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
a stuffed shirt
acoustic delay line memory
anodic polishing
anti-reversing clutch
appeal to crown court
assigning authorities
assyst
blepharitis phlegmonosa
Bois Blanc I.
calleystone
carbarns
cerotic acids
Chaseville
climb hobbing
congress Ohm (legal ohm)
continuous versus intermittent models
coroglaucigenin
correspondense principle
councillor i.
crfs
diaziquone
Dietkirchen
distributed locking algorithm
dual tandem shaker
dynamo condenser
expenseful
Fatoya
fault outlier
Fido, FIDOdos
figure thread
flapping sound
fontarsen
foul beach
frame output transformer
full control component
galewes
ganglionic commissure
generator star point
genus gaultherias
global structural resonance
go through the mill
golson
guard ring
Gyrolab
head passing
Herrera style
horizontes
Hylocomiaceae
hypocrisy
intermittent peritoneal dialysis
intifadas
ixtle
Jinnah, Mohammed Ali
john chapmen
judicial personnel
kathon
keep cave
kiefer-wolfowitz process
Kocsola
lagh
load program(me)
lometraline
loquent
Mbandjok
meat preserve
Moslemization
Multitest
nauplii stage
Neoptera
nittiest
on invitation
optimal circular arc interpolation
Pedicularis physocalyx
phillippi
photoelectric cell unit
planar discontinuous group
Planned Parenthood-World Population
positively biased
process engineer
pterogeina eurysterna
quintuplet elliptic spring
radar range marker
radwaste log sheet
Rayleigh-Jeans formula
rotary tablet machine
scram rod actuator
sexadecimal number systems
shear compliance
side with
single virtual storage system
slumgullions
socks in
subfamily Corylaceae
substantial uncertainty
Thevenin
toiletless
unbereaved
Ursus middendorffi
veronicastrum virginicums
vigilance ring
wages-earner
white hole