时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:一起闲话英语-English Chitchat


英语课
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A (boy)
My favourite thing has to be my new tablet. It’s really light and quite small, so I take it with me everywhere. I’m always writing messages to friends and it’s big enough to do college work on it too. It takes really good photos, and I play games and listen to music on it as well, of course. I often download films onto it and watch them in bed. My mum says I’m addicted 1, because I’m always on it. I even read things on it at breakfast time. I’m not allowed to at dinner time, though. I have to be polite and talk to people then.“Welcome back to real life," my mum says.
 
B (girl)
My favourite thing? Does my cat count as a thing? She’s not really a thing, but anyway. She’s a really beautiful little cat. I’ve had her since she was four months old. You know how some cats are really independent and hardly talk to you? I know cats don’t really talk, but you know what I mean. Well, she’s not like that at all. She’s really affectionate and comes up to me as soon as I get home, purring away like mad. She makes a lot of noise for a tiny thing. She loves being stroked and comes and curls up next to me when I’m on the sofa. She’s great company.
 
C (boy)
My new scooter! It’s quite small, but fun, and just what I needed for getting around the city. I used to have quite a long walk to the metro 2, then a longish walk at the other end to get to college. But now I can just whiz there on my scooter. And there’s no problem parking, there’s always space for it. You have to be careful with the cars and lorries – they don’t always see you – and when it rains the surface of the road is terrible, it gets really slippery. But in general it’s perfect for me, and I can fit a friend on the back too – I’ve got an extra helmet for a friend. It’s great. Riding along makes me feel so free.
 
D (girl)
This might sound a bit old-fashioned, but my sewing machine is my favourite thing. I’m studying fashion and love making things, as well as designing them. I also love clothes myself and often buy second-hand 3 clothes –  everyone loves the “vintage” look at the moment – and then I adapt them to my size. It’s much easier using a machine to do that than doing it by hand. I do alterations 4 for my mum and my sister too. If I don’t make it as a designer, I suppose I can always set up my own alterations and customising business. Customising clothes, by taking things off and adding things on, is actually very creative, so I wouldn’t mind that.
 
E (boy)
My set of Japanese knives. That sounds a bit sinister 5, doesn’t it, but I’m not a murderer or anything. They’re chef’s knives and the best ones come from Japan. Cooking is my new hobby. I got into it when I started watching Masterchef on TV. Then I went to an evening class for beginners, and I haven’t looked back since. I try and have a dinner for between four and eight friends every two or three weeks. That gives me something to work towards and I always do new dishes so they can try them out and give me feedback. It’s quite an expensive hobby if you use good ingredients, but now my friends help towards the cost. They still get a good meal for a very low price.

1 addicted
adj.沉溺于....的,对...上瘾的
  • He was addicted to heroin at the age of 17.他17岁的时候对海洛因上了瘾。
  • She's become addicted to love stories.她迷上了爱情小说。
2 metro
n.地铁;adj.大都市的;(METRO)麦德隆(财富500强公司之一总部所在地德国,主要经营零售)
  • Can you reach the park by metro?你可以乘地铁到达那个公园吗?
  • The metro flood gate system is a disaster prevention equipment.地铁防淹门系统是一种防灾设备。
3 second-hand
adj.用过的,旧的,二手的
  • I got this book by chance at a second-hand bookshop.我赶巧在一家旧书店里买到这本书。
  • They will put all these second-hand goods up for sale.他们将把这些旧货全部公开出售。
4 alterations
n.改动( alteration的名词复数 );更改;变化;改变
  • Any alterations should be written in neatly to the left side. 改动部分应书写清晰,插在正文的左侧。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Gene mutations are alterations in the DNA code. 基因突变是指DNA 密码的改变。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 sinister
adj.不吉利的,凶恶的,左边的
  • There is something sinister at the back of that series of crimes.在这一系列罪行背后有险恶的阴谋。
  • Their proposals are all worthless and designed out of sinister motives.他们的建议不仅一钱不值,而且包藏祸心。
学英语单词
address translation table
all-or-nothing relay
alongside wharf
Angelica wilsonii
annual power generation
Antequera
arsenical lead
Athanasius the Great
auto-tensioned catenary equipment
availability time
bagalu
birke
chart of frequency distribution
chlorurus oedema
cinematographe
cleaning company
completely cheesed
contact group
coshered
court decree
crawler rig
cybersecure
defet
deubiquitination
Diuranthera major
double Roebel bar
EDBP
effulge
ellochelon vaigiensis
emasculators
embright
epilatory
erasable area
essential boundary condition
f.t.i.
fairlead with horizontal roller
fill up a document
flue grouping
general acconting department
glass fabric
goal net
historic spots
hooks
Hybrid SACD
hynd-
IGDP
incision and threaddrawing therapy
inequality of variance
insurgency
international pipe standard(IPS)
intervals
lamination sheet
llimiting density
main peak
massless dirac particle
McCraken
median regression curve
megastructural
milwarde
miscellaneous observation
muccios
myo-architectonic
naso-pharyngeal duct
New sheriff in town
note order payable to bearer
orixa
Orlova, Mys
outraised
pagibaximab
palaeography
patient cable
pay homage to
pitch circle diameter (pcd)
plate distributor
pollable
precharge cycle
preoperculums
raft seed collection
range control system
revitalisation
rhr shutdown cooling suction line
ricordi
Rocky Mountain bee plant
roger fries
Rostan's asthma
shao
shipping diameter
sodium plumbate
state-sectors
steel wools
stepladder stage
stonebaked
superconducting heteropolar machine
target and training submarine
the laws of physics
This window is just as wide as that one
transmission by grafting
valuation concept
velocity of deformation
viennettas
wrapped booster
zou