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
accidental eccentricity
actuating air
affine block cipher
argintic
argyrodes miniaceus
assembly trolley rails
batten observation
be full of pep
beefing something up
belvis de la jara
bioecologic
block heaters
brompheniramine
Brunauer-Emmett-Teller adsorption isotherm
butterfly child
cacoproctia
camara
Carex wushanensis
cellipetal
cermet of classification for machinery
certificate number
Chikayevo
collegiums
comfort you
control header directory
creep of metal
cubic kilometres
cyclolobid
degaussing computer
democratick
discontinuity of first order
dobrudjas
dried peppermint leaf
El Fuerte
enable interrupt instruction
expansion program
family Stenopelmatidae
favourable condition
floating downward
forced vibration frequency
free central placentations
geological model
geomorphic
Gibbon's hydrocele
ground magnetic survey
gyro moment
had an effect on
harbor check
heterodactyl
heterogeneous summation
Hitchcock, Sir Alfred
interface polycondensation
irreversible circulation
iteration scheme
Jacobson's anastomosis
Joranger
large intensity
larval ecology
legal instrument
lig. hepatorenale
lipid theory
loda
malaysias
Moshenskoy Rayon
norsest
organizational coordination
parrhesia
peak organisations
perfect switch
personal lift
piprotal
pistic
positive-edge
post-tensioned system
presto change
puts his foot in his mouth
rebbes
rutlin
saltchucker
self-complementing code
semicryptic
shallow bed technique
shayaln
slow neutron leakage
Sphaeromorphaea
spiral feeder
stompbox
stratoscope
supervisery instrument
synchronizing separator circuit
tent-pole movie
travel(l)er gantry
triple staining
tyre pump
unapportioned
undethrust
vehicle magnetic detector
warm runner mould
weakly monlinear differential equation
wireless directional bearing
wubba
Zinn's ligament