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
accite
ala alba medialis
Andijk
antiloimic
arteriae fossae Sylvii
ASIC (application specific integrated circuit)
Banawaya, Pulau
be in a rush
bryan and cox model
bunger hills
burgage
burner band
cach
capitals of azerbaijan
carrageen carragheen
CD Recordable Drive
Chimkent
chop-shop
concave disk colter
crank angle
current-type flowmeter
cytolytic T lymphocyte
dears
decoy away
diesel fuel oil
digital arithmetic
dinadan
document per minute
Ejer Bavnehφj
electrogravitic
EMS memory locked
escaped
exchange law
fail safe brake
femina
fine wire
FrTBI
GaAs light source
governmental export authorization
halpynworth
hand-operated grinder
heins
Hlwaza
hotsy-totsies
hydrogen nitride
hypoplastron
interacting adsorbate
Kronecker delta
lead-foot
life-sentence
Lignerolle
lpci pump discharge pressure
lunaire
lynn redgrave
Marbleton
mastfeet
mesona chinensis benth.
metacestodes
mountain ashes
multiple separator
napperkids
natural depressions
next lower echelon
noise track
Object of Maritime Lien
oblong photography
olde-worldes
Oppeln(Opole)
optically oriented clays
ordinary link
outwith
parsys
petitioners
phaeophytin
pie menus
polypoid adenocarcinoma
prismatic colours
propjet engine
radiating crack
real number line
Reserve Bank of New Zealand
rhizautoicous
Risālāpur
roller squeezing apparatus
safe-conduct
satin bird
seasonal callus
setaria italica stramineofructas
smelting reduction process
specific rate of heat flow
straight-line cooler
super-vital
thraustochytrium roseum
tonology
total hardware system
toxilogy
ungetting
urethral muscle (or wilson's muscle)
verrucous carcinoma
wave variability
wide-screen film
zygotene stage