时间:2019-01-25 作者:英语课 分类:英语趣味课堂


英语课

 Silvia: So talking about Mexican celebrations, is Independence Day and Cinco De Mayo the same thing?


 
Diego: No, no, no. They're very different. Actually, Independence Day is celebrated 1 the 15th and 16th of September and Cinco De Mayo is celebrated the fifth of May.
 
Silvia: And why do people always confuse Cinco De Mayo with Independence Day?
 
Diego: That is a very good question and I don't really have an answer for it, but a lot of my friends who are from different countries, especially Europe and the United States. Every time it's like the 5th of May, they want to celebrate with me as if it were a very, very Mexican holiday, and it's a bit surprising because we don't think it's that important in Mexico.
 
Silvia: So why do you think it got so famous?
 
Diego: I don't know. Maybe it has a catchy 2 name or something, but the holiday of Cinco de Mayo is basically 3 when the Mexican Army won against the French Army, and it was a very unlikely 4 battle, and it all started because of a French bakery getting burned and we called it like the battle of the cakes.
 
Silvia: That's a funny name.
 
Diego: Yeah, it's a funny name. It's a bit ironic 5 because it all started out of this little bakery getting burned and then the French declared war with Mexico and then we won so I guess that's why.
 
Silvia: What do they do for that day? In the States I think they celebrate it right?
 
Diego: I think they celebrate it and as you know there's a large community of like Mexican Americans, so they do celebrate and they probably get together, eat and maybe drink a little.
 
重点词汇:
 

Learn Vocabulary from the Lesson
confuse
 
People confuse Cinco De Mayo with Independence Day.
 
We confuse something with another thing when we mix them in our mind. Notice the samples.
 
On TV, I sometimes confuse Arsenal 6 with Man U. They both wear red uniforms.
In written English, many people confuse ‘effect’ with ‘affect’.
as if
 
People want to celebrate as if it was a Mexican holiday.
 
We use the phrase 'as if ' to show what something or someone is like. Here are two sample sentences.
 
It looks as if it’s going to rain.
you sound as if you are not happy with your new job.
catchy name
 
It has a catchy name.
 
Something that’s catchy is easy to remember. Notice the following.
 
Blackberry is a great phone with a catchy name.
I’m not an Oasis 7 fan, but their songs sure are catchy.
unlikely
 
It was a very unlikely battle.
 
‘Unlikely’ talks about something we don’t think or expect to happen. Here are two examples using unlikely’:
 
It’s unlikely Team USA will win the World Cup anytime soon.
I didn’t study last night, so it’s unlikely I’ll pass the test today.
declare war
 
The French declared war after the bakery was burned down.
 
In this example, ‘declare war’ means for a government to publicly and officially announce plans to go to war. See the samples below.
 
After the country was attacked, it declared war the next day.
In the United States, the president does not have the power to declare war. He or she must seek the approval 8 of congress 9.


adj.有名的,声誉卓著的
  • He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
  • The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
adj.易记住的,诡诈的,易使人上当的
  • We need a new slogan.The old one's not catchy enough.我们需要新的口号,旧的不够吸引人。
  • The chorus is very catchy to say the least.副歌部分很容易上口。
adv.基本上,从根本上说
  • His heart is basically sound.他的心脏基本上健康。
  • Basically I agree with your plan.我基本上同意你的计划。
adj.未必的,多半不可能的;不大可能发生的
  • It was very unlikely that he would do that.他不见得会做那种事。
  • It is unlikely that she will come. 她不大可能来了。
adj.讽刺的,有讽刺意味的,出乎意料的
  • That is a summary and ironic end.那是一个具有概括性和讽刺意味的结局。
  • People used to call me Mr Popularity at high school,but they were being ironic.人们中学时常把我称作“万人迷先生”,但他们是在挖苦我。
n.兵工厂,军械库
  • Even the workers at the arsenal have got a secret organization.兵工厂工人暗中也有组织。
  • We must be the great arsenal of democracy.我们必须成为民主的大军火库。
n.(沙漠中的)绿洲,宜人的地方
  • They stopped for the night at an oasis.他们在沙漠中的绿洲停下来过夜。
  • The town was an oasis of prosperity in a desert of poverty.该镇是贫穷荒漠中的一块繁荣的“绿洲”。
n.赞成,同意;批准,认可
  • The audience has expressed its approval.观众已经认可。
  • The teacher signed his approval.老师做了手势表示同意。
n.(代表)大会;(C-:美国等国的)国会,议会
  • There were some days to wait before the Congress.大会的召开还有几天时间。
  • After 18 years in Congress,he intented to return to private life.在国会供职18年后,他打算告老还乡。
学英语单词
4-Pyridoxate
adaptive predicative coding
aeromagnetic exploration
agrilus auropictus
Algerian Saharan Arabic
Alice-Josephine Pons
Anynet
Asian-Pacific Postal Union
autogreets
ballast scarifier
Barnby Dun
beat someone's head off
blade shielding
buccopharyngeal epithelium
bureau of the census
calculated gas velocity
call-sign
carinal canal
choke block
concealed-carry
conformal cylindrical projection
control integrated circuit
convexedness
cudi deresi
current market-value
cusp beach
cyphonantes
Dirico
disembargo
Divine Liturgy
dollkind
epidermal cancer
equation of radiative transfer
equatorial quantum number
expanding band clutch
facio-cervical lifting
fast-forwardeds
Featherville
film layer
first-naming
fixed-gate generator
fourbis
Frequency shift telegraphy.
Gcaleka
gigaspora pellucida
granitell
gutturalize
high-speed data
holiday homes
infilling well
initial ladders
Jasdorf
khaph
leasehold obligation
leather-wrapped
Ligamentum nuchae
look straight ahead
lymphocytotropic
malamanteaus
melinite
molecular make-up
neriene fusca
newly-publisheds
non-pollutive technology
of wide distribution
olax wightiana wall. ex wight et am.
opposite-field
optical length
ossa wormi
otitis mucosis
pendentive bracketing
polys
posttraumatic epilepsy
predicted values
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pullinsi
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re-call
roston
running torque-frequency characteristic
salt eutectic
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snecked rubble wall
solution casting
Spruceton
stomachings
Strikes Risks
stubblefield
survey of gender equality in the workplace
taisha
thick-knit
Trojanów
troubetzkoy
Valais, Alps
Verkhnyaya Taymyra
vitamin-e
water violets
wilted point
world market price
xerotropism
xiaojin mini-pills