时间:2019-02-15 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

  第一个是:golden years。你听了这个说法也许会想不通怎么把老年称为黄金时代呢?想出这条高见的人言下之意是退休后人们就展开了人生最轻松如意的岁月,因为子女都已长大成人,不再需要为他们操劳,从此可以随心所欲地享受自己的人生了。


  尽管创造golden years这个说法的人用心良苦,这个短语却并没赢得人们的广泛赞赏和共鸣;有时反而被人用来开玩笑地指在老年慢性病缠绕下、以微薄的退休金勉强度日的风烛残年。
  第二种说法是:senior citizen。Senior这个词听来很顺耳,因为它可以用来说资历深、职位高、地位显要的人。在美国被称作senior citizen的老人能得到种种优待,去商店购物、上电影院看电影都可以打折,坐公共交通车也可以享受半价。
  这儿的senior citizen是美国称老人的委婉说法,显然它也并不能赢得每个人的欢心。

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acid conductor
aenea
anti-removal device
apooler
Blastcone
Borinquen, Pta.
breast (or mamma)
bruit de frottement
bursae musculi bicipitis femoris
carpospores
central offices
chaulmugra
chemline
choice of law rules
clearance-gauge
compose music
conjugates system
corcovadite
deviation of maximum tooth thickness
dilweg
disc(k)ectomy
distiller's soluble(s)
downhole ground
drop one's guard
dual-flow tray
dysthymia
Eriocaulon pullum
evolution operator
genus mercenarias
GISci
Gobiobotinae
grand ballroom
graphical sequencing
hall gauss meter
harvestless
heat panting
hide sorter
history of poetry
hysteresis-loss
ichiriki
imposthumations
incuring obligation
katepisternum
Liapunov indirect method
list form
little mermaid
low-fire
microprocessor system analyzer
microwave radio relay
mirror point
motoralternator
mptas
mucinous eccrine carcinoma
multiposition lathe
natural polymer
neighbours from hell
new kid on the block
night effect
pampinocele
perchloric acid
photoisomerisations
phytotomous
polyporus frondosus fr.
pre-indesignate
pylaisiadelpha yokohamae
pyp-grass
Pūrna
quasi-multiplication
re-unions
recording balloon
rejoicing
relay socket
resignant
Retamito
reticleaxis
rock n roll
rosy-red minnow
Sangamon
semi triangular form
Serentil
sheernesses
stage bearer
straight handle
sub-nuclear
subminiatures
Supur
symmetric binary tree
synchrom esh transmission
terrasses
test series
Tetra-Acetate
thermal flooding
thumb paper
tichodromas
toning in
unprofessionalisms
unpurgeable
usucapio
vehiculates
verminaille
walleye surfperch, walleyed surf fish
weismannism