时间:2019-03-05 作者:英语课 分类:英语角-圆桌会议


英语课
Topic 1-Chinese Woman Verbally Abused on Virgin 1 Flight
 
A Chinese woman has claimed a Caucasian man called her racist 2 names on a Virgin Atlantic flight and the airline failed to give an acceptable response. The Facebook accounts of the airline company and its founder 3 Richard Branson have been inundated 4 with thousands of comments left by angry Chinese internet users. Also, it is one of the most discussed topics in Chinese media since the past weekend.
 
Topic 2-Artificial Intelligence VS Human
 
AlphaGo's win over one of the world's best Go players has got us wondering about which direction artificial intelligence is heading. Will robots beat humans in areas beyond playing an ancient chess game, or have they already done so? IT industry heavy weights, Jack 5 Ma, Lei Jun & Mark Zuckerberg, have offered their views on the prospects 6 of artificial intelligence at the China Development Forum 7 in Beijing.
 
Topic 3-10 Weird 8 Things That Urban People Do
 
An online post has pointed 9 out ten things that city dwellers 10 do but rural folks find silly. What are these things? And why is it so hard for rural folks to comprehend?

n.处女,未婚女子;adj.未经使用的;未经开发的
  • Have you ever been to a virgin forest?你去过原始森林吗?
  • There are vast expanses of virgin land in the remote regions.在边远地区有大片大片未开垦的土地。
n.种族主义者,种族主义分子
  • a series of racist attacks 一连串的种族袭击行为
  • His speech presented racist ideas under the guise of nationalism. 他的讲话以民族主义为幌子宣扬种族主义思想。
n.创始者,缔造者
  • He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
  • According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说,罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。
v.淹没( inundate的过去式和过去分词 );(洪水般地)涌来;充满;给予或交予(太多事物)使难以应付
  • We have been inundated with offers of help. 主动援助多得使我们应接不暇。
  • We have been inundated with every bit of information imaginable. 凡是想得到的各种各样的信息潮水般地向我们涌来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
n.希望,前途(恒为复数)
  • There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects. 公司中有一种对工作前景悲观的情绪。
  • They are less sanguine about the company's long-term prospects. 他们对公司的远景不那么乐观。
n.论坛,讨论会
  • They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
  • The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。
adj.古怪的,离奇的;怪诞的,神秘而可怕的
  • From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来,他好像有点怪。
  • His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。
adj.尖的,直截了当的
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
n.居民,居住者( dweller的名词复数 )
  • City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes. 城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They have transformed themselves into permanent city dwellers. 他们已成为永久的城市居民。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
acetamidoeugenol
acrylic resin crown
aeroplane insulator
all things come to those who wait
annular cartilage
antineutrality
arctic constellations
area variable
atrophodermas
automatic sieving machine
azelscope
backtick
ballet-dancer
batch variation
bettered
biodiversities
bosschaert
brearley
brown humic acid
brown-field
Burt
BVIN
calcium carbide structure
cam-river
card storage
cat's hair
charge of murder
chorea semilateralis
coast tower
composite class
Connector.
Cratecil
cross shake
custom power
database oriented tool generator
deniggerized
dish-washings
disk feeder
drift-back
duct-carcinoma of salivary gland
ego-center
electromagnetic cathoderay tube
encroach on/upon
Enneapogon
fancy woman
female prostate
fiber break
file id
forgetness
frost soil
galleting tile
gempyluss
grid drum
haftarah
haftmann
hasheem
hassayampa
head design
highly-specialiseds
interpreter used in macro processing
Kil'gana
lassas
lifestance
likenesses
Lonicera pampaninii
Michelia kachirachirai
moderization of productive equipment
moringa oleifera lam.
muffing
nonjunctional
nonspecificity
o/p
OXC
parametric measurement
phono jack
photoluminesce
preemzyme
proscription
rainwater junction pipe
recess of thread portion
remote input units
rotary draw bending
schematization
semantic routine notation
semi-choric
shear-type rubber mount
ship collision force
side spacing
skin disease of foot
soluble bougie
sunchoke
syntactic construct
tensile fatigue test
texture pile
TROGIDAE
tuberculoanaphylaxis
UI
unequal stereoblastula
unspecifiability
wet strength agent
yeast growing