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
absolute incremment
aglomerular teleost
annah
authorized program
automatic pressing
axiomation
Balmaceda, L.
berthon boat
Beyendorf
brothered
built in thrust bearing
carpenters screw clamp
cereal food
change of contract
chattier
chlorimiramine
compression-type refrigerating machine
computer-enhancement
crane shot
croton falls
crowning of head
currency without legal rate
cut ... some slack
daphniphyllum longeracemosum rosenth
desinors
Dirichlet-Jordan conditions
distribution free test of fit
enhedging
eukaryotic
excessive gradient
fast switch
fetischism
flippin' shit
FTI-277
funiculus anterius medullae spinalis
Ghirlandaio, Domenico
goodshot
grasping tongs
group-specific antigen
hope
hygrocybe miniata
industrial accelerator
jucund
Kerr-Newman black holes
laser communication system
LASIK
limited responsibility clause
literal agraphia
local derivation
love-lies-a-bleeding
low density charge
malpractice insurance
Mammalia
matcovered
maytree
meshcement
microbiologies
MM intensity scale
mobile hydraulic crane
multicolored filter
multispeed electric machine
multivallate
My301
not by a fraction
ofamerica
option money
optrode
output files
palmately lobed leaf
pelican flowers
pendens
peri-naphthindane
peritectic solidification
pigswills
platelet agglutination
Platonist
polyfluortetraethylene plate
QSE
raster laser plotter
razor - billed auk
remind of
remove obstacles
resoluing power of mass spectrograph
rode bitch
sampling investigation
seconds in command
Simplex stern tube stuffing box
single wheel hoe
specular glass
stoutenberg
threaded fitting
time-line interview
tovi
turns and turn about
webshop
windlashed
Wirralian
with suspicion
xg
yap
Yarmouth bloater
zone of indifference