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
Allendale Town
alterni-
aminobutyrate
Anisochilus carnosus
bahus
Bao Dai
Barbarea
be the worse of drink
benzethidine
calcic series
canvas guide
car sticker
chocolate fudge
coding form
conduction block
contourograph
convives
copper brazing alloy
cordless PBX
core beliefs
course change
Crater L.
cyprioter
dance on a volcano
day-today
direct-sum code
discrete viscoelastic spectra
diverging meniscus
double flashing light
douglasiine
drehers
drive in bank
Dunany Pt.
eat sb. out of house and home
elsewhat
ethamide
exotical
food fortification
fossilologies
gammatomograpgy
gathering into heap
general banking
groove shed insulator
hacks on
haitian centimes
hemafibrite(hemafibrite)
hereditary cerebellar sclerosis
hydrogen distribution
ikc
in corroboration of
inopinatum
interface cable
iron wire sieve
kerpows
Lake Mead
lings
media access management
multicolour brocade
neuro-ophthalmology
non-recurring gains and loss
nonconclusion
nuclear-biological-chemical protection
operand value
ophioglossum petiolatum
paluccis
Phobosuchus
plane algebraic curve
Preble County
propeller stern-tunnel
psychodramatist
reactivity shutdown
reattendances
relative knowledge
reserve tree method
resin over glue
reversible magnetic amplifier
Rox.
sclerotic osteitis
screw around with
scroll work design
scurvied
sexangle
sidewalk joist
stereolithographic
stibioniobite (stibiocolumbite)
superspreading
talecarrier
Tashiro-jima
tdh
Thayawthadangyi Kyun
the back seat
totty
trictylamine
ultraleftisms
unbecomed
unheated air dryer
unit built machine
viscoelastic fluid
wake a snake
wigner potential
wildaid
with his understanding