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
A-certificate
alderwoods
atom-meter
be on tour
benighters
bevyr
biotitite
bitstone
Boguszów-Gorce
break me down
brick-and-mortars
British standard beam
carree
cast steel products
certification program
charged pressure
chromatic partition
chyladenectasis
come to blows
construction reserve fund
Cordioxol
cryogenic zone
datsun
diamonnd winding
dimethylformamides
documents per minute
earthside
elasticity number
electrostatic electron gun
espina
exbi-
extraterrestrial chemistry
family tachyglossidaes
fatigue-based
forepeople
format generator
gear pair with intersecting axes
gigalitre
give sb. the stick
gloeosporium coffeicola ramulicola
good neighbour policy
Gran Malvina, I.(West Falkland, I.)
Hitler mustaches
Ilgǒn
jump down one's throat
keep out of
kinetic energy of wave
law of propagation of errors
ligamentum intramuscularium
lividness
magnetic quadrupole lens
majoun
mean time between significant failure
moisture-wicking
monkey spoon
multiprogram access
Nasoreans
None of that!
not have a good word for someone
nxt
oil lubricant
on axis chopper blade
onoes
original plasticity
Orisul
Peale, Raphaelle
Pennington Gap
period-reactivity conversion factor
polyterpene resin
processing natural gasoling
promethium(Pr)
psammaquent
re-FIFO
registered secondary offering
retaining click
rotating-magnet magneto
salvarsan milk
seas of marmara
serv-
shatfords
Siljansnäs
Skene's catheter
smear survey
smirkingly
smoored
snashes
solar home
sottely
sound man
Strong's bacillus
telex switchboard
the devil's books
thermalelectric type air conditioner
to plough
torpefied
trachyte porphyry
tremella
Triclinofoshagite
twitling
two-way radiotelephone apparatus
unreel
ventilating network