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
-tion
a tightsqueeze
abour
adaptive color shift
adight
advance material requirement
Afife
air cell combustion chamber
alarm hammer shaft
anti-corrosion plug
aure
bismuth salicylate
bush-fires
caffeine sodiosalicylate
Cannon's test
challenges
chloral acetophenone
chrome horn
common mode noise
communication of power system
correction for deflection of vertical
cover paper
coyote bush
daunts
Decasone
deuterion
diphtheria antitoxin unit
disfriendship
eimeriidaes
electronic time meter
evelyns
flat bottom punch
fosmids
frequency character
gave place to
giustizieri
glutamic-pyruvic transaminase
hamat
Hemenahei I.
hohs
Hutag
hydraulic engineering grade
Jitpur
kangaroo-piss
kods
Kolarians
loading coil spacing
mercantile financial report
midgap gate material and threshold voltage
MM (main memory)
modern-styles
Mohmand Agency
molecular attraction
morselled
navigable
neighbouring valence
number of calving
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratories
paddle wool washing machine
papasan chair
parentship
Pascidaber
Pedra Azul
peptide
pilot tender
port bridge
proceeder
pseudocythere deviata
Pulo
radiofrequency thermocoagulation for gasserian ganglion
rawnsleys
re-elevating
ready to start
refereeings
require performance of an obligation
return valve
rt (radiographic test)
salesmanly
semiconductor microcavities
semipronated
shielded x-ray tube
sound samples
stanchness
statistics of social insurance
steering tube bush
tail dragger
telesong
testamentary script
trainfuls
unadvantaged
underutilises
unilateral stimulus
unweaponized
UVF
vacuum plasma melting
water exclusion
water-holding capacity
wideband active repeater satellite
wild ass
winged everlasting
X-gal
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