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
Abū Fulah
accessory gear
acetins
actifs
Adrados
advice-boat
alanineketoacidtransaminase
ampere meter
badly-decomposed
baked clay
Bang Pa Han
brazenface
burr and chip relief
cathode noise
ceiling plan
compiled language
complex adjustment
description language
diary fatigue
differential freight rate agreement
distance range
distressingnesses
distributed function terminal
downbeat
dyspneic respiration
eco-resorts
elastomeric seal
explosive power
exponent transform
flexibility of wood
forgetting error
ginnee
hanafizes
Hatshetsup
heteromorphic homologues
high alkalinity
hole gauge
IASLIC
immunomodulatory
implementation procedures
in transition
input-data strobe
internal and external
Irano-
jennison
labrea
land of promise
large-tailed antshrikes
lead-minings
liquation process
luminous surface
marketing researcher
minor telephone office
mislaird
momentary aspect
Mulgathing
multi-stemmed
multiple measurements
nist-traceable
non-viral
Ordram
pelagophile
pentlandites
phallomere
photosensitization disease
pigpens
plank board
postact
potpourris
predominancy
present serviceability rating
prevalence
primary program operator interface task
proportionated
pulpal wall
raik
re-use of forms
responser speed
ring resonator length
river bed profile
rodmen
Satanizing
scavenging compressor
screw plate
seedling selection
selvedge mark
slap-dab
slavatas
small hole
SNOMED
snow white and the seven dwarfs
steam valve bronze
structure initialization
summer
take no prisoners
tapetum cell
tennist
terezin
Transportation Secretary
traveling-salesman
upbreathing
Vitis quinquangularis