时间:2018-11-27 作者:英语课 分类:背诵为王第一册


英语课

11 An Embarrassing 1 Show



The day of the school science fair had finally arrived, and Lisa was both nervous and excited. She couldn't wait to show off her volcano 2 model at the fair. She might even win the first prize!

As Lisa was setting 3 up her volcano, she noticed her friend Alex's project on the table next to hers. Weeks ago, Alex had asked her for help in creating a model of the solar system, and Lisa was glad to help. He never told her he is going to enter it in the Science Fair! His model was painted beautifully in different colours. Finally Alex got the first place and Lisa felt very embarrassed 4.



fair 展览会

nervous 神经紧张的,不安的

excited 兴奋的

show off 炫耀

volcano 火山

project 设计,计划

create 创作,创造

solar system 太阳系

embarrassed 觉得难堪的





一次令人难堪的展览



学校的科学展览日终于到来了,丽莎既紧张又兴奋。她等不及要在展览会上炫耀她的火山模型。她甚至有可能赢得第一名!



正当丽莎组装她的火山时,她注意到旁边桌子上她朋友亚历克斯的设计。几星期前,亚历克斯曾请她帮助他创作一个太阳系的模型,丽莎很乐意地帮助了他。可他从没告诉过她他打算拿它参加科学展览!他的模型色彩鲜艳。最终亚历克斯获得了第一名,丽莎觉得很难堪!



1 embarrassing
adj.使人尴尬的,令人为难的v.(使)窘迫,(使)局促不安( embarrass的现在分词)
  • His jokes didn't even raise a smile, which was embarrassing. 听了他讲的笑话,都没人笑一下,真是太尴尬了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I was in the embarrassing position of having completely forgotten her name. 当时我完全忘记了她的名字,很是尴尬。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 volcano
n.火山
  • The volcano unexpectedly blew up early in the morning.火山一早突然爆发了。
  • It is most risky to go and examine an active volcano.去探察活火山是非常危险的。
3 setting
n.背景
  • The play has its setting in Vienna.该剧以维也纳为背景。
  • Where and when a story takes place is called the setting.故事发生的地点和时间称为故事背景。
4 embarrassed
adj.尴尬的,不好意思的
  • He was very embarrassed to hear people speak so highly of him.他听见别人这样夸他,感到很难为情。
  • He is somewhat embarrassed.他稍微有点窘迫。
学英语单词
A-G
Aholibamah
alphabetical filing
amphibiolite
ampulla verticalis anterior
Anisograptus
anti-skining agent
antipodagric
antorcha
Armenian rite
asgharzadeh
attitude error rectification
average sley
be the bomb
bead saw
beedie
Belgian looping mill
blenchers
bonytail chub
Bulzi
camptothecins
cercospora sagittariae ellis et kellerman
Cherkas'ka Oblast'
combined system disease
conceptualiser
crasher-run aggregate
cyclothymias
debt capacity
dissociation jaundice
dome casing
drill head machine
drive someone to despair
dropped the bomb
envyfree
epitizide
flap type gate
four-nations
full filement voltage
German National Museum
grosets
gyro adjust
heart nerve fiber
Helodemma
ink floatation test
jugular cannulation
Kaaba
laser microwelder
laycke
lbeit
leukemic retinitis
MacConkey's bile salt agar
MEH (feedwater pump turbine electr-hydraulic control system)
menstrual vertigo
mokaba
nanosensor
nasal truss
non-thermal neutron
not for a second
oblique projection-drawing
Offence of Major Accident
operating room decorum
orbignyas
out-peep
outbent
parakinetal
perona
Polyaethylenglycola
polypodium eusatum thunb.
portable linear ratemeter
pours down
primibrachial
prowdly
purging places
red sprite
remediless
residual heat removal reducing station
Rudbeckia serotina
sadovyi
satanophobias
secondary emission ceramics
serious crime squad
sesarmops intermedium
sews up
sharp-cut
simultaneity
standard luminosity curve
stock-exchanges
subjectdom
surbahar
surfles
surge gap
T score
test line on track
toss a pancake
Turgot
two-dimensional correlated
Ubermas
upper division college
varnedoe
wastewater treatment process
yakunin
zirconium bromide