时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

   今年是猴年,也是美国的Presidential election year, 总统大选年。全美、甚至全球人民的大事,岂能错过?


  关键词:
  美帝两大党:
  美帝两大党
  The Democratic Party: 民主党
  The Republican Party: 共和党
  Donkey: 驴
  Elephant: 大象
  The GOP (The Grand Old Party): 共和党的别称红的州、蓝的州、还有一些摇摆州:
  红的州、蓝的州、还有一些摇摆州:
  Red states: 红色州,支持共和党
  Blue states: 蓝色州,支持民主党
  Swing states: 摇摆州
  谁参选:
  谁参选:
  Who's running: 谁参选
  Run for President of the United States: 竞选美国总统Candidates: 参选人、候选人
  Presidential race: 总统竞选
  Presidential election: 总统大选
  如何从乡里一路杀到白宫:
  Caucus 1: 党代会
  Primary: 党内初选
  National convention: 全国党内代表大会
  General election: 总统大选
  共和党候选人:都很crazy!
  Donald Trump 2: reality TV star(真人秀明星)、real estate tycoon(地产大亨);制造话题功力一流;Ted Cruz: 代表极保守的Tea Party movement (茶党); debate champion(辩论高手); 基层组织能力极强 (powerful grass roots organization)民主党:社会主义接班人 vs 美国第一位女总统?
  Socialist 3: 社会主义者
  Battle-tested: 经过严格考验的
  Sanders是这次选举最大的黑马, 而且特别受年轻人欢迎。
  他的竞选主张是"We live in a country where the top 1% have everything and the 99% have nothing." 说出了劳苦大众的心声。
  还有一块小鲜肉:
  Rubio is a Republican candidate: Rubio是古巴裔;共和党候选人Hispanics are the fastest growing demographic in America: 拉美裔人群(以墨西哥裔为主)是美国增长最快的移民群体随着Hispanic(拉美裔) 人群的快速增长,选出一个Hispanic总统指日可待

n.秘密会议;干部会议;v.(参加)干部开会议
  • This multi-staged caucus takes several months.这个多级会议常常历时好几个月。
  • It kept the Democratic caucus from fragmenting.它也使得民主党的核心小组避免了土崩瓦解的危险。
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
n.社会主义者;adj.社会主义的
  • China is a socialist country,and a developing country as well.中国是一个社会主义国家,也是一个发展中国家。
  • His father was an ardent socialist.他父亲是一个热情的社会主义者。
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ainis
Alfie Bass
allowable operating current range
anal blood gill
anticyclogenesis
artesian discharge
ask for leave
astern maneuvering valve
autodermic
be swayed by prejudice
beeter
bergamot pear
bottari
bowlingite
bulls eye
cock carrying platform
color bar Y buffer
come to a dead end
Commission on Narcotic Drugs
consumer expenditure income pattern
container fork lift
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devorations
dialectical statement
divisibilities
dressel
dumb down
ec-
El Uarot
elastic restraint
end land width
equips
erythroferrone
exemplificator
extensible markup language parser
family historian
femoral scute
field ion microscopy(FIM)
foration
gas sampling
gdcf
Georges Bizet
gotten some air
Horizontal Stripe
incomplexly
isoenzyme isozyme
lichees
life linesman
Ligularia przewalskii
Lobomonas
low-speed agitator
mariage blanc
meter-candle
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midepigastric plane
most obviously
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nonreference
object image coincidence method
operation of controller
oxophenamidum
pajaros
pedal operated directional valve
periphrasic
pomiferas
potassium bitartrates
presco
present historic
program debugging
prostomial palp
recipe for disaster
reinforcement layup
rock rip-rap
Saint-Yrieix
show deference to
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the Channel
tiletamine
to the memory of sb
torpedo stop
tortaxis mirus
Traffic Safety Committee
tungsten-carbide composition
unamortized share-issuing expenses
undamped navigation mode
universal joint transmission flange
us sars
voltage-controlled shift register
wassermann tests
watering hole attack
wave shoaling coefficient
waveguide twists
X-LA
X-ray fluoresce readout analyser
xylosidase
zooms in