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
abruptus
acarpellous
accidental load
age-inhibiting additive
air combat
alloy-junction transistor
ambu facepiece
antimony rod
author's proof
automobile exhaust
auxiliary differential equation
basic amplification
big toe
blankenbaker
boroaluminate
bounded set of real numbers
breach of constitution
breches
breweresses
Busra
calculus of probabilities
cheilalgia
chronic lipoid nephrosis
citycentric
clinitest
continuous clasp
correctionss
cross bite
current chart
deaverages
depression of cataract depression
Didinium
dissymmetric(al)
drying drum
energy of signed integral
epanaphoras
epoxynovacine
Eureka Glacier
eversion of lower lip
fast beating
feedforward control action
feuilles
floating add
fumerell
genus lepidothamnuss
gutter bunny
h-chymase
headerthresher
hematochrome
honeycreeper
hyperlipidaemic
igad
in-situ check and test method
jacobson's gland
jet leg
Kalmar War
Kotikovo
lacerate foramen
liaotung anteklise
mantleless
Marconi commutator
maximum starting current
microforaminifera
muraqabah
natural zone
non-performing asset
Novichikhinskiy Rayon
osteohalisteresis
outhandling
oxynitroso
pay schedule
peek-a-boo bras
penlights
phone application
policemanly
pretightening up force
principal sentence
protection panel
real-time manufacturing information control system
recorder sensitivity
resignaled
reward structure
right hand magneto
riparian right
Sarcite
selene
semifermentation
shotted fused alloy
single pique
sitting toilet
Southern Alps
speculative trade
stroganoff
subsortition
the chance
Tlayacapan
tripped over
varial
vertex of switch
voltage flicker
wrinkled surface
wussup