时间:2019-03-06 作者:英语课 分类:英语趣味课堂


英语课

 famine


 
That was so important for Europe, during the famine in Europe.
A 'famine' is when there is little or no food for a population. A famine can happen when there is a problem growing or producing food or when a group of people can't receive available food for some reason.
Notice the following:
 
This famine has caused quite a crisis 1
The famine caused many people to lose their lives. 
mature
 
You have to mature the cheese.
When you 'mature' something like wine or cheese you let it sit for a period of time so that it tastes better. We can use this also to talk about fruit that becomes ready to eat. A person is mature when they act in a way that is typical of someone older.
Notice the following:
 
She is very sensible and mature for her age.
These strawberries are not mature enough to pick yet. 
No kidding
 
No kidding! Wow!
'No kidding' is a phrase used to show that you are surprised or you can't believe what you have just found out. 
Notice the following:
 
No kidding! I have won the lottery 2!
You just bought a new car? No kidding!
embarrass
 
No, no! That's embarrassing.
We feel 'embarrassed' when we do something foolish or make a mistake. Sometimes when you are embarrassed your face becomes red and hot. Something that makes us feel embarrassed is 'embarrassing.' 
Notice the following:
 
I can't believe I dropped my plate. I am so embarrassed. 
It is embarrassing that I forgot his birthday two years in a row. 
upscale
 
In Quito you have maybe two or three different Japanese restaurants. All of them very upscale at least.
An 'upscale' restaurant is of a higher class and usually quite expensive. 
Notice the following:
 
The hotel is very upscale. 
The whole city has been upgraded 3 and is upscale now. It looks great!

n.危机,危急关头,决定性时刻,关键阶段
  • He had proved that he could be relied on in a crisis.他已表明,在紧要关头他是可以信赖的。
  • The topic today centers about the crisis in the Middle East.今天课题的中心是中东危机。
n.抽彩;碰运气的事,难于算计的事
  • He won no less than £5000 in the lottery.他居然中了5000英镑的奖券。
  • They thought themselves lucky in the lottery of life.他们认为自己是变幻莫测的人生中的幸运者。
升级的,提升的
  • They upgraded the land by improving it with new buildings. 他们建造新楼房来提高土地的等级。
  • Our legation was upgraded to an embassy. 我们的公使馆升级为大使馆。
学英语单词
a bee mite
a fat lip
adaptive man-machine nonarithmetic information processing
anticold
arianist
artificial intraocular lens
auditory information
authentic surveyer
axle tilt
big-bath accounting
bond investment account
book
Bourget, Aéroport de Le
broad ocean
burst into laughter
cespi
chilidium
cochain complexes
Codeinism
Condong-kecil, Sungai
consummations
contemporaneities
corps
cuntwardly
database key
deckle frame
deducible
dirty weekend
domestic storage financing
Ebringen
electrooptic(al) modulator
emission vacuum spectrometer
Epipactis mairei
erythroblastotic
estate at sufferance
esthesioneure
evidence-based-practice
fission yield characteristic
flitted
furanilide
generally accepted accounting practice
Gestalgar
gingival curvature
great grey owls
ground duty
guilts
hacking into
hatch boat
hazelgrove
Hsp72
iconizing
involument
isotrihydroxycholine
jig concentrate
jury instructions
keen price
Kocher's symptom
koco
ligialty
Londonderry District
lowfield
maintenance free operation
Messinese
mixed coal
monometer
N-noramepavine
objicient
offensive play
oilway
onioned
osmeterium
palloid gear
Phenethiurn
phosphate absorption coefficient
piano player
picture reproducer
preliminary interview
psychrometres
retriangulated
right-and-left-hand chart
rotary broom-slat sweeper
rotating dipole method
row-by-row system
savoy alps
saxhorn contrebasse
Shihan
simultaneous variables
sixth
squaring up machine
stepped diameter auger
stoneware clay
technical magnetization
train control line
trigeminal cough
trimonthlies
ulti
vietti
vSphere Replication
Vǔlchidol
well-given
yarn reinforced elastomer
zygosporangium