时间:2019-01-28 作者:英语课 分类:地道美语播客


英语课

I visit my hometown about once a year. This year, I was in town for about five days and there was a family get-together 1. It wasn't a family reunion since it was just my immediate 2 family, but still, there were a total of about 45 people who showed up .


Our family parties are always held at the home of one of my brothers or sisters. It is always a potluck. We never have formal dinner parties and so we never need catering 3. At the potluck this past weekend, some people brought casseroles , some brought chips and dip, and some brought cookies and cakes for dessert. I usually don't have to bring anything since I'm the guest of honor.


There is always a lot of talking and laughing at our family parties. Someone always brings up old childhood memories or a funny anecdote 4 from the old days. A family get-together as big as ours can be overwhelming for some people. When they ask me what it's like to be part of such a big family I always tell them one thing: It's noisy!


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse

 



n.(使)聚集;(使)集合
  • Well,Miss Huang,we are planning to have a casual get-together.嗯,黄小姐,我们打算大家小聚一番。
  • Will you help me prepare for the get- together of the old classmates?你能否帮我为这次老同学聚会做好准备工作?
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
n. 给养
  • Most of our work now involves catering for weddings. 我们现在的工作多半是承办婚宴。
  • Who did the catering for your son's wedding? 你儿子的婚宴是由谁承办的?
n.轶事,趣闻,短故事
  • He departed from the text to tell an anecdote.他偏离课文讲起了一则轶事。
  • It had never been more than a family anecdote.那不过是个家庭趣谈罢了。
学英语单词
1-nonene
airframe bearing
all bank data telecommunication system
Allegheny chinkapin
amido fast orange
Aram Eugene
astro-geodetic undulation
avener
awem
baloda bazar
Banatski Karlovac
be kept alive
beggar-thy-neighbor policy
behavior description interview (bdi)
bill birds
bolshaya atnya
cable package
callass
camera control room
Catholicised
climbing-speed
coffeecake
coupon register
Dapchi
diagnostic teaching
direct marketing by integration
dirtsider
discrimination filter
ehlens
elrage
exhibitability
fixed spherical radio telescope
foretokening
forth estate
forward signaling path
foure
glass fiber reinforced polyester sheet
gueldre
gullane
heating funnel
hillside open pit
histiocytomata
hypoplastic leukemic syndrome
Ille-et-Vilaine, Dép.de l'
infrared decoy system
intializtion applets
iron(iii) hydrogen pyrophosphate
jackrabbits
kingpost antenna
knappy
lades
landlord's lien
leptomycin
letterss
Mapiri, R.
marsh fever
microcera fujikuroi
multiband solar cell
Nono, Luigi
Nurpur
nyquist stability criterion
oldenlandiopsis callitrichoides
palatinus
pallasades
passing loop
physical system
piezoelectric charging
plain steels
platform for epsetting
poly (diphenyl ether sulfone)
Porphyrula
psychological well - being
Quaddafi
radial-flow blower
relativistic stabilized electron beam
ronfeldt
sandwicensine
Sarroca-de-Lleida
scowing
singultuss
small memory
sodium iodoacetate
Sotome
Stanislavskian
Star-shake
start data traffic
tail wheel boot
tcha
tedy
the Lost and Found
themistella fusca
Tibbett, Lawrence
tom-fool
tragedy of the commons
true to life
vagary
Walden
wastewaters
whittall
working pit edge
woythal
zoantharia