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
2-bromoquinoline
accelerated graphics ports
anticoding
aplphobia
assembling beside ditch
Atkara
attenuators
big falls
bipolar static induction transistor
boron phenyl difluoride
bottom piston ring
bovrilizes
breakdown field strength
cambering attachment
center brake
Chunchon
clause train
coextraction
comprehensivist
compression casting
crocodylians
Daemado
decollement
detector bolt
diagram on the plane of the equinoctial
diamondiferous
disk feeder
Earth-return circuit.
electronic keying
epicentres
fertilizine
fluorophotometrictitration
fodder yeast
fulminic
genus Artemia
ghada
go to the front
God comes to see without a bell.
goodiess
ground pounder
guide vane link
helical agitator
helper cells
high strength insulating varnish
hypermyelohemia
inbetween
induced dipole
infrared sound transmitter
iodine affinity
isocryptotanshinone
Jaguar Seamount
kaisa
Kaunda
key drive tapered spindle nose
knowledge workers
limited-space-charge accumulation
Manebach twin law
metal vapor pressure
metallurgical automation
metapuzzle
Microcyprini
mouse-ears
nidamental gland
nonasphaltic
note receivable protested
operation control module
out of measure
perfectioner
populational
rabbit moth
re-exist
rock goods
Salmanazar
Samrah
sand laminae
schlieren set-up
shelterbelt
short-line connection
short-wave adapter
sillicosis
smooth water area
soda oil
sode slip
St Ninians
stalwartize
stoga cigars
stoichiometric number of B
street theatre
subsidiary commercial transaction
support type expansion installation
Synpen
Taylor buildup factor
teint
tirf microscopy
urinate frequently
vampy
vasses
Vicente
water cresting
western hollyleaf cherry
whisper test
wire tie machine