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
acromorph
active comsat
ahmadiyya
Aichwara
alignment prism
allen sentence completion test
arc-flash
autodyne radio fuze
awarded marks
back tool rest
back-up
bad block data
be hit
Blumea eberhardtii
casts aside
CE-MRA
chronic intoxication
cling like a leech
coherent light travelling wave modulator
continuous-running pto
contractability
control generator
conventional true value of a material measure
Cottage Grove
crystal ether
date compiled
dehydroroemerine
diffusion theory
dirty proof
drop dimes
Dryopithecus keiyuanensis
ductus endolymphaticus
erosion-littoral fauna
European pine-shoot moth
frame structure
FWB
general immunization
geographical circuitry
gettering container
gigantic jet
global kinematics matrix
good sport
gravylle
have a bone to pick with someone
hexadecyls
Hicks broad-leaf
high moisture grains
high-vacuum orbital simulator
hypersonic flight environment simulator
illegitinate combination
in situ stress
indicator-yellow
intervening
is in the air
Jedward
jhampan
lentils
Luia
macrocracking
Mallier chart
mentimete
military deception
N-methyl-o-acetotoluide
Nairobi
net average kinetic load
network object
North Umpqua R.
opportunity-to-learn
orientation polarizability
part-time farming
pbbs
postnarial
power line terminal
pretermits
priority inversion
program name
propellant force
reinstock
reorient
rosacrucian
Russey Srok
salisbury cure
second derivative action
sialotelangiectasis
site office
sliva
spadices
Sulfaisodimerazine
tank sludge
Themar
tienmuliluminine
transverse palatine ridge
Truebies
two-to-one ratio
typed memory pool
union representative
unitively
vitelluss
war-ridden
water cooling pond
waveguide electro-optic prism
xiphodynia