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
abbotcy
acceptable emergence dose
acuminating
acute non-specific gingivitis
afflictings
already removed
apatheist
as tight as a drum
associonistic
atoll fruit dove
bailers
Balakan
be full of conceit
bia
Borago
box-rooms
capital loans
Capitol Hill
cetebro-
Chong-ju
colour simulator
conditour
Coolgardie
corticotomy
crvo
dancing step
Domingo de Guzman
dry-cleanable
electrostatic instrument
embraceors
erioglaucine A
feeding speed
felis pardalis mitis
flagellated protozoan
forest gods
glass-reinforced concrete (grc)
Harmonized Description Coding System
humidifying chart
ideating
indirect export
inductious
Japanese paper
larva (pl.larvae)
lateral thinking
limited obligation bond
long division
lose count of something
lose your heart to sb
love-poetry
machinery of government
mars exploration
master-apprentice
multinomial population
munshell color system
newspaper distribution system
non-Newtonian dynamics
nonthreshold logic
nonwheeled
optic axial plane
optimum-contour
order erysiphaless
ossa trigonum tarsi
passive monocular viewer
penumbrazone
plane stagnation flow in transpiration cooling
Puglia
quarrender
quitenidine
racin'
racquetlike
Rana erythraea
rapid test method
roll gage
roller bearing lubrication
run a errand
safe and sound
sand filter unit
second freedom
Siccayne
Sint Jansland
static balancing test of fan
steering tool
storing
stratigraphic code
sulci subclaviae
Tandern
tanna taipinensis
telofusain
test lenses
the going rate
trimethylbenzenes
trination
triple-start thread
unconcealment
venous claudication
vitreous insulating material
VNAB
western meadowrue
wet-and-dry-bulb hygrometers
wire terminal
Working-plan
zirconium schorlomite