时间:2019-01-20 作者:英语课 分类:纯正地道美语


英语课

  A:   Now that it’s the new year, I’ve decided 1 to turn over a new leaf.

B:   Yeah? You finally decided to wipe the slate 2 clean?

A:   You got it! I have a new job, I’m living in a new city, with new friends! This is my opportunity to make some small changes in the way I live my life.

B:   So what are you going to do? Take up an art class or something?

A:   Well, first of all, I’ve decided to stop smoking. It’s not that I’m pinching pennies or anything, it’s just that I’ve been smoking since I was sixteen, and I think it’s time to stop.

B:   I’m with you on that one.  Anything else you’re planning on doing?

A:   One last thing, I’ve decided to come out of the closet.

B:   It’s about time!

turn over a new leaf 重新开始

Now let's turn over a new leaf.

现在咱们从头开始

wipe the slate clean重新开始

opportunity n. 机会;时机

I'll have another opportunity to visit the exhibition next year.

明年我们还有一次机会参观这个展览会。

take up 参加,开始学习

When did he take up football?

他是什么时候开始踢足球的?

pinch pennies 节俭;精打细算

We must pinch pennies to make ends meet.

我们一定要精打细算, 以求收支平。

with you 支持你

come out of the closet 公开同性恋

拓展词汇】

endless a.无止境的,没完没了的

significant adj. 重大的

to  start anew/to  begin anew 重新开始

to quit 放弃

to get into shape 变健康

A: 既然现在是新年,我决定重新开始。

B: 真的吗?你终于决定重新开始?

A: 说对了,我有了新的工作,和新朋友居住在新城市。这是改变下生活方式的好机会。

B: 那你打算做什么?参加艺术班还是做别的事?

A: 首先,我决定戒烟。并不是我想省钱,而是从16岁我就开始抽烟,我认为是时候戒烟了。

B: 我支持你。还打算做别的事吗?

A: 最后一件事,我决定公开同性恋。

B: 那只是时间问题!

 



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。
n.板岩,石板,石片,石板色,候选人名单;adj.暗蓝灰色的,含板岩的;vt.用石板覆盖,痛打,提名,预订
  • The nominating committee laid its slate before the board.提名委员会把候选人名单提交全体委员会讨论。
  • What kind of job uses stained wood and slate? 什么工作会接触木头污浊和石板呢?
学英语单词
acera
ADACC
antitubercular agent
APRS (automatic production record system)
balance lug
ball cage
banks is.
baryta coated paper
begartered
benzer
bhattacharya
bill of lading freight
bloemspruits
boring machines
breckon
carbon dioxide refrigerating machine
churchill downss
cleaning cell
Cnephia
common mode input
convergency of symptom
country rock alteration
cut price offer
cystoscopic(examination)
D and D
Dahomey
decentralization of purchasing
delitos
dicolic
digestibleness
double head latch needle
Dover Castle
electronic time relay
facia
fern allies
flat iron
fleet streets
fraternal birth order effect
galumphing
gear driven pump
gross line
hughied
hybrid vigour
hydrated electron dosimetry
ICAM Definition Method
individual study
infeoffment
insulated value
justificatory
Kanniyakumari
knokke (knocke)
kokodo
largeend
lead by the nose
mallenders and sallenders
measure of area
method of reverse osmosis
Mohawk Valley
multi-drum winch
Nefretete
normal activity
onie
ozerov
panic grasses
parity drive
persevere in
platen
positive conditioned stimuli
pressure calibration
progressive wave motion
prolonge
pulse-free signal
quadrature hybrid
radiation measurement assembly
Radix motoria
read noise
red-graier
redioimmunoelectrophoresis
relay characteristics
rest-home
rototranslational
Salix opsimantha
scan image
scaningmgcroscop
screen-gri
scroll sheet liner
seable
sennin
spanne
strongly monotonic function
subsistence theory of wages
Sunipia bicolor
surrebutted
tea makers
Tenebrionoidea
thermometer correction
time fuse
travers-tile
tropical plant
undergeneralizing
working fluid heater efficiency
xylota formosana