时间:2019-02-16 作者:英语课 分类:英语趣味课堂


英语课

 Nick: So, I don’t know much about Guam. I’d barely 1 heard of Guam until last year so please, tell me something about it. What’s life like?


Cheryl: Well, most people have never heard about Guam. Most people who do hear about it are mostly Americans and even then most of these Americans that do hear about it, they have family in the military or they know a friend in the military and that’s because Guam is a big US base, a military base.
 
Guam is a little island in the middle of the Pacific. It’s actually five hours from where you’re from, Nick, five hours from Australia. And it’s about four hours from Hong Kong and three and a half from Japan. So you can kind of gauge 2 based on those numbers just how much in the middle of the Pacific Ocean Guam is. It’s about eighteen miles wide and thirty-two miles long so it’s pretty, pretty small.
 
Nick: So it’s a part of America?
 
Cheryl: Yeah, it’s a part of America. The US military base there is actually the biggest in Asia besides the one in Okinawa which is the islands south of Japan.
 
But it is supposedly the closest US soil...not supposedly, it is the closest US soil to Asia.
 
Nick: Oh really? And it look like a tropical paradise 3.
 
Cheryl: Yeah, it is very much like Hawaii which is an island of the coast of the mainland US. It’s got lots and lots of palm trees, blue waters, and white sand. Lots and lots and lots of water sports are available...scuba 4 diving spots, it’s actually a paradise, I think.
 
Nick: I definitely want to go.
 
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Learn Vocabulary from the Lesson
military
 
They have family in the military.
 
Military is another word for the army, or the armed forces. The word military includes other branches of the armed forces such as the navy, air force, and the marines. See the examples below:
 
Recruiters from the military were at our school today to try to get students to join.
I think I would like being in the military if I got to travel a lot.
military base
 
Guam is a big US base, a military base.
 
A military base is a place with military equipment and housing where the armed forces do training and operations. Read the following examples:
 
The is a military base in Okinawa, Japan.
There are schools for children of people in the military on many army bases.
gauge
 
So you can kind of gauge just how much in the middle of the Pacific Ocean Guam is.
 
Gauge, sometimes also spelled “gage”, means to estimate the size or amount of something. A gauge is also a tool such as a speedometer inside a car to see how fast the car is going. See the additional examples below:
 
I wasn’t able to gauge how tall he was from the pictures.
The gauge was broken so I didn't know the temperature was so high.
soil
 
Guam is the closest US soil to Asia.
 
Soil, when used in the example above, means land or territory. Literally 5, soil means dirt. Look at the 2 examples below:
 
I was so happy to be back on French soil after living in a different country for so long.
Worms are actually very good for the soil because they make it softer.
tropical paradise
 
It looks like a tropical paradise.
 
Paradise is a place that is perfect. A tropical paradise is a beautiful place that is sunny, close to the ocean, warm, full of flowers, birds, and fruit. See the examples below:
 
Adam and Eve lived in the paradise of the Garden of Eden.
I’m sure everyone has dreamed of living in a tropical paradise before.


adv.仅仅,几乎没有,几乎不
  • The male bird is barely distinguishable from the female.雄鸟和雌鸟几乎无法辨别。
  • He took barely enough money to keep the children in bread.他赚很少的钱仅够孩子们勉强糊口。
v.精确计量;估计;n.标准度量;计量器
  • Can you gauge what her reaction is likely to be?你能揣测她的反应可能是什么吗?
  • It's difficult to gauge one's character.要判断一个人的品格是很困难的。
n.伊甸乐园,天堂
  • My house had a small backyard,the paradise of children.我那幢房子有一个小后院,那是孩子们玩耍的乐园。
  • On a hot day a dip in the sea is sheer paradise.热天洗个海水澡是十分令人惬意的事。
n.水中呼吸器
  • I first got hooked on scuba diving when I was twelve.12岁时我开始迷上了带水中呼吸器潜水。
  • While on honeymoon in Bali,she learned to scuba dive.她在巴厘岛度蜜月时学会了带水肺潜水。
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。
学英语单词
17-OHD
a. comitans n. ischiadici
absorb heat
accessory rights
actvation sludge-tank
additional factor for intermittent heating
aedoeodynia
aloids
ambiotic remedy
apobasinoside
base-forming food
biological zero point
birefringent prism
Borjak
breil (brigels)
bridge ratio resistance
Broker's Call
button on
Cactaceae
chain cager
channel noise
concierge
copperworm
crossed out
crowding barrow
cumbent
cyathophorum
Diamanus mandarinus
domed mire
douane
durazzoes
economic imbalance
El Ojo de Agua
Eleocharis ovata
function declaration statement
funnies
general signal code
GM_conjunctions-causes-reasons-results-and-purpose
grunsels
gwiazda
handed back
heat capacity
hegi
heterotypic cortex
high-castest
hold back one's tears
Ia antigen
immature
in reply to
Indigosol Pink IR
inflorescence types
interstitial therapy
Jaspur
Keith's line switch
Kikola
lansign
like the wind
low disparity code
Madeleines, I.des
maradik
mass hysterias
maximum rate of filtering
mechanotransduction
modular advanced-graphics generation system (maggs)
Mornand
noncorrosiveness
NRPC
oakenwald
once-through uranium-fuel cycle
Paterna de Rivera
pathology of hypertension
periodate ion
phospho-src
phyllum
PLMN
polar direct current system
polysialylated
priority guidelines of industrial policy
psychological selection in sports
Puglia, Tavoliere della
pyroelectric
reciprocal buying
reserve source of electrical power
Royal National Eisteddfod
RTOW
Rubrobacteraceae
seasure
sheet lead
shielded mild detonating cord
simple eye
stratum laxum of dermis
subjective and groundless conclusion
Thinbaung
total mechanical travel
tree list file
trunci lumbales sinister
unpolite
unsubmission
Utsu-tōge
wide-band spectrum
wood turtle
Yushania flexa