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
aard-vark
abbreviated signal code
acreinch
active elctronic countermeasures
acute febrile jaundice
advanced run-length limited encoding
aggregate value of invention
arenonium ion
artificial digestion
bank code
biaxial principal vibration axes
blastogenic force
calf muscle
cardiac pacemakers
Castellanella brucei
cognitive processing model
colic root
compiled knowledge
compressed voice
computer aided planning
coppedges
curtais
cyano complex
damp production
dislipidemia
diverter valve unit
equipment input
fall dust
farewel
fascia diapbhagmatis urogenitalis superior
fox-fur
furtum non manifestums
gallina
gas jet propulsion
Gobernador Virasoro
Guinea green
habitual violator
hall-effect modulator
hammonds
hygiene in breast feeding period
idramina
implicit policy
inert inductor
infrared image processor
infrared spectrograph
kleiunian
Kouembali, Chutes
Lanare
lowellville
make-to-order
male (screw) thread
mastaxes
metal tab
multichines
Multipoint circuit.
mulugetta
n-dinonyl ketone
nanodisks
nasiform
nitrosoo-dyes
off spinner
ofshe
papillary adenoma of colon
parlatoria crotonis
pexinogen
pharyngotome
Portgordon
positive-working photoresist
public security penalty
pulmonary transpiration
Queen City of the Pacific
quotidian malaria
rabuka
ramatu
reflex
releasor
residual intelligibility
resistance to deformation
saine
scan counter
separated layer oil production rate
set sth off
Sight Money
spathaceous
spatial temperature distribution
steam blowdown
stenchings
strabo
strain ga(u)ge measurement
super-multi
Ségou, Rég.de
tall growth
telesignalling
Third-Worldism
tordoes
Trifolium dubium
vactor
wco
weighted reciprocal lattice
wellshire
without apology
wrhs