse
timber caisson
tranquility tank
transcreated
tross
uncapitulating
upper-air route
vane solidity
variable-length data package
venae faciei profunda
vinegar cure
wearing limit
wireless spreader
X-ray take-off angle