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 ethanol
aggregate value of listed stock
al-'Uzza
alloy of mercury
aniline formaldehyde resin
asymptotic stability
bawcock
business executive
case grammar
chocolate pansy
clobedolum
Code Civil
colloidion baby
color resolution
confusion (of radio sources)
conjunctival diphthery
convex subset
current noncurrent method of translating
Deane, Silas
dimia formosana
disagreeable smelling gas
dna-analysis
domotic
dusked
emergency rescue
frequency-modulation laser
genus Crataegus
gibco-brl
government-income
Grand Beach
graphic-recording
Grawitz
gulfy
haemometer
hand miller
hardwired controller
high-sided
history of genetics
inonotus chilanshanus
interaction among parameters
jawboneist
last clear chance
linarias
lock lever spring
lonoke
lp record
Maloney, Lake
Mashonaland North Prov.
mergism
mezza
microgametophyte
monomethylmercury
Motyginskiy Rayon
Nam Duong
national accounting system
next generation Internet
nut press
organa visus
outguess
overvoltage release
pallido-
palpating
pantisocratical
particular sphere of producion
phase constant
Phycomycetes group
plate for ultra-microminiaturization
plugged steel
plunger electromagnet
power-producing reactor
pseudo-pseudohypoparathyroidism
pub.
real-time visual information
reisses
right to recover
Ringarooma
roll contact length
rubidium bifluoride
scattering ion energy ratio
septimates
silicone paint
sinno
star photometer
starter cut-off
stay awake
steady heat conduction
STOMIATIFORMES
stub wall
stuffed bottle gourd
sub-zero oil
subscription received in advance
sulfur hexameter
survival dose
synchronized culture
tegumentary
telephone firewall
turboplate ice-maker
up to the elbow with
vanni
washing jar
wheat brushing
whistling in the wind