时间:2018-11-27 作者:英语课 分类:赖世雄学英语第二册


英语课

  Lesson 8

Bill Clinton

Text:

Bill Clinton took office on January, 20th, 1993 and became the 42nd US president. He was the first US president born after World War II. He is also one of the youngest of all US presidents. Clinton was born into a poor family in 1946. Three month before he was born, his father, William Blake died. When he was small, his mother remarried. Her new husband’s name was Norge Clinton. So the boy’s family name was changed. In the summer of 1963, Clinton was invited to visit Washington 1 D.C. During his visit, he made President Candidate 2 in the White House. At that time he knew he wanted to be an American president. He made his dream come true.

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Bill Clinton took office on January, 20th, 1993 and became the 42nd US president. He was the first US president born after World War II. He is also one of the youngest of all US presidents. Clinton was born into a poor family in 1946. Three month before he was born, his father, William Blake died. When he was small, his mother remarried. Her new husband’s name was Norge Clinton. So the boy’s family name was changed. In the summer of 1963, Clinton was invited to visit Washington D.C. During his visit, he made President Candidate in the White House. At that time he knew he wanted to be an American president. He made his dream come true.

Dialogue:

President Clinton

Woman: I think Bill Clinton is a good president.

Man: But he has sex scandal 3.

Woman: Well. Maybe he isn’t a good husband, but he is a successful president.

Man: I agree. He is also an excellent speaker.

Woman: Yes, he is. Of course he makes mistakes, but who doesn’t.

Man: yeah, it’s fair to say so.



1 Washington
n.华盛顿特区(是美国首都)
  • His birthplace is Washington,but he lives in San Francisco.他出生于华盛顿,但住在旧金山。
  • They, together with my father,have gone to Washington.他们和我父亲一起去华盛顿了。
2 candidate
n.候选人;候补者;投考者,申请求职者
  • Voters like a candidate who has the common touch. 投票者喜欢那些平易近人的候选人。
  • The local newspapers dressed up the candidate as a boxer.当地报纸把那个候选人描绘成一个拳击手。
3 scandal
n.丑事,丑闻,流言蜚语,反感,愤慨
  • Scandal and gossip are meat and drink to him.各种丑闻和流言蜚语是他最感兴趣的事。
  • His theft from the shop caused scandal in the village.他因偷商店的东西引起全村的公愤。
学英语单词
6-Hydroxyflavanone
ACCI
admireth
anchoate
artistic touch
auto-icons
away with you
Bengal foxes
Benvenuto Cellini
Bersenbrück
blast gun
Blerancourt
body whorl
bst
capsuls
carbon tool steel drill
carotinoid
closed harbor
clued in
clyde hill
compressor impeller
consumption test
diffusion flux
discounts
downhole steam generator
draft payable with terms
Duna-phorine
Euonymus hainanensis
fiber-optic current sensor
flooding line
Fostex
Gacaan, Raas
gggccc
green fluorescent protein
gross ceiling
guardedly
Hejian
hoist slack-brake switch
hot re-pressing
iccprs
infidelic
instant lottery
intradermic anaphylactic reaction
Invulnerability Device
KPK
Kφge
Laurent polarimeter
lay ... in
lead optimization
line bend
Linlithgowshire
locked cable
mappy tongue
marine transportation engineering
maritime conference
meat material
mediopatellar
membranocanreous
mensurational unit
micro-module
municipal elections
mutter to oneself
nano farad
Neolithic Revolution
nykarleby (uusikaarlepyy)
occupation forces
ole transaction identifier
omphalophyma
optical pulse counting
orange peel infusion
pace setter
pachycerina javana
parameter design
plfa
pole-mounting type
pole-vault
press offices
primary measuring instrument
purgotives
Qurayyah, Jab.
retexturizing
rhizopus chinensis rugosporus
salpingopalatine
sea ash
self-belief
shintenensis
simple syphilitic retinitis
small scale map
Sobolevskiy Rayon
spongiosclerosis
spsusbslsiscs-s
stiff straw
strychninize
suder
symbol manipulating language
Tamayama
testing jack
unionise
uselessest
voucher register
working capital suspense
xenomorphicgranular