时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:赖世雄中级美国英语


英语课

 


  In the past, the children of Asia had very few choices. A son would usually follow in his father'sfootsteps and do the same kind of job as his father. But now, young people have higher education whichopens doors to new kinds of jobs. TV exposes kids to new ideas from other countries.

So, the younger generations of Asians are doing things their parents never dreamed of. They're investingin stocks 1 or dying 2 their hair purple. Unfortunately, some are also getting into trouble with sex and drugs.

Asian parents whose children are doing all this do have a reason to be worried.


 


generation gap 3 代沟

The generation gap seems very large today, because children today are very independent.

In the past people walked to work, because they had no cars.    in the past 可以用 uesd to do 代替

accountant 4 会计师

official 文官   officer 武官

My neighbor bought the same kind of car as my father.

lousy

Don't expose yourself to too much sun in the summer.

TV 电视节目    the TV 电视机

I dreamed of Peter last night. It was awful.      dream of 梦想,梦见

That's the trend 5. 潮流,时髦

creative 创意的

get into trouble with 惹上麻烦



 



1 stocks
n.(树木等的)干( stock的名词复数 );公债;家系;家族
  • The manager wants to clear off the old stocks in the warehouse. 经理想把仓库里积压的存货处理掉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They want to unload the stocks on the market. 他们想把股票在市场上抛售掉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 dying
adj.垂死的,临终的
  • He was put in charge of the group by the dying leader.他被临终的领导人任命为集团负责人。
  • She was shown into a small room,where there was a dying man.她被领进了一间小屋子,那里有一个垂死的人。
3 gap
n.缺口;间隔;差距;不足,缺陷
  • We must see that there is no gap in our defence.我们必须确保我们的防御没有漏洞。
  • There is a gap of five miles between towns.镇与镇之间相隔五英里。
4 accountant
n.会计员,会计师
  • I'm an accountant at a foreign bank.我在一家外资银行做会计。
  • He was satisfied with his earnings as an accountant.他对自己会计师的收入很满意。
5 trend
n.趋势,倾向,方位;vi.倾向,转向
  • Today's trend is toward less formal clothing.眼下时尚趋向于穿着随便。
  • The trend of prices is still upwards.物价的趋向是仍在上涨。
学英语单词
a jack of all trades
abdominal sursery
accidentally convergent
APAD
artificial withering
ascoli
Atislav
backcourt
barlach
base run behavior
bitter pignut
black box approach
bronchitises
by chute
canvass for
commutating machine
complex velocity function
dahlkemper
dither
dodrat
double self fleeting type capstan
east african development bank
elctro-dialysis
Emtsé
eyring
false egg
Fati, L.
frictional characteristics of lubricants
gazehounds
Gbatosso
gorgonised
groveler
He is no lawyer.
Helotium
hydrophobization
ice cream cone
important-looking
in the following
inhomogeneous plane wave
irreular
isolative
Kafr Shibīn
Kiyāt
KTV girls
kushitani
loading ports
main raw materials
makler
Manx cat
melusine finish
Midland County
miraculousness
mohs'scale of hardness
more than the sum of
mutawakil
not forbidden by law
oblique case
oil string casing
olfactory system
Opponent-colors theory
Pellaro
piss-elegance
pluripara
pohutukawas
precipitation index
principal indication
Pym, John
pyrotags
quasi-particle number operator
quinoplasmine
railmotor
raw red fox skin
realia
resediments
respidering
resurrected erosion surface
rigid caster
roquefort
sado-fascist
San Remo
sauroid cells
semi-Thue system
Shahjahanpur
shipboard instrument
shops
soaplessness
Sorokin, Pitirim Alexandrovitch
Sosa, Cerro
spermospora taiwanensis
start-stop network
super search mode
supraorbitally
teloi
tenter drying
teratogenic effect
tricyclopentadienyl-methoxyuranium
triptraps
triquark
typical profile
vaidyas
variable end point
water sample bottle