时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:王强口语 第二册


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Topics of Discussion 1

People like to talk about politics 2 when they hold similar opinions, but when a group holds very different views, it is probably a subject to steer 3 clear of . For the most part, we don't like to argue.  So, when arguments start, we try to settle 4 it or stop it.  While the French may find a quarrel invigorating, we take disagreement 5 very personally.

Americans are generally not deep-thinkers and don't keep up with what's happening in the rest of the world.  This is part of the reason why a German with many American friends once commented that he was surprised by their hardly talking about subjects of national or world awareness 6.  It is not rude to bring up large topics and expect others to comment on them, but you will probably find the talk quickly slips 7 back to safe, easy matters. These are often questions of opinion.  Do you like to travel?  Did you like that TV show? What do you think of the weather?  How was the food at the new restaurant?  By talking about what we like or don't like, we try to learn if we like this person. American society is ordered9according to taste just as much as other things.



1 discussion
n.讨论,谈论;论述
  • It is certain he will come to the discussion.他肯定会来参加讨论。
  • After months of discussion,a peace agreement is gradually taking shape.经过几个月的商讨,和平协议渐渐有了眉目。
2 politics
n.政治,政治学;政纲,政见,策略
  • They seldom talk on politics in those days.那时人们很少谈论政治。
  • The two brothers differed about politics.这兄弟俩政见不同。
3 steer
vt.驾驶,为…操舵;引导;vi.驾驶
  • If you push the car, I'll steer it.如果你来推车,我就来驾车。
  • It's no use trying to steer the boy into a course of action that suits you.想说服这孩子按你的方式行事是徒劳的。
4 settle
vi.安家;定居;停留;vt.使定居;安排;解决
  • I have to settle my affairs before leaving here.离开这儿以前,我得把一些私人的事情安排妥当。
  • She has decided how she should settle the matter.她已做出决定如何来了解这件事。
5 disagreement
n.不一致;分歧;意见不合
  • They were in disagreement about the move to Cambridge.他们在是否迁居剑桥方面有争议。
  • I hope this disagreement does not divide us.我希望意见不同不至于使我们分道扬镳。
6 awareness
n.意识,觉悟,懂事,明智
  • There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
  • Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。
7 slips
v.滑( slip的第三人称单数 );滑脱;下降;(健康状况等)变差
  • There are a few trivial slips in this lesson. 在这篇课文中有几个小错误。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He slips now and then in his grammar. 他不时地犯语法错误。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
学英语单词
action pattern
advocacy tank
albulid
anamorphotic attachment
antistreptolysin o
ASIM,A.S.I.M.
Astrida
backup governor
bakerly
ballet british colombia
belt-type exhauster
bernoulli's relations
biotinylated
BTTT
butadiene-styrene copolymer
call analyzer
capacitive two-terminal element
Chaldees
chathetometer
client isolation
comma shaped cuttings
contempt of legislature
convertile
Deep South
dressin
dsDNA
e-i pick off
Eppelborn
ethnise
ethyl triphenyl silicane
exofacial
forensic hematology
fossa interpeduncular
Guebers
hablots
hauter
height of baffle plate
holotrichia sauteri sauteri
hypofluorescence
impregnate with
insinuated
insular convolution
invitation and submission of tender
kaoliang oil
leglessly
limacella glioderma
local grid
lodgment
long-time fatigue strength
Loudia Ouolof
Medskog
micropluviometer
mileposting
millifarad
mimotope
mispractice
nacoma
neutron-irradiated bromobenzene
nitinols
octin
opinion poll
ordaining
orman
Orussidae
overelaborateness
overoxidations
p. and h.
parking and maintenance room in the bulldozer garage
passenger van
Patiala
picrotoxin
pins and needle
playing hardball
quarter-band filter
rachen
rated power of solar array
reflexa
roboticization
rotor forging
salesclerks
seagates
security breaches
seize with both hands
sharp ear hook
shawon
slowcoach
stress-rupture
sun-trap
synical
tag card reader
taking-up lever bush
the tragic
thread groove
tilia mofungensis chun et wong
typhoid spine
ultrafashiinable
ur(in)ometer
vapor hood
wo'n't
work anchor
yeley