时间:2019-02-24 作者:英语课 分类:英语趣味课堂


英语课
Todd: So Mark, what happens on boxing day?
 
Mark: On boxing day in England it's usually football day. Everybody goes and watches the football. Usually all the family go, so maybe granddad and grandma will go. In England on Boxing day, it's usually the highest attendances 2 of the year.
 
Todd: Oh, really.
 
Mark: Yeah, so we wake up on boxing day around about 11 o'clock, usually with a big hangover because we've been drinking of Christmas
day, and so to get rid of the hangover, what do we do, we actually drink more alcohol 3, so we usually go to the bar around 11, drink a lot of beer, and then go the football around about 2 and watch the game.
 
Todd: What's it like at the stadium 4?
 
Mark:Usually a really good atmosphere on boxing day, because, yeah and there are really big crowds and everybody is really happy cause it's Christmas so usually there's some guys dressed as Santa Clause 5 or people are wearing like Christmas decorations and it's a really good atmosphere.
 
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boxing day
 
Boxing Day in England is usually football day.
 
'Boxing Day' is a holiday celebrated 6 in England. I was traditionally 7 the first weekday after Christmas when companies gave their employees 8 presents and the postal 9 service delivered gifts that had been sent. Notice the following:
 
Does your company celebrate Boxing Day?
We all went to the game on Boxing Day.
highest attendance 1
 
That day usually has the highest attendance of the year.
 
When an event has a 'high attendance' it means 10 there are a lot of people there.  The 'highest attendance' means the most people who have come to an even during the year. Notice the following:
 
This year's graduation ceremony had the highest attendance in years.
The concert she gave in New York had the highest attendance.
hangover
 
We wake up usually with a big hangover from drinking the night before.
 
You get a hangover from drinking too much alcohol.  You usually have a bad headache and sometimes feel sick in your stomach.  Notice the following:
 
Many people have hangovers on January 1st.
I had such a bad hangover after my sister's wedding.
get rid of
 
To get rid of the hangover, we actually drink more alcohol.
 
When we make something go away, a thing, a person or a sickness, we are 'getting rid' of it. When we use it to talk about something it means the same as 'throw away' or that this thing becomes garbage.Notice the following:
 
We are working on getting rid of things we don't use anymore.
I am drinking lots of orange juice to get rid of this cold.
atmosphere
 
There's really a good atmosphere at the stadium, since it's Christmas.
 
In this case 'atmosphere' refers to the general emotional 11 feeling of a place. Notice the following:
 
The whole atmosphere in the company changed after she left.
Being with friends is a good atmosphere to be in if you are feeling sad.


n.出席,出席人数,护理,照料
  • The attendance of this class never dropped off.这个班的出席人数从未下降。
  • The young man danced attendance on his rich aunt.这个年轻人小心侍候他有钱的姑妈。
出席( attendance的名词复数 ); 参加; 出席次数; 出席人数
  • He missed three attendances this year. 他今年缺席三次。
  • He also told me that your attendances at his tutorial and seminar have been poor . 他还告诉我说你的辅导课和讨论课出勤率不高。
n.酒精,乙醇;含酒精的饮料
  • The law forbids shops to sell alcohol to minors.法律禁止商店向未成年者出售含酒精的饮料。
  • The alcohol is industrial.这些酒精是供工业用的。
n.露天大型运动场
  • The new football stadium can hold eighty thousand people.新的足球场可以容纳八万人。
  • The stadium is being used for a match.那个露天运动场正在进行一场比赛。
n.(正式文件或法律文件的)条款,从句,分句
  • The sentence consists of a main clause and a subordinate clause.这句中有一个主句和一个从句。
  • What clause do you require in the contract?你要求在合同中订上什么条款?
adj.有名的,声誉卓著的
  • He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
  • The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
adv.传说地;传统地
  • Traditionally,people clean the house before the Spring Festival.传统上,人们在春节前打扫房子。
  • Medicine is traditionally the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year.根据传统,医学奖是诺贝尔奖每年颁发的第一个奖项。
n.雇工,雇员( employee的名词复数 )
  • She is always polite and considerate towards her employees. 她对待雇员总是客客气气,关心体谅。
  • The company has a strict dress code—all male employees are expected to wear suits. 公司有严格的着装规定—所有男职员都要穿西服。
adj.邮政的,邮局的
  • A postal network now covers the whole country.邮路遍及全国。
  • Remember to use postal code.勿忘使用邮政编码。
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
adj.令人动情的;易动感情的;感情(上)的
  • Emotional people don't stop to calculate.感情容易冲动的人做事往往不加考虑。
  • This is an emotional scene in the play.这是剧中动人的一幕。
学英语单词
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acidity
aerosol food
afghanistani
alloy irons
antibiolumphin
ashpan blower valve
automatic assembly
avi cable
bakeout degassing clamp
birchleaf pear
body-curved disease
bodywood
bottom relief map
Bozeman's position
bridge cloth
bullock blocks
bushing electric
call accepted signal
chondriomere
Cirbanal
close set
color constants
comebackers
commodity wastage
correptions
courier bag
Cunaxa
departmentation by process or equipment
electronic fire-control equipment
element name
encoded fields
end of astronomical evening twilight
engine pod
ensampling
epss network
featurism
ferret distemper virus
fiber-map
full electronic switching
gallucci
general-purpose diagnostic program
geographical north
geospatial engineering
glowfly
haberse
hardware stage
hexagonal mirror
hot penetration construction
Hudsonian godwit
Immobilon
interstitial distance (mather 1936)
investigation on audience
Krasnaya Polyana
layer-wound solenoid
leather loader
limestone neutralization treatment
maximal tubular excretory capacity
melanedema
natural rate of unemployment
nerr
non-coplanar transfer
norvasc
nosedives
OMR (optical mark reader)
optically positive
over bridges
partner with
Pashtunwali
patung series
paving stone degeneration of retina
permanent magnet moving coil meter
pivoted bucket carrier
plantar spaces
plunged into
prince fumimaro konoyes
prodan
psychoanalytical theory
Pterocles
pyrophoric lead
raw material of woodcharcaol
roller chamfer
schwab
Scythians
sequentially-lobed radar
signal smoke
signe de peau d'orange
slugft
So it goes
sp vol
spin space
Stackelberg decision theory
swansea
tandem electrostatic generator
terry swatch
the leaflets of the trifoliolate leaves
topochemical control
variable acceptance sampling
viscosity model
Warenford
weighing-appliance
zeomorphis