时间:2019-02-24 作者:英语课 分类:英语趣味课堂


英语课
Paul: Hi, this is Paul from England speaking with Katia from Mexico. First question is do you give money to charity?
Katia: Well, Paul, it's a difficult question because you really want to help people, but I always question myself where if the money really gets to where it's supposed to go, so personally I rarely do give money to charities. I'd rather give my time, so I know if it's actually something happening. What about you?
 
Paul: Yeah, I guess that makes sense. If it's a registered 1 charity then I don't see there's a problem really with giving a donation 2.
 
Katia: Yeah, I guess so, but really I wonder. There are so many charities in the world, and you wonder really how much money do the people actually get, so it's difficult to really know.
 
Paul: How about if you're walking down the street and you see a homeless person asking for money?
 
Katia: Homeless people! That's also difficult because you can see they need money or they need food. Sometimes I feel if you give money, you are supporting their way of life so I would rather give some food so they can eat, but maybe if it's a disabled person, I am more willing to give, rather than just the homeless.
 
Paul: Yeah, I'd agree with you. It's difficult to know what they're gonna use the money for, so usually I never give money to men but if it's like an elderly woman, I'm happy to give a small donation.
 
Katia: Why not men and only women?
 
Paul: Well, going back to what you said about supporting their way of life, I mean, not in every case, but I think that often it can just be man's choice to be homeless on the street and he does have a chance to get a job I think.
 
Katia: So you think the woman really doesn't have a choice, and the man...
 
Paul: I think it's more difficult for a woman.
 
Katia: Possibly. Possibly. That's a difficult question.
 
Paul: For sure. Do you give money if you see children on the street?
 
Katia: Well, it depends, because that's also giving money to children so they can continue asking for money, so I avoid it. I also avoid it. What about you?
 
Paul: I'm a little bit reluctant 3 to give money. I heard in a lot of poor countries that it can actually even be a business, like a parents will send their children onto the street.
 
Katia: Unfortunately, that's true.
 
Paul: OK, so maybe you like what you said before: it's better to donate your time than to donate money.
 
Katia: Possibly. And hopefully things will change.

adj.登记的,注册的
  • Ships were registered abroad to circumvent employment and safety regulation. 船只在外国注册以逃避有关雇佣和安全的规定。
  • In former times, only property owners could be registered as voters. 从前,只有有财产的人才能登记作选民。
n.捐赠,捐献,捐助;捐赠物
  • She made a personal donation to the fund.她以个人名义向基金会捐款。
  • Then next big donation of musical instruments came from Germany.第二笔音乐乐器的大型捐助来自德国。
adj.不愿意的;迟迟不合作的;不同意的
  • The workers are reluctant to be ordered around by the employers.工人们不愿被雇主们差来遣去地随便使唤。
  • I am reluctant about asking him to do this.我极不愿意让他去干此事。
学英语单词
4-Pyridoxate
adaptive predicative coding
aeromagnetic exploration
agrilus auropictus
Algerian Saharan Arabic
Alice-Josephine Pons
Anynet
Asian-Pacific Postal Union
autogreets
ballast scarifier
Barnby Dun
beat someone's head off
blade shielding
buccopharyngeal epithelium
bureau of the census
calculated gas velocity
call-sign
carinal canal
choke block
concealed-carry
conformal cylindrical projection
control integrated circuit
convexedness
cudi deresi
current market-value
cusp beach
cyphonantes
Dirico
disembargo
Divine Liturgy
dollkind
epidermal cancer
equation of radiative transfer
equatorial quantum number
expanding band clutch
facio-cervical lifting
fast-forwardeds
Featherville
film layer
first-naming
fixed-gate generator
fourbis
Frequency shift telegraphy.
Gcaleka
gigaspora pellucida
granitell
gutturalize
high-speed data
holiday homes
infilling well
initial ladders
Jasdorf
khaph
leasehold obligation
leather-wrapped
Ligamentum nuchae
look straight ahead
lymphocytotropic
malamanteaus
melinite
molecular make-up
neriene fusca
newly-publisheds
non-pollutive technology
of wide distribution
olax wightiana wall. ex wight et am.
opposite-field
optical length
ossa wormi
otitis mucosis
pendentive bracketing
polys
posttraumatic epilepsy
predicted values
propellant management device
pullinsi
rayetheon
re-call
roston
running torque-frequency characteristic
salt eutectic
slow-onsets
snecked rubble wall
solution casting
Spruceton
stomachings
Strikes Risks
stubblefield
survey of gender equality in the workplace
taisha
thick-knit
Trojanów
troubetzkoy
Valais, Alps
Verkhnyaya Taymyra
vitamin-e
water violets
wilted point
world market price
xerotropism
xiaojin mini-pills