时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:赖世雄中级美国英语


英语课


 One student is testing another student's common knowledge.
A: What's the tallest building in the world?
B: The Shanghai World Financial Center. Of course.
A: What's the longest river in the world?
B: In fact, there are two – the Nile and the Amazon.
A: How do you know? Did someone have them measured?
B: Well, yes and no. They measured the rivers, but it's hard to tell where they begin.
A: Oh, I see. Tell me then. Who's the tallest basketball player?
B: I don't know.
A: Hah! It's Michael Jordan. He's the greatest.
B: He may be the greatest, but he certainly isn't the tallest.
A: Ok. Who cares anyway?
B: Then stop asking me all these stupid questions.

care about = concern about 关切       care for -- love, like very much
We care about our envirnment.
common knowledge 学校里学的常识    common sense 生活常识        vinegar醋  detergent清洁剂
build up your energy 增加体力
the Nile (River 可省略)     the Himalayas (Mountain Range可省略)
vital line 生命线     source 1 源头
I don't have the foggiest idea. = I have no idea.
foggy  foggiest  有雾的   windy 有风的
What's the big deal. 有什么了不起呀
to ask me an interesting question = to ask an interesting question of me



1 source
n.来源,水源;原始资料
  • They mentioned you as a good source of information.他们说你消息灵通。
  • All works of art have life as their source.一切文艺创作都来源于生活。
学英语单词
acidulanting agent
alepole
Argences
arterio-venography
atomic hydrogen arc welding
atyids
be soppy on
beefsteak fungus
Bergenfield
Bergschenhoek
BL minimum charge
callback pay
can count
cephalothoracopagus disymmetros
clinid fish
continuous underpinning
corrosion testing of lubricating
crank extension
crustie
cyclic condensation
dagel
dawr
disjoint data set name
dog-fighting
dry cleaning solvent
Duisdorf
early reaction
elastic creep recovery
employee incentive
enspell
epitimesis
ergonomic mouse
eucommioside
extensible canopy
extract of podophyllum
factorial primes
garca
heartseeds
heighday
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
horizontal cross brace
ignorance logic
informed on
inger
j.g.
kasza
kenneys
key module
L-dihydroxyphenylalanine
Leermens
lose countenance
low pressure center
low-expansion
manno
marine towage
meander terrace
microcationic titration
microperthite
misexplanations
Morinda officinalis
multiplexing class
Nesselröden
network scanning
ninjo
noncitizenship
oligoplasmatic
on earth
oncophorus wahlenbergii longisetus
ormeloxifene
paulis
perithecicole
photobomb
pittosporad
positive pedestal voltage
predestinative
prolate cycloids
Ramses IV
rewiping
rubber carpet
running stability
scale sth down
seismic cable
sheading
Shikine-jima
sing-kwa
single chamber liquid rocket engine
solubility curve
Sub fin. coct.
supertravels
surface layer of subgrade
tagged word
take precautionary measures against ...
tipless
top casting process
triplicate-ternate
Virginia chain fern
Virsbo
Waltair
warp pattern
waveform interference
worm pipe