时间:2019-02-24 作者:英语课 分类:英语趣味课堂


英语课
Jessica: Kate, where are you from?
 
Kate: I'm from London in England.
 
Jessica: OK, and your heritage 1 is..?
 
Kate: My heritage is Irish. My grandparents were Irish, both sets of grandparents.
 
Jessica: Oh, wow. What part of Ireland were they from?
 
Kate: They're from Galway City.
 
Jessica: Where is that?
 
Kate: That's on the west coast of Ireland. It's really beautiful there. Absolutely gorgeous 2.
 
Jessica: Great, and do they move to England?
 
Kate: Yeah, my grandfather actually came over to become a priest 3, but obviously 4 he didn't. So yeah, then, he met my grandmother who also come over from England and then they got married. So, yeah, my name is an Irish name. Kate's an Irish name and Kenny as well, my surname 5. It's a very Irish name.
 
Jessica: Wow, so now what was it like having Irish grandparents in England?
 
Kate: I think initially 6 for them it was difficult when they first came over because there weren't many jobs for the Irish and there as quite a lot of prejudice against the Irish, but it's wonderful having Irish heritage because there's such funny warm kind people. Really interesting. They can tell a good story so it was great to have that.
 
Jessica: Yeah, so have you been to Ireland?
 
Kate: Oh, yeah. Many times. Yeah.
Jessica: Did you go and see where they grew up and...yeah
 
Jessica: Cool.
 
Kate: It's a beautiful place. I've been there lots of times. I want to go back. Definitely 7. Really lovely country and the people are so friendly. It's so beautiful there.
 
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Learn Vocabulary from the lesson
heritage
 
My heritage is Irish.
 
Your 'heritage' is something that has been handed down from your ancestors, like culture or tradition.  Notice the following:
 
His heritage is very important to him.
There is a heritage festival here in November.
set of grandparents
 
Both sets of my grandparents were Irish.
 
A 'set of grandparents' is both a grandmother and grandfather.  Many people have two set, your mother's parents and your father's parents. Notice the following:
 
Both sets of grandparents came to my graduation.
One set of grandparents still lives in South Africa.
absolutely gorgeous
 
Galway City in Ireland is absolutely gorgeous.
 
If something is 'absolutely gorgeous' it is very, very, very beautiful.  Notice the following:
 
The sunset tonight was absolutely gorgeous.
Your wedding dress is absolutely gorgeous.
came over
 
My grandfather came over to become a priest.
 
We use 'come over' in this context 8 to show that someone is traveling to a new country, to stay for a long time or forever. Notice the following:
 
Many Irish came over in the beginning of the 1900s.
He came over here to find a better life.
prejudice
 
There was quite a lot of prejudice against the Irish.
 
A 'prejudice' is a certain opinion or idea, usually about a group of people, that you believe to be true for all members of that group. Prejudices are usually bad. Notice the following:
 
Prejudice exists as much today as it did in the past.
Many people form prejudices because of media.


n.传统,遗产,继承物
  • The ancient buildings are part of the national heritage.这些古建筑是民族遗产的一部分。
  • We Chinese have a great cultural heritage.我们中国人有伟大的文化遗产。
adj.华丽的,灿烂的,美丽的,宜人的,棒的
  • The gorgeous costume added to the brilliance of the dance.华丽的服装使舞蹈更加光彩夺目。
  • What a gorgeous day it is today!今天天气多好啊!
n.神父,牧师,司铎,司祭,领导者,神甫;vt.使成为神职人员
  • He confessed to a priest that he had sinned.他向神父忏悔他犯了罪。
  • The priest visited all the old people in the parish.牧师探望了教区里的所有老人。
adv.显然;明白地
  • Obviously they were putting him to a severe test.显然他们是在给他以严峻的考验。
  • Obviously he was lying.显然他是在撒谎。
n.姓;vt.冠姓
  • Her first name is Sheila and her surname is Kane.她姓凯恩,名叫希拉。
  • Wang is a very common Chinese surname.王是一个很常见的中国姓。
adv.最初,开始
  • The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
  • Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。
adv.一定地,肯定地;明确地,确切地
  • The team will definitely lose if he doesn't play.如果他不参加比赛,这个队肯定会输。
  • I shall definitely be home before six o'clock.6点以前,我一定回家。
n.背景,环境,上下文,语境
  • You can always tell the meaning of a word from its context.你常可以从上下文中猜出词义来。
  • This sentence does not seem to connect with the context.这个句子似乎与上下文脱节。
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active immunity
ajaccios
Almyropotamos
Ameca
amedo
angon
average daily calling rate
ball and inner ring assembly
barge to barge transfer
bills drawn under letter of credit
binary to decimal conversion
binnein mor
blowing spray
bomb calorimeters
branches at home and abroad
brick laid with mortar
capricorn beetle
carib woods
chimbley
complete set of eigenstates
contact flange
core and winding assembly
darrayne
disprovide
diverting dam
draw ... up
drift epoch
droseras
electron paramagnetic resonance
europium acetate
exchange volume
field investment
flairing
gemmifications
general call signal
Gentiloni
genus pedilanthuss
global liquidity
gone over
Hai Phong
heat-producing reaction
hflo
independent fault
inlaces
internal fuel
ionic speaker
irreversible circulation
ks-standard loading
latex examination gloves
LAVINIA
lipophilic compound
literatize
Loboc
macrocyclic compounds
metal-semiconductor-metal diode
monosuits
nonpsychological
notched furnace
oil sump tank
pallidofugal
Parafasciolopsis
pass-over offset
pentaradiate
pickup points
Pillsbury, Lake
plaque-infested port
plasma lipids
playdohs
public lawyer
Puccinia epimedii
put one's best foot first
radicicol
ratten-
readmitance
reclaiming by centrifuge
red-shank
relational instruction
resource productivity
sampling length
scare someone out of his wits
seasonal group profile code
settleability test
small wiring
soft corruption
spoliation
steam and gas
stereochemical formula
sun-bathing
suppression hangover time
tax reimbursement for export
thermofocal
tracepoint
tunnel in rock
twofold degeneracy
uncorrugated
unfavorable variance
union colourimeter
wetting of cloth
whidder
Wycakon-G
yudha