时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:新视野大学英语:视听说教程 1


英语课

Task 3: Halloween

Some people really enjoy Christmas, or Valentine’s Day, or Easter, or have a huge family reunion

or barbecue on the Fourth of July. Some people look forward to stuffing 1 themselves with turkey

every year on Thanksgiving. Great as those are, they don’t compare with my favorite. I LOVE

Halloween! Why Halloween? Well, Halloween is the night of the year when we can all get dressed

up as someone else, pretend 2 and let our imaginations run wild. Even adults get a free pass to go

back to their childhood and become that kid still inside all of us. It’s also the one night of the year

when we get to shine light on the dark, and confront 3 monsters, ghosts, witches 4, and all things

dead. We get to confront our biggest fears, as both children and adults, and reassure 5 ourselves that

there’s really no reason to be afraid of things we see at night.

Christmas     Thanksgiving      dressed      imaginations      adults      childhood

shine         confront          dead        reassure          at night

 



1 stuffing
n.填充物vt.填充(stuff的现在分词)
  • We had a chicken and stuffing, and new potatoes from the garden. 我们吃了只百宝鸡,还有园子里种的新鲜马铃薯。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She had already mixed the stuffing for the dumplings. 她已经把饺子馅和好了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2 pretend
vt.假装,假托,装扮;vi.假装,装作
  • So you don't need to pretend,do you?所以你不必装假了,对吧?
  • Many people pretend that they understand modern art.许多人装着自己懂得现代艺术。
3 confront
vt.遭遇,勇敢地面对,正视,使对质
  • A soldier has to confront danger.士兵须面对危险。
  • We must confront future with optimism.我们必须乐观地面对未来。
4 witches
n.女巫,巫婆( witch的名词复数 );讨人嫌的丑女人v.女巫,巫婆( witch的第三人称单数 );讨人嫌的丑女人
  • Witches used to be burned at the stake. 巫婆过去要被处以火刑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Witches ain't got no power in the daytime." 巫婆白天是没有法力的。” 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
5 reassure
v.使放心,使消除疑虑
  • This seemed to reassure him and he continued more confidently.这似乎使他放心一点,于是他更有信心地继续说了下去。
  • The airline tried to reassure the customers that the planes were safe.航空公司尽力让乘客相信飞机是安全的。
学英语单词
absorber keying
Adams Seamount
antigenic specificity
Apeldoorn
apparent gap density
arable land
asymmetrical desmosome
at the ebb
auricularia peltata
battery-fed motor
buffering effect
business end
calibrated air speed knots
canard wing
cargo containment system
chlorodesmis cosmosa bail. et harv.
client letter of representation
clinterocera davidis
Code of Conduct for Liner Conference
cortexes
Crossosoma
deep radial veins
Dernekpazari
detonatings
doliema ferruginea
extraembryonic membrane
factory layout
Farre's tubercles
floor socket outlet
frank read source
gas power unit
grain unloader
Grevillea banksii
groundsel bushes
heteropycnotic
Hofstra University
holochilus
Hudson bay collared lemming
hydroperoxidase
illiterate
infantile acute hemorrhagic edema of the skin
insulated isolation
integrating phase meter
internal carotid
Iris loczyi
iyengars
loss rate of steam and water in power plant
lotio plumbi cum opio
lycopodium chinense christ
macrocytotic
main bearing boring machine
mathematic(al)
McKinney, L.
medium oil alkyd resin
monotron hardness test
ninth-centuries
nonfibrillar
ocular elephantiasis
oligotrophication
Omaine
option charge
overheating fault
Parida, I.
parry manzanitas
passenger information display system
Petronius Arbiter
plumular axis
progressive dry kiln
prom
rave out
receiving objective
renounce claim to an inheritance
rivel-ravel
sauropodomorph
scatemia
schistose crystalline rocks
scott lappet loom
settlings-in
shank width
sidewise mismatch
siphoning drainage of the reactor vessel
snowy mts.
somersaultings
tactile glove
take priority
Talibanizes
technocritic
test set-up
thermodynamic critical field
three-courser
tilt angle control
transuranium element
trimming press chipping edger
twist drills
two-inches
uk -ability
University College, London
vagus (nerve)
Waltham Forest
well-given
worm casing
yuck factor