时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:新视野大学英语:视听说教程 1


英语课

Task 3: Halloween

Some people really enjoy Christmas, or Valentine’s Day, or Easter, or have a huge family reunion

or barbecue on the Fourth of July. Some people look forward to stuffing 1 themselves with turkey

every year on Thanksgiving. Great as those are, they don’t compare with my favorite. I LOVE

Halloween! Why Halloween? Well, Halloween is the night of the year when we can all get dressed

up as someone else, pretend 2 and let our imaginations run wild. Even adults get a free pass to go

back to their childhood and become that kid still inside all of us. It’s also the one night of the year

when we get to shine light on the dark, and confront 3 monsters, ghosts, witches 4, and all things

dead. We get to confront our biggest fears, as both children and adults, and reassure 5 ourselves that

there’s really no reason to be afraid of things we see at night.

Christmas     Thanksgiving      dressed      imaginations      adults      childhood

shine         confront          dead        reassure          at night

 



1 stuffing
n.填充物vt.填充(stuff的现在分词)
  • We had a chicken and stuffing, and new potatoes from the garden. 我们吃了只百宝鸡,还有园子里种的新鲜马铃薯。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She had already mixed the stuffing for the dumplings. 她已经把饺子馅和好了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2 pretend
vt.假装,假托,装扮;vi.假装,装作
  • So you don't need to pretend,do you?所以你不必装假了,对吧?
  • Many people pretend that they understand modern art.许多人装着自己懂得现代艺术。
3 confront
vt.遭遇,勇敢地面对,正视,使对质
  • A soldier has to confront danger.士兵须面对危险。
  • We must confront future with optimism.我们必须乐观地面对未来。
4 witches
n.女巫,巫婆( witch的名词复数 );讨人嫌的丑女人v.女巫,巫婆( witch的第三人称单数 );讨人嫌的丑女人
  • Witches used to be burned at the stake. 巫婆过去要被处以火刑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Witches ain't got no power in the daytime." 巫婆白天是没有法力的。” 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
5 reassure
v.使放心,使消除疑虑
  • This seemed to reassure him and he continued more confidently.这似乎使他放心一点,于是他更有信心地继续说了下去。
  • The airline tried to reassure the customers that the planes were safe.航空公司尽力让乘客相信飞机是安全的。
学英语单词
aculeatiflorus
adelsheim
antirachitic value
apportionment of cost variance
armoriques
audit contract
automatons
baroquerie
beater grid
blood volume expander
business condition
can pack
cartographic feature
Cast aspersion
casting sand
chabasie
chemical constant
clad steel
claro obscuro
clientships
coal mine solid waste
commercial administration law
complex series
Contra-dance.
coronavirus group i swine gastroenteritis
crabbiest
CRacemization
cumulus drying
demand schedule
DHPU
dialectical reasoning
diamond-bearing
digital information display
diplorrhyncine
doxological
drive down
excess in luxuries
exhortest
fabric body
family Lophiidae
fertilizer unit
free-rotor gyro
great driffield
hand-coded compiler
Hawkers Act
hill-drop boot
infinitis
interrupt program signal
isochronous vibration
isomorphic graph
keyhole escutcheon
laliques
language art
leuc-
life-science
Magnesium-Allanite
magnetic electricity
mannington
multi-functional blood collecting vehicle
musical film
mutato nomine de te fabula narratur
neuroarchitecture
newly-installeds
noelia
non-communal
orgiasts
other long-term investments
outside back
oxovanadium
pipe-cutting machine
plant funds
posthuman law
pseudomamma
quadratic convergence rate
record data
reflcetivity
renfrews
retroreflected
runnions
scalfer
schedule of production
sedimentdischarge rating
shot putter
skip block welding sequence
slide test
soak period
soft art
stearins
target light valve
tear into sth
the provisions
thibaults
type designation
underrespected
untrace
valve microphone effect
weightless beam
whinings
wire resistance
wool-comb
zlatkoes