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
abdiass
aeroconcrete
Agade
Aggtelek
alternative norm
alwalton
amc
annual vote
antherea mylitta
assorted jam
AUTHGRA
basal film
beet massecuite
bit array
bituminous glass fabric felt
Boumort
brainish
Buchan Ness
cable casing
cavosurface angle
Celemin, Embalse de
childmindings
coal magazine
codariocalyxes
collective self reliance
competitive protein-binding technique
current string
cyanobenzylchloride
desynonymy
distinctnesses
divergence difficulty
Drury Lane Theatre
equivalent linear damping
european association for animation films
exhaust whistle
fanlisting
filament saturation
forest resource data base
freeze etch replica
frogly
gasoline performance
Gounkparé
hand someone off
hebb
hypoplastrons
in action
insulation puncture
integrated international products
interturn short circuit test
intervals
IRQLs
keep on deck
Koje-do
Kowon
lady-love
Laroche-St-Cydroine
lateritic soils
Lepiota clypeolaria
lionhead cichlids
Luhe-Wildenau
macrencranus
Mesona
Mib, Jab.
Microtropis
mousavi
movement blur
ncleotoxin
netmeeting
non-metal lining
null lens
oriented hyperplane
panathenaia
pay someone back in their own coin
perception without awareness
pimplelike
polyphasic allometry
Ranunculus morii
recanvased
remote-type coupling
round middle file
SAW device
sensory load
separation of isotopes
ship out
sidney-hook
sill anchor
sitz-bath
solar shortwave radiation
spillproof
st. mary magdalens
streak
teinds
thirled
Thithia I.
throw a switch
tin dichloride
tri-lobe cam
Tsiangia
two and a plack
Ungulinidae
water retted flax
Yangana