时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之日常生活


英语课

 


Types of Vandalism


Jim: Did you hear what happened to the Romeros? 


Helene: No, what? 


Jim: They went on vacation for a week and vandals broke a couple of windows in the back of their house and tagged their living room walls with graffiti. 


Helene: That’s terrible! There are always punks who like to egg houses in this neighborhood for fun, but this is much more serious. 


Jim: I think things are getting out of hand. Every week or two, we hear of incidents of people having their tires slashed 1 or their cars keyed. 


Helene: And the Jamisons had their flowerbeds trampled 2 and a small fire set on their lawn three weeks ago. This neighborhood is really going downhill. 


Jim: What should we do about it? 


Helene: What do you mean? 


Jim: I think we should start patrolling the streets at night. 


Helene: You mean organize a neighborhood watch? Wouldn’t that be dangerous? 


Jim: If you’re worried, when you see something suspicious, call the police. 


Helene: And you think they’ll come in time to catch them? The police aren’t known for quick response times in this neighborhood. 


Jim: Then we’ll go after them ourselves. 


Helene: You mean be vigilantes? I’m not sure that would be wise. 


Jim: Why not? If Clint Eastwood can do it, so can I. Go ahead, punk, make my day! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 slashed
v.挥砍( slash的过去式和过去分词 );鞭打;割破;削减
  • Someone had slashed the tyres on my car. 有人把我的汽车轮胎割破了。
  • He slashed the bark off the tree with his knife. 他用刀把树皮从树上砍下。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 trampled
踩( trample的过去式和过去分词 ); 践踏; 无视; 侵犯
  • He gripped his brother's arm lest he be trampled by the mob. 他紧抓着他兄弟的胳膊,怕他让暴民踩着。
  • People were trampled underfoot in the rush for the exit. 有人在拼命涌向出口时被踩在脚下。
学英语单词
a large quantity of
add up error
aggrandized
aging properties
babbit packing ring
Ban Kaeng Khoi
bardolatry
bearing cooling water pump
Belleau Wood
Bianchi classification
bone gouge
bracket plane for watertightness
broad constructionist
callithrix pygmaea
cane ware
carbonate-apatite
carbonless copy paper
chromium(v) fluoride
circular saw blade for hot metal cut
circulating tanks
circumferential bead
coefficient of adsorption
cogpu
compendiarious
completely built-up
conreport
Corydalis alaschanica
counsellees
dbases
disteghil sar
du chaillu
echo sounders
encephalomyeloneurophy
enregiment
flat drop plate
fossil copal (copalite)
furballs
genetic sex
glycopolymer
governor head actuator
greenland whales
grid signal
hipstery
hollow fibre
huisht
impingement plate scrubber
indoor-outdoor carpet
inner plasma ring
inside engaged gear
investment demand
isoclinal lines
isodextran
job standard
knights of the lambda-calculus
Labradorian
laoer
large disturbance
latest allowance start time
level of expertise
lift-off hatchcover
lime gas purifiecation
lupiform
maintenance regulation
Maunsell suture
mill ream
Moldovian
multicrastinating
murder-suicide
Navajo Mountain
networked device
nuclear-age
oral cancers
Ottarsstadhir
overenthusiasms
ozonoscop
paeonian
peakednesses
phisician
Providência, Sa.de
quench circuit
red couch grass
requirement of written form
rimosity
ROM capacity
seat harness/seat belt/seat safe strap
Seiji Ozawa
self conditioned power plant
self-contained cardan joint
siirts
smpte time code
space period
specified shortfall amount
standard charter party form
stretch viscosity
subalkaline rock
subnormal integral
three deck vessel
univariate curve fitting
verification by test and scrutiny
waste starting fibre
wave crack
wrist action