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
aminonitriles
anti-codon
back burn
Banqiao City
beebes
break-axe
breakage effect
Breakage of Packing Clause
Bruttium
BSMRA
camerer
Chief Warrant Officer
chimney emission
cis-homoaconitase
co-invariant
coalite
compressed gas condenser
contract conditions
cooperation based on division of labor
country folk
cucumis melo inodoruss
cutting-off tool
data base control
decorticator
deep-slot motor
diaphragm accumulator
drill pipe alignment method
extragalactic compact radio source
extrasyllabically
fairing spoke
fatidic
film capacitor
freely orienting chain
functional manual
Galium xinjiangense
gamogastrous
genus Viburnum
grazing site
guiltier
hareems
heptanamine
hour circles
HYDRARG
hydroxylamine sulfate
hysterotomy
in a qualified sense
incrested
informal label
internal bulge
J function
kanomwan
kinhin
lactic acid piperazinium salt
lanpher
light-meter
longitudinalis inferior
LSI logic function testing
lupin
magnetic chamber
make a show of ourselves
marang
masner
medium access control (mac)
metastatic multiple calcification
mill flow sheet
mismatch slotted line
mistura rhei et natrii bicarbonatis
MOPN
mythimna separata
naddis
navigation star (navstar)
open hash table
panregional
parallel scalar processor
parasympathomimetic
physiology statistics
portlights
precondenser
prestress(ing)
Pteracanthus claviculatus
rear axle stand
red blood cell enzyme
regenerationist
russet coat
saccobolus saccoboloides
scale of budget
scalloping (twt)
semisoft
sessionary
sherryvallies
sibilismus aurium
soracco
spenser
supplementary tank
tharn
Those were times!
timekeeper trials
tube sample boring
TV-fluroscopy
unpreparable
unsaddling
West Warren