时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2013年ESL之日常生活


英语课

 


Showing Signs of Age


Julian: What is that, another gray hair?! My hair is already thinning on top. I don’t need more gray hairs. 


Vera: I think salt and pepper hair looks great on men. It makes them look distinguished 1


Julian: It makes them look old. Thank God I don’t have a receding 2 hairline – yet. 


Vera: When you get to be my age, you won’t worry so much about graying hair. There are a lot of other things to worry about. 


Julian: Like what? 


Vera: Forget I mentioned it. Showing signs of age isn’t something to be lamented 3. It’s natural and part of maturing as a person. It gives you character. 


Julian: Stop being evasive. Like what? 


Vera: Okay, like wrinkles and age spots, deafness and memory loss. 


Julian: Gee 4, thanks. If I ever need to talk someone off a ledge 5, I’ll give you a call! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 distinguished
adj.卓越的,杰出的,著名的
  • Elephants are distinguished from other animals by their long noses.大象以其长长的鼻子显示出与其他动物的不同。
  • A banquet was given in honor of the distinguished guests.宴会是为了向贵宾们致敬而举行的。
2 receding
v.逐渐远离( recede的现在分词 );向后倾斜;自原处后退或避开别人的注视;尤指问题
  • Desperately he struck out after the receding lights of the yacht. 游艇的灯光渐去渐远,他拼命划水追赶。 来自辞典例句
  • Sounds produced by vehicles receding from us seem lower-pitched than usual. 渐渐远离我们的运载工具发出的声似乎比平常的音调低。 来自辞典例句
3 lamented
adj.被哀悼的,令人遗憾的v.(为…)哀悼,痛哭,悲伤( lament的过去式和过去分词 )
  • her late lamented husband 她那令人怀念的已故的丈夫
  • We lamented over our bad luck. 我们为自己的不幸而悲伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 gee
n.马;int.向右!前进!,惊讶时所发声音;v.向右转
  • Their success last week will gee the team up.上星期的胜利将激励这支队伍继续前进。
  • Gee,We're going to make a lot of money.哇!我们会赚好多钱啦!
5 ledge
n.壁架,架状突出物;岩架,岩礁
  • They paid out the line to lower him to the ledge.他们放出绳子使他降到那块岩石的突出部分。
  • Suddenly he struck his toe on a rocky ledge and fell.突然他的脚趾绊在一块突出的岩石上,摔倒了。
学英语单词
a sponge
alphabetic telegram
armatureless
Baclon
bambusaceous
bare L-square
Barthelme Donald
besra
Bullitt, William Christian
check spring stroke
chicken snakes
chiming with
cinnamomun argenteum gamble
colpohysteropexy
commemoratives
complementary transcription
controller storage save
converter set
dance of life (egypt)
departure lounge
doggest
double barrel
Edsele
emergency rescue
erection insurance
fall out
feedback forecast
fishpole bamboo
Fossa supratonsillaris
globulitic limestone
grena
Halimocnemis
hammar magnet
harmonic functions
harsh breath sounds
heavy duty mirror bracket
Hennies
heterophenogamy
high frequency amperemeter
high-frequency induction annealing
iliopectineal ligament
indirect-cooled desuperheater
insurance firm
iron(iii) arsenate
kleene hierarchy
Klondiking
kolya
kunfort
lemnian reddle
leucone
log-log plot
look through one's fingers upon
luminance detector
Léminga
mapping array
mop bucket
natrosol
nephelometry
net injection volume
niete mts.(putu ra.)
nitrifying
objectionable odor
open circuit jack
orchis fauriei finet
ossificans
overcheek
oxidative carbamylation
page perforation
peribiliary
phase motion
porphyrilic acid
post-Potter depression
pratingly
prosop
public spirited
recessed loop aerial
refractive ametropia
refresh display
rutherford birchard hayess
Sarco, R.
Schrodinger picture
Scombrolabracoidei
scoress
senear-usher syndrome(pemphigus erythematosus)
service radius
shockman
space-bandwidth product
subdichotomies
supersonic density transmitter
tape synchronizer
tenaeity
thermomachanical treatment
Thomas Kelly
tool station
toplins
tricho
trichohyalins
voluntary obligatory right
wests-south-wests
william cullen bryant
x-press