时间:2019-02-15 作者:英语课 分类:英语角-圆桌会议


英语课

 Topic1 Spending your first paycheckThe first paycheck is one of the most important rites 1 of passage into adulthood 2. It is a symbol of your financial independence, a declaration of your readiness to become a productive member of society, and probably the beginning of your life-long hatred 3 of the payroll 4 tax.


How did you spend your first paycheck?
Topic2 Nostalgic PopsiclesWhat is old is new again.
This summer, food manufacturers are playing the nostalgia 5 card to attract urban consumers by branding products with a sweet childhood memory. The biggest winner here is the popsicle called Dong Bei Da Ban.
What is the Dongbei Daban? How popular?
Topic3 Brave DongbeirenIf you walk on the street and see a guy stealing from a young lady, would you do you anything to help?
A recent online program shows that 11 out of 15 men in the Northeast would do so, while in Shanghai, the result is very different.
What is this program? What did it show us?
Topic4 Care for some bullet curtain movies?
A new type of movie showing has tested the waters among Chinese moviegoers who can leave real time comments on the film screen for everybody else to see.
This kind of movie showing is called a bullet curtain screening and it has got the industry talking.
What is it?
Topic5 The inexplicable 6 "V"The V sign, a gesture commonly used by Chinese people while taking photos, is a hand gesture in which the index and middle fingers are raised and parted, while the other fingers are clenched 7. It has various meanings, depending on the cultural context and how it is presented.
So where did it start? Is it just a China thing?
Topic6 Back up boyfriendA backup literally 8 is a spare copy of a file, file system, or other resource for use in the event of failure or loss of the original. But now, there is a group of people calling themselves "backups. In this case they are the people kept in reserve to serve as a rebound 9 lover or spouse 10.
What exactly are these "backups?"

仪式,典礼( rite的名词复数 )
  • to administer the last rites to sb 给某人举行临终圣事
  • He is interested in mystic rites and ceremonies. 他对神秘的仪式感兴趣。
n.成年,成人期
  • Some infantile actions survive into adulthood.某些婴儿期的行为一直保持到成年期。
  • Few people nowadays are able to maintain friendships into adulthood.如今很少有人能将友谊维持到成年。
n.憎恶,憎恨,仇恨
  • He looked at me with hatred in his eyes.他以憎恨的眼光望着我。
  • The old man was seized with burning hatred for the fascists.老人对法西斯主义者充满了仇恨。
n.工资表,在职人员名单,工薪总额
  • His yearly payroll is $1.2 million.他的年薪是120万美元。
  • I can't wait to get my payroll check.我真等不及拿到我的工资单了。
n.怀乡病,留恋过去,怀旧
  • He might be influenced by nostalgia for his happy youth.也许是对年轻时幸福时光的怀恋影响了他。
  • I was filled with nostalgia by hearing my favourite old song.我听到这首喜爱的旧歌,心中充满了怀旧之情。
adj.无法解释的,难理解的
  • It is now inexplicable how that development was misinterpreted.当时对这一事态发展的错误理解究竟是怎么产生的,现在已经无法说清楚了。
  • There are many things which are inexplicable by science.有很多事科学还无法解释。
v.紧握,抓紧,咬紧( clench的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He clenched his fists in anger. 他愤怒地攥紧了拳头。
  • She clenched her hands in her lap to hide their trembling. 她攥紧双手放在腿上,以掩饰其颤抖。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adv.照字面意义,逐字地;确实
  • He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
  • Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候,她不走到真正要昏厥了,决不肯坐下来。
v.弹回;n.弹回,跳回
  • The vibrations accompanying the rebound are the earth quake.伴随这种回弹的振动就是地震。
  • Our evil example will rebound upon ourselves.我们的坏榜样会回到我们自己头上的。
n.配偶(指夫或妻)
  • Her spouse will come to see her on Sunday.她的丈夫星期天要来看她。
  • What is the best way to keep your spouse happy in the marriage?在婚姻中保持配偶幸福的最好方法是什么?
学英语单词
4-H'er
abdominal delivery
adjustable speed motor
afterword
anax guttatus
aneerood
babycar
belt freezing
beston
Bordeaux turpenting
burrowing organism
Byronian
campaign management firm
capricciosoes
carrying amount
ceflorin
Chakhmāq Bolāgh-e Pā'īn
class acts
Clemente
CLODRONIC
combined statement of income and earned surplus
compensation of guardian
concentric ellipses
denturist
diamond shape
DotGain
duplicate licence
dye-fixing agent
Elliott wave
exoplasmosis
fetal hemoglobin
field application relay
field-synchronizing impulse
flour bag cloth
forehand rent
Fosnavåg
frittoes
futura
genus gliricidias
genus Triglochin
hand brake lever arm
hernia taxis
hitchell
hunt for
in charge of
intersite transmission
jewelweed
juke box optical disk system
Kamitsushima
laqueary
lead-circuit
Lichtenhaag
look-aside registers
Lord Howe Rise
mama's boys
mellow consisting
milliangstrom
muonic neutrino
Myriophyllum alterniflorum
nadir plumment
nyctimenes
oil atomizer nozzle
osul
oxy welding
peritoneal folds
pesages
photokinesis
plundering
pneumatic thermostates
polar dial
primitive vertebrae
quick response excitation
rack stake
radiumluminescence
raining cats and dogs
real mass
Regional Association for South America
repleaders
root van
roughness integrator
scrabbled
selenographic chart
Shipunovskiy Rayon
Sims' position
sodium bicarbonate
soupless
submonomer
thermo-chemical dehydration
thermoelectric actinograph
thick-skinneds
Tibetia tongolensis
timber loader
transfer rabbit
Tymtey
unconditional branch operator
unkeenly
venetias
volemite
Všeruby
wightly
zemni
zero-field emission