时间:2019-01-01 作者:英语课 分类:英语博客 A cup of English


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  Stars on ice.

I have never really been much of an ice skater. When I was a teenager, I would go indoor skating with friends, mainly to have a good laugh. When people are wobbling and falling down on a regular basis, it can be amusing 1! My friends and I never practiced enough to get really good. And that, I'm sure, makes all the difference. When you see someone who really skates well, it is like looking at good art. I had the opportunity a couple of weeks ago to see world class skating. A friend of mine had bought tickets to see 'Stars on ice'. Well, I had heard of the show, but didn't really know any details about who would be performing. I assumed that it would be a group of ice dancers, so to speak, but not anyone you could consider a champion. How wrong I was! The whole group of dancers were Olympic and World gold and silver champions! I couldn't believe it! They had come all the way to little old Wenatchee! You might recognize some of the names: Kurt Browning (4 times World Champion from Canada), Evan Lysaceck (Olympic gold medalist from U.S), and Ekaterina Gordeeva ( 2 times Olympic gold medalist). The performance lasted about 2 hours, with a short intermission. I took my little girl, who was mesmerized 2 by the acrobatics 3 and the beautiful dresses. And the stadium was packed, as you can imagine. There were cheers and claps all the way through as the stars spun 4 in the air and landed flawlessly. I'm sure that young people in the audience were inspired to rent some skates, and go to the next public ice skating session, to wobble around and imagine themselves as stars.

Grammar notes.

So to speak, mesmerized, flawless.

The wedding cake she made was a triumph, so to speak.

The ladies were mesmerized by the diamond rings in the shop window.

This antique 5 vase is flawless; it doesn't have any cracks, or even one scratch.



adj.有有趣的,好玩的
  • The girl was amusing herself with a doll.那女孩在玩洋娃娃自娱。
  • He related some amusing stories in his childhood to his children.他向孩子们述说了他少年时代的一些趣事。
v.使入迷( mesmerize的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The country girl stood by the road, mesmerized at the speed of cars racing past. 村姑站在路旁被疾驶而过的一辆辆车迷住了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • My 14-year-old daughter was mesmerized by the movie Titanic. 我14岁的女儿完全被电影《泰坦尼克号》迷住了。 来自互联网
n.杂技
  • Acrobatics is hard to learn but beautiful to watch.杂技不好学,但很好看。
  • We watched a performance which included a puppet show and acrobatics.我们观看了一场演出,内容有木偶和杂技。
v.纺,杜撰,急转身
  • His grandmother spun him a yarn at the fire.他奶奶在火炉边给他讲故事。
  • Her skilful fingers spun the wool out to a fine thread.她那灵巧的手指把羊毛纺成了细毛线。
adj.古时的,古代的;n.古物,古器,古玩
  • The Sunday antique market is a happy hunting ground for collectors.周日的古董市场是收藏家的淘物乐园。
  • I saw the vase in the window of an antique shop.我在一家古玩店的橱窗里看见了这个花瓶。
学英语单词
6-methoxyquinoline
agricultural chemicals industry
anchi-monomineralic rocks
anemones
Aprilfool
artificial fish nest in reservoir
babyline dose rate meter
ballast spreading car
bidirectional printer
borzois
carrot poultice
certioration
closed end spark plug
comeouterism
conabio
concentration scal
continuous measurable function
contract of adhesion
convectional degree of distortion
Credadine
crossover leg
cultural sensitivity
deanshangers
difference ionization chamber
doggishness
Dracocephalum propinquum
draw-knife
drugs of abuse
elaborate servo-control system
enigmatic
ergalatax contractus
expectancy and expectation
expedite planned order
Forchielli
frameless vehicle
fraternisation
geranialess
glass maker
gorgerin
hog population
honaker
hydroxyacrylic acid
inhesion
inlet-air zone
isoelectronic focusing
isostath
khatab
knitlike
Koufey
lord have mercy
luge
magnetic resonance accelerator
mandarinorum
Marcellus II
Mellenville
missile-borne radome
Myrtineae
n-sphere
oscillating weight tension washer
outofsize
Pakistanphobia
panicums
partial manufacture
payment probability distribution
peri-endothelial cell
personal manners
pitchfork
plant horns on someone
polyhydroxylated polymer
powder-coated
precise level
principal coefficient of contraction
proverbialising
reactive power meter
reductive
regulation platform
rubber metal assembly
rugby tackled
salad burnet
Sean O'Casey
secondary liber
segmented microprogrammable computer
self-dealings
Shikag L.
skeleton pattern
spare module
stethojulis trilineata
sting like a bee
telephone dialer circuit
thomas-davis
transformer hybrid
transversospinal
unconjecturable
unoccupied area
upper valve seat
Varennes-St-Sauveur
ventral funiculus
well above
X-ray quantometer
ypomnema
Zawgyi
zis