时间:2019-01-28 作者:英语课 分类:英语博客 A cup of English


英语课

  Dark nights, twinkling lights.

Beginners.

It gets dark here in Wenatchee at about four thirty in the afternoon now. My children often ask me what the time is, or whether they need to get ready for bed, when it is still early. It can be a little confusing. One thing that I like to do quite soon in the Winter, is to put Christmas lights up on the trees outside the house. They are so pretty. Also, the children play outside longer when there are different lights outside. Some of the businesses in town have already decorated their buildings and landscaping. It encourages people to keep shopping. We have lights of many different colors. My favorites are green and blue. Some people in our neighborhood really go to town with the lights. Infact, there is a competition held every year for the best decorated house. People drive around the town to 'Christmas light spot'. They drive up to and admire the prettiest houses.

Grammar notes.

Related expressions: to get light/ dark; to get ready for bed; outside/ inside; buildings; landscaping; to decorate; favorite; to drive around.

Advanced

I must be a big kid at heart, because this time of year is special for me. Obviously, with Thanksgiving and Christmas around the corner, there is a lot of preparation and decorating. The dark nights and lack of sky light are compensated 2 for by all the twinkly lights in town. Some neighborhoods look like Las Vegas. It can become a real show piece, and, at the very least, a cheery sight to view from a car. We usually start the festivities early, by decorating the trees outside. You can hear the "Oooh", and "aaah", from adults and children alike when they see the lights. When a pine tree is decorated with green, it glows magically. And when it is covered with blue lights, it has a cool, mysterious shine. I think that most people appreciate the beauty of the lights. There is work involved in putting the lights up, though. It can be a tricky 3 job. In fact, many people end up in the emergency room because of falls from ladders or electrocution. Well, I hope that won't be my fate this year; I will be extra careful. Just you wait until my trees are decorated. There will certainly be pictures on this web site of all the colors and twinkling lights.

Grammar notes.

Related vocabulary: around the corner = coming soon; a lack of....; to compensate 1; a show piece; at the very least; cheery; a tricky job; emergency room; ladder; electrocution; fate.



vt.补偿,赔偿;酬报 vi.弥补;补偿;抵消
  • She used her good looks to compensate her lack of intelligence. 她利用她漂亮的外表来弥补智力的不足。
  • Nothing can compensate for the loss of one's health. 一个人失去了键康是不可弥补的。
补偿,报酬( compensate的过去式和过去分词 ); 给(某人)赔偿(或赔款)
  • The marvelous acting compensated for the play's weak script. 本剧的精彩表演弥补了剧本的不足。
  • I compensated his loss with money. 我赔偿他经济损失。
adj.狡猾的,奸诈的;(工作等)棘手的,微妙的
  • I'm in a rather tricky position.Can you help me out?我的处境很棘手,你能帮我吗?
  • He avoided this tricky question and talked in generalities.他回避了这个非常微妙的问题,只做了个笼统的表述。
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air conditioning system cooling inlet
asian-foods
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association fee
aurrel
axis of symmetry
BDV (blow-down valve)
berkebile
bicetre
blabery
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broad-spectrum antibiotic
capping inversion (layer)
carbamic acid methyl ester
cargo sparring
chimoto
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coagulation coefficient
column conditioning
companionways
cosine-fourth law
descending phase
double-split bearing ring
drainage of bone abscess
dust-collecter
Egretta thula
Egyptian ornament
Elixicon
erec
expansion shock
externally ventilated machine
fessada
fiber optic thermometer
fluidogram
fomentress
forbidden kingdom
freefloating
Ghorband
glype
granophyres
had an opporunity of
iarfine
internal cylindrical turning
lay store on
LFP
louis-le-grand
low-back chair
make a mountains of a molehills
masterships
mene maculata
molybdenumizing
mutiple-track range
n'-methylnicotinamide
nonladdering
nontariff distortion of composition
nyers
Odontioda
offwhite
ogling
overpressure
pads knuckle
pipe-fish
Pole-slide
polymetatarsia
portfolio management
Raghwah
retrovestibular
Roggeveen, C.
rounds of applauses
saltcake
semiconductor saturable absorber
ski bus
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sodium-dependent
sozoiodolate
sprung roof
taikoo
Territorial Waters Jurisdiction Act
to wreck
torroni
traumatic absence of endometrium
triplex controller
underpinning method
unfastidiously
unhighlight
variable carrier modulation
variation off tolerance
water content in capillary zone
water screen header
Waughian
weakly acidic aqueous solution
wellworthy
winier
wireless interface
wlne
xenon tetraoxide
yeast head