时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之就医和人际交往


英语课

 


Raising Teenagers 


Carl: Hi Marla, I’m really surprised to see you here. I didn’t know you had kids attending this high school. 


Marla: I don’t – not yet. I heard about this meeting and decided 1 to attend. It’s best to be ready for those teenage years, don’t you think? 


Carl: Sure. 


Marla: I heard that the principal is going to talk about different ways to handle our teenagers as they start asserting their independence. I want to be prepared. 


Carl: That makes sense, I guess. 


Marla: I mean, more and more teenagers are rebelling by getting tattoos 2 and piercings and experimenting with drugs. 


Carl: You’ve clearly done a lot of thinking about this. 


Marla: I’ve read a few books on the topic, about kids having to deal with peer pressure. It’s my job as a parent to set boundaries and be stricter if it’s called for and ease up when my child needs space. 


Carl: That’s all very insightful, but you have some time before all that comes into play, right? 


Marla: My little Lucas is already four years old. Who knows when he might start hanging out with the wrong crowd and being led astray. A parent has to be vigilant 3


 


Carl: Right. 



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 tattoos
n.文身( tattoo的名词复数 );归营鼓;军队夜间表演操;连续有节奏的敲击声v.刺青,文身( tattoo的第三人称单数 );连续有节奏地敲击;作连续有节奏的敲击
  • His arms were covered in tattoos. 他的胳膊上刺满了花纹。
  • His arms were covered in tattoos. 他的双臂刺满了纹身。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 vigilant
adj.警觉的,警戒的,警惕的
  • He has to learn how to remain vigilant through these long nights.他得学会如何在这漫长的黑夜里保持警觉。
  • The dog kept a vigilant guard over the house.这只狗警醒地守护着这所房屋。
学英语单词
acceleration diagram
accessories of universal operation table
agony aunts
alpha toxin
Andrey
aniline cancer
anteversion of uterus
anti-infection
at the cost
automatic forging press
autonomic response
awe-struck
bathygobius cocosensis
biohomochirality
bismuthoferrite
brachial stephoscope
bursa of biceps brachii
busy-ness
calcium sulphate
calio
Canthcrines
capecitabine
cargo purchase
chatoyant
clitoridectomized
communication policy
computational analysis
computer-animation
constringed
damsite
despective
digital holography
dimensional scaling
dispersion halo
electrofolk
embryotrophic
faithless
Franken food
general air change
give someone charge over
global fall-out
Grand Monarque
hecks
hypercapnia
Hypocrene
i have got
immunoadsorbent(immunosorbent)
impact adhesive
increasing hazard rate (ihr)
inductive step
infringement of freedom
intellectual nourishments
K-electron
Kuwǒlbong
lamen
longer-lastings
luvumbu
made true
magnetic spectropolarimetry
Marija Bistrica
Marina di Ragusa
mascara
maximum norm
mob
Montfort 1, Simon de
museum-goers
Nyquist method
octple time
oh-h-h
oil inserter
pempie
preexistency
pseudowavellite (crandallite)
pulse width modulation (pwm)
radially expanding clutch
restaveks
revisions in layouts
ring bar
road safety
root pass
seal packingring
Seftem
setting off against
slattern
smokers' cancer
subpolar climate
succinoylation
surface leakage
suspended roof
swerved
tip out
tournefortiana
Traube's resonance theory
tristichia
trochil
two-year-old horses
uncontrolledly
valve deposits
variation of risk
ventral chord
waveringness
went to the rescue