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
afterward
alexandrite
ammonium fluoscandate
anorthoclase phonolite
anticollision computer
assembly key
autonyms
auxiliary feed check valve
bakeable
betrayingly
bulbus vestibuli
Bullet Redemption
C-chart
calcium-fortified
capillaritis
coincidence gate signal
color phase
computer-processing system
corner boy
creeping bugles
crude whizzed naphthalene
cuddlier
decisionbox
demecarium bromide
Douchy-les-Mines
dredge pipe line
Durfee square
exclusive privilege
family of curve
forage corn harvester
free-spiro union
genus scillas
glutamic acid(glu)
hexagon head bolt
Holms
horizontal optimeter
hybrid microelectronics
isooptoacoustic
JFMC
judith r.
Kehoite
kenora
laryngotracheoplasty
logic low
mechanical impurity
meretriciousness
mine valuation
montreal
morganti
Morton, Jelly Roll
msdp
mufakat
mushroomer
niebuhrs
Nizhniy Mamon
NRTL equation
O-type gun
pacific bonitoes
peak magnitude
pelvic fin
petroleum jellies
plum yew
polyacetylenic ester
pregrounding
programme evlution
pseudo code
rayos
reference column
relacquered
related term
resting mark
right crosses
rottings
rounds on
sagebrush lizard
samarium oxalate
saunders
self-explanatory
set a price on one's head
setbuf
Seychelles Bank
sharp resonance
short-timest
standby operational program
Sterigmatocystis
synergid embryo
tax for the examination of deeds
Tetrastigma cruciatum
thattaboy
theory of science and technology
tilt cylinder
traveling tower
triple-length
trochantin(e)
typical compound
ULMS
Vermiglio
VHF linear amplifier
wood packing
yarco
yarn trap
Zarra