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
a scream of laughter
accumulation distribution
adamsville
after-markets
animal-watchings
aqueous extraction method
armature resistance
bank measurement
Bells on
BFE
bone fracture
Breitenhof
brown rice yield
Charp impact value
chirm
cold calls
Columnaridae
cyanophages
damage sequence
dendrocygnid
dimethyltin dibromide
dipentaerythritolmono-hydroxy acrylate
divineth
dual fission chamber
economics
Elefthero
Enovid-E
Estonians
ex-mayors
federated directories
fetotomy
flaskful
fluid hose
fraudulent activity
gearing tolerance
geocoordinates
go on the block
graphite-moderated reactor
guadalupana
handling and storage
Helenopolypus
highly branched
hydroxyphenylethanolamine
inlet jumper
intermediate time scale storage
jendra
lashing capacity
leinecker
lexigraphical
limit nominal air pressure
logophor
madama
metal-fueled reactor
method of calculation
michigan test battery
Mud Creek
multilayer ionic device
musa cavendishii lamb. dwahfbanana
nanjiangensis
non-storage camera tube
Novorybnaya
Numfoor, Pulau
nutshot
oberea shimomurai
oil tintometer
Ol Lalunga
olive-tree
open-steam coils
optimizing input drive
orpins
parvulus
permanent impairment
phytocecidium
Pleurostigmophora
Podol
precharge pulse
raconteurs
ratabulus megacephalus
responsible consumer
Rossette water sampler
scale layers
scantiest
spherulitise
splitting property of wood
sprain of quadriceps femoris
stempne
stinks out
sun-plant
super ring
sympathogonioma tenuifibrillare
take delivery of merchandise of goods
tantalizations
treadwheels
unalchemy
uncheerfully
undergirth
upstream data
vectograph
vestibular membrane of Reissner
viands
vulcanizater
zoogenic association