时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2013年ESL之日常生活


英语课

 


Being a Stay-at-Home Dad


Gladys: Hi, Dan. I’m surprised to see you here at the supermarket in the middle of the day. 


Dan: Why? 


Gladys: I thought you’d be working. 


Dan: I am working. I’m a stay-at-home dad and I take care of the kids while my wife goes to work. 


Gladys: Oh, did you get laid off from your job? 


Dan: No, my wife works full-time 1 out of the house and I work full-time at home. 


Gladys: You mean that your wife is the breadwinner and you’re a househusband? 


Dan: If you want to put it that way, yes. I’m the caretaker for the kids during the day and I do the household chores. 


Gladys: Oh, your wife must be a feminist 2. 


Dan: No, my wife is just a modern woman with modern sensibilities. 


Gladys: Well, I know that some families like to live radical 3 lifestyles these days, changing up gender 4 roles. 


Dan: We don’t think of it as radical. In fact, it’s quite common nowadays. 


Gladys: if you say so. Tell your wife I’d be happy to share my recipes with her when you go back to work and she’s a housewife again. 


Dan: [sigh] 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 full-time
adj.满工作日的或工作周的,全时间的
  • A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
  • I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顾家庭又要全天工作,我不知道她是如何对付的。
2 feminist
adj.主张男女平等的,女权主义的
  • She followed the feminist movement.她支持女权运动。
  • From then on,feminist studies on literature boomed.从那时起,男女平等受教育的现象开始迅速兴起。
3 radical
n.激进份子,原子团,根号;adj.根本的,激进的,彻底的
  • The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
  • She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。
4 gender
n.(生理上的)性,(名词、代词等的)性
  • French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语,所有的名词都有性。
  • Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。
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ASAT (auxiliary storage allocation table)
atomic molecule
barrelss
bilge-well
bitmasking
bounded closed regions
bow piece
calvet
catalysis polymerization drying
cengle
chartale
chemical non-equilibrium
choloid
cinology
color break-up
contract surgeon
contusion tuberculosis
cool-summer damage due to impotency
dictamens
discipher
distylium chinense diels
Dwight D. Eisenhower
East African subregion
electronic counter-measures receiver
escape of air
expenditure in constant dollar
forest conservancy area
hand-wringer
hofstadters
hog-nose
hydrogen disulphide
Indian arrowroot
intermolecular relaxation
Irba
Iron County
irrenderable
kallestad
lag rule
lance-pointed needle
late catatonia
leaf-moulds
linsidomine
low-teches
lycophytas
maturationally
mean cell transfer delay
Mehemet, Ali
millia
Monkey-Eating
multi-tool camshaft lathe
negative-pressure
network in telecontrol
nicolosi
night goggle readable (ngr)
Nitadon
nontribal
nuclear ship certificate
on the lay
ossa intermedium
otitis mastoidea
overabundances
parameter extraction
part from
pasigraphic
peak-to-valley
Pezizaceae
pines for
plowed plot
podding
powell creek
Prochilodontinae
Puzla
raked over
Ramus externus
right of assembly
right of the consignee
rolling country
rotating vane pump
rugosity
saxby
seagirdle
secure unit
size applicator
solicitor's account
spiral mixer
spirographis porphyrin(e)
standard white plate
switch on a chip
syntax controlled generator
tax-information
tesoroes
thinnish
toilet powders
trade access
typewriter with carbon ribbon
veblens
ver tiginous
vetiver oil
voltage wave
voter's card
warrenership
wet commodities