时间:2019-02-22 作者:英语课 分类:英语角-圆桌会议


英语课

 Topic1 Preventative HealthcareAlong with the improvement of living quality, people gradually attach more and more importance to health keeping.


According to the Chinese media, yesterday was the 世界保健日, or world health care day.
So first of all, how do you maintain your health? Any tips to share?
Topic2 Skeptic 1 Offers Huge Reward to Debunk 2 Traditional Chinese MedicineTraditional Chinese medicine is said to have the practical ability of determining whether a woman is pregnant just by feeling the prospective 3 mother's pulse.
This has become a point of contention 4 for a popular Chinese doctor of Western medicine who has issued a 50,000 yuan reward to anyone who can prove he is wrong in saying "Chinese medicine is a fake science".
What is the challenge about?
Topic3 China bans misleading labels on non-GMO productsChina has banned misleading words like "healthier" and "safer" in advertisements for non-genetically modified or GM products.
According to an announcement on the official Sina Weibo account of China Central Television's Advertising 5 Center, "GMO (genetically modified organism)-free" labeling is also forbidden for use by certain companies if GM versions of their products don't exist in China or anywhere else.
The announcement warned that the State Administration for Industry and Commerce will strengthen supervision 6 of GM labeling.
Why are there GMO-free labels?
Topic4 EPA Head: "I Cannot Control the Smog!"For a long time, whenever smog was rising in cities, people to blame environment protection bureaus for not doing their job. However, the heads of environmental departments in many places complained that "they cannot control the smog!"Is it true that the head of environmental protection bureaus cannot control the smog?
Topic5 Jaywalkers captured by camera and shamed on big screenPedestrians who cross the road when the light is at red now risk the embarrassment 8 of having their pictures displayed publicly on a screen.
Northern Chinese city of Shijiazhuang has installed video cameras at some of its crossroads to monitor pedestrians 7 and non-motorized vehicles that run red lights.
Snapshots of jaywalkers will be taken by these cameras and then shown on television screens put up beside the traffic lights.
Local traffic police say the number of jaywalkers has been on a decline a week after the devices were installed.
Is there a need for the practice?

n.怀疑者,怀疑论者,无神论者
  • She is a skeptic about the dangers of global warming.她是全球变暖危险的怀疑论者。
  • How am I going to convince this skeptic that she should attention to my research?我将如何使怀疑论者确信她应该关注我的研究呢?
v.揭穿真相,暴露
  • let's debunk some of the most common falsehoods.让我们来揭穿一些最常见的谬误吧。
  • Sequences of maps can also debunk misconceptions.一系列的地图,也有助于厘清错误概念。
adj.预期的,未来的,前瞻性的
  • The story should act as a warning to other prospective buyers.这篇报道应该对其他潜在的购买者起到警示作用。
  • They have all these great activities for prospective freshmen.这会举办各种各样的活动来招待未来的新人。
n.争论,争辩,论战;论点,主张
  • The pay increase is the key point of contention. 加薪是争论的焦点。
  • The real bone of contention,as you know,is money.你知道,争论的真正焦点是钱的问题。
n.广告业;广告活动 a.广告的;广告业务的
  • Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
  • The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。
n.监督,管理
  • The work was done under my supervision.这项工作是在我的监督之下完成的。
  • The old man's will was executed under the personal supervision of the lawyer.老人的遗嘱是在律师的亲自监督下执行的。
n.步行者( pedestrian的名词复数 )
  • Several pedestrians had come to grief on the icy pavement. 几个行人在结冰的人行道上滑倒了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Pedestrians keep to the sidewalk [footpath]! 行人走便道。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
n.尴尬;使人为难的人(事物);障碍;窘迫
  • She could have died away with embarrassment.她窘迫得要死。
  • Coughing at a concert can be a real embarrassment.在音乐会上咳嗽真会使人难堪。
学英语单词
a cappella singings
accident type
active service
akihiko
allyl diglycocarbonate
almond moths
anisotropic hypofine coupling constant
Baravukha
behavioral criteria
box body dump car
cadastral file
car licence
charge correlator
chestnutty
cobalt carbonate
collateralizes
compressed air source unit
construction process
coordinated inspection visit
cutting electrode holder
decorate ... with
decryption algorithm
di-active amyl succinate
disennobling
E-Cadherins
edifier
equilibrium phase
extended binary-coded decimal interchange code
Federation of British Industries
finback whale
finger rest
flagrable
fly at sb's throat
form as content
fruit-picking
gayl
gold ingot
goods consigned
guide disc
heat ray
in contempt of danger
in their shoes
kadin
kand
Krupp, Alfred
large-panel construction
large-scale manufacturing
last number
loan car
lock pawl
loss due to concrete shrinkage
magnetic basement
marcopulos
matzo balls
metaphase arrest
micro-Omega
Mirandaing
moral lesson
mormyrocerebellum
multivariate negative hypergeometric distribution
muraqabah
nercoes
nitches
nut problem
open the door to sth
open to
overwide
oxide core
pen-writing oscillograph
personal defense weapon
plaintive
plate fin
podocarpus macrophyllus var maki(sieb.)endl.
potted orchid
quaser
R center
reconcele
requirers
rfc 822
Ruffle a few feathers
Schaan
shorthairs
South Williamson
spiraled duct
split rails
stable push
stalactitic
stroke regulating screw
third-last
Tirstrup
touch football
toxin-antitoxin reaction
trammelling
transformed curve
transient characteristic
transverse lines
tubeworms
unattractiveness
virgin bull
visualized model
wine-jar
Wisconsin protocol