时间:2019-01-25 作者:英语课 分类:英语趣味课堂


英语课
Todd: So, Layla, we're talking about being an au pair. What is the daily routine 1 of an au pair? Like, what do you do everyday?
 
Layla: So, every day I wake in the morning at seven and I take care of the kids, and get them dressed. I drop them at school. After that I go to my class. I take a class, and English class, and then I pick them at 12:30 at school. And he come back at home, the kid, and he take his nap 2. After that we go to the park by car, go to the library or until the parents come back from their work.
 
Todd: That's a pretty full-day. So what's the best thing about being an au pair?
 
Layla: The best think for me I think is to meet new people and new culture, new lifestyle, and I think for me it's a very good experience.
 
Todd: Is there anything difficult about being an au pair?
 
Layla: The most difficult I think it to be far from our family because for me it's the first time so it's a little bit hard, but just one year, it's gonna be OK.
 
Todd: So, for an au pair is it your job to like cook and clean and things like that?
 
Layla: Most of the au pairs cooks for the kids and do the laundry 3. I don't. But, yeah, usually the au pairs have to clean up after the kids. Do their laundry. Clean up their bedroom, and yeah, taking care of the kids. Yeah.
 
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au pair
 
What is the daily routine of an au pair?
 
An au pair is a young person, usually a woman, who moves to another country to live with a family to take care of their children usually only for a year. Au pair is a French word. The English word is nanny, but that often refers to an older person. Notice the following:
 
We have an au pair from Belgium.
She was an au pair for a year in Holland 4.
take care of
 
I take care of the kids.
 
When you take care of someone, you look after then. You watch over them and make sure they are protected and in good condition. For example, parents usually take care of their kids, but some bad parents don't. Here are a few examples:
 
I took care of my father as he got older.
Most people like to be taken care of when they are sick.
take his nap
 
He takes his nap in the afternoon.
 
A nap is a short sleep in the daytime. Naps 5 usually last only a few hours. Children and older people often like to take naps in the afternoon. Notice the following:
 
He was fired for taking a nap at his desk.
As a kid, I hated taking naps, but now I love them.
full
 
That is a pretty full-day.
 
When something is full, that means 6 there is no space left in it, so a full-day means a day that has no free time in the schedule. Here are a few other uses using the prefix 7 full-:
 
He has a full-day planned for his day off.
He has a full-schedule all month.
do the laundry
 
I do the laundry and clean the rooms.
 
Laundry is dirty clothes, so when you do the laundry you wash the clothes. However, people usually say 'do the laundry' more often than they say 'wash the clothes'. Notice the following:
 
I love doing the laundry, but I hate ironing 8.
I usually do my laundry at the laundromat.


n.例行公事,惯例;adj.例行的,常规的
  • It is everyday routine.这是每天的例行公事。
  • She found the hospital routine slightly dull.她感到医院的工作有点枯燥乏味。
n.(白天)打瞌睡,打盹
  • The nap of the coat has been worn off.外衣上的绒毛已经磨掉了。
  • Don't bother me while I am taking my nap.我小睡的时候不要打扰我。
n.洗衣店,洗衣房;已洗好的衣物,待洗衣物
  • Please send clothes to the laundry.请把这些衣物送往洗衣店。
  • There's a lot of laundry in the basket.筐子里有许多要洗的衣物。
n.荷兰(欧洲)
  • There are many dairies in Holland.荷兰有很多牛奶场。
  • Holland is one of Germany's neighbours.荷兰是德国的邻国之一。
n.小睡,打盹( nap的名词复数 );珠皮呢
  • My grandfather naps in his armchair. 我祖父在扶手椅子上小睡。 来自辞典例句
  • The baby's regime included two naps a day. 这婴儿的生活规律包括一天小睡两次。 来自辞典例句
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
n.前缀;vt.加…作为前缀;置于前面
  • We prefix "Mr."to a man's name.我们在男士的姓名前加“先生”。
  • In the word "unimportant ","un-" is a prefix.在单词“unimportant”中“un”是前缀。
n.熨烫;刚熨好的[待熨烫的]衣物v.熨平( iron的现在分词 );用鱼叉叉(鱼);用铁铸成;给…加铁具(以使牢固)
  • to do the ironing 熨衣服
  • I scorched my dress when I was ironing it. 我把自己的连衣裙熨焦了。
学英语单词
acetate cellulose fibre
aerodynamic loading
agricultural fertilizer
akebia pentaphylla mak.
altitude above sea level
automatic lubricating device
auxiliary crate controller
available capacity
bank reinstatement method
bedizenment
bituminous priming solution
black and white group
Brownville Junction
bumetopia lanshuana
capillary bronchitis
carpodes
chemical glassware
choice activity
coded automatic gain control
contra-regularity
cost maintenance
counteractions
Crataegus oxycantha
cryoprecipitating
Cynanchum bicampanulatum
dip from
dissipative material
dividends receivable account
duck belting
dye leveller
East Aberthaw
elastic hysteresis loop
electric furnace steelmaking
emission point
emptying outlet
epigastric reflex
falling step
fast Fourier transform algorithm
fault-secure
forward reflection
g?-protein
galdosian
genus Phalanger
give the law to
Gordie Howe
GP (gauge pressure)
greca
haemorrhagic septicemia
haryencephalia
hedgehoggy
high strength alloy steel
immeshing
impact loan
in large print
intelli-sense
internal void fraction
Jigawa State
laike
lobbying expenses
meters per second
middle sample
Mittellandkanal
munge
number of flutes
off-line application
Ohlenstedt
overstrows
ownership of land
Pantholin
pavetta pulcherima
pentahydroborite
pneumatolytic metamorphism
pole height
precision code
pressure gauge with bakelite case
principle of action and reaction
pseudaletia unipunctas
pseudobarbella levieri(ren et gard)nog
psychophants
public welfare payment
rainbow sprinkler
random parameter system
rectifying developable surface
Regio antebrachialis anterior
rim-jobs
sanitary disposal
selforganizing system
Sergines
shihchienfang series
spy glass
stiff-tailed ducks
strip to the waist
taken up the gauntlet
tendon tube
the worst
therapeutic serum
tree function
trenching sampling
unsweat
uphigh
X-radiation X
zebrinus