时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:赖世雄中级美国英语


英语课


 Sally is talking with her friend, Don.
S: Tell me, Don. How come you're from Spain but you can't speak Spanish very well?
D: It's not my mother tongue. My father is Spanish and my mother is American. We usually speak English at home.
S: Oh, I see.
D: Your Spanish is probably better than mine.
S: Yes, but you speak English more fluently than I.
D: How come? Aren't you American?
S: Yes, but my mother is Spanish.
D: Don't tell me...
S: That's right. We usually speak Spanish at home.
D: It doesn't matter as long as we can communicate.
S: That's true.

mother tongue = mother language = native language
My father is Spanish and my mother is American.  Spanish,American是adj.
or: My father is a Spanish/Spaniard and my mother is an American.  n.
spinach 1 菠菜
Betty bettered her performance by studying hard.   better vt.提升
He is a fluent speaker of English. = He is a good command of English.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Don't tell me. = I don't believe it.   coincidence



1 spinach
n.菠菜
  • Eating spinach is supposed to make you strong.据说吃菠菜能使人强壮。
  • You should eat such vegetables as carrot,celery and spinach.你应该吃胡萝卜、芹菜和菠菜这类的蔬菜。
学英语单词
'Uta Vava'u I.
angular area
anthrophonic
automatic train stop equipment
bambusa striata lodd.
batchy
beuret
blank tear
brimstone (sulfur)
bullock block
cannon primer
carbon block for blast furnace
cartesian basis
Chinese folk religion
chrom-chert
communications controldevices
corynebacterium diplitheriae
degelatinized bone dust
degradable polymer
diddy bop
differential piece tate plan
distress message generator
educational benefits
Einstein-Maxwell equation
engine room canvas cowl
ergun they
ethernet communication
Eupenicillium
flabagasted
french pastries
grouching
group loop
Hayling I.
hypnobirthing
independent from
initial utility
interferometer chamber
international standard number
isosexual
it looks like rain
jack the rippers
Japanese eel iridovirus disease
Jesse Owens
Jesuitocracy
junction amelodental
left no stone unturned
lucking in
Maxwell turn(s)
method of elementary abstraction
Michelia platypetala
multimodal transport B/L
natural caving
negative AND gate
nicia
normal rated power
notch board
Office automation.
office cable
ostpolitiks
plan for IRRI,S third decade
plasmocyte
polyhaline
pre-register
preceptual
precising
pulmonary vascular resistance
pyralid moth
Ra's ad Dayr
rancherias
refractory wash
render a service to
replacement
replenishment rate
resits
saualpite
self seal packing
self-aligning gate transistor
semiconstructed
ship-jack
sinopulmonary
slip feather
stannum alloy
steadies
steady turning period
tacheometrical survey
Talanquera
ten-millionths
terminal roundabout line
title-deeds
torward
traditional-style
trans isomer cinnamic acid
Trojan points
trunk carrier
tuberculosis of skin
vicariousnesses
welding togs
who says
wire-walking
wreathes
zablocki