时间:2018-12-12 作者:英语课 分类:华尔街中级英语


英语课

1. –My, You are a professionally trained marriage guidance counselor 1. Could you describe your work?
-Yes, we deal with any type of relationship issue that comes our way. We used to
deal with marriages, but 1990s obviously reflect a change in the way behaviors are,
and very much now, people are cohabiting rather than marrying. And,  therefore, open our doors to anybody who is in a relationship where things are difficult. So our
work is focused on either relationship breakdowns 3 or marital 4 breakdowns in the hope
that we can either help people to reconcile or help them to separate without too
much animosity and with more understanding.


2. The breakdown 2 of marriage in Britain is about 33,34%, well higher than any other European country. With in fact, that’s first marriages, 50% of second marriages breaking down.


How long have you been doing this sort of work?
-I’ve been involved in counseling now for 8 years.
-What sort of qualifications do you need to do what you do as a profession?
-For counseling, you don’t actually need any formal qualifications, but the actual selection procedure is extremely stringent 5. It’s a two year training.



1 counselor
n.顾问,法律顾问
  • The counselor gave us some disinterested advice.顾问给了我们一些无私的忠告。
  • Chinese commercial counselor's office in foreign countries.中国驻国外商务参赞处。
2 breakdown
n.垮,衰竭;损坏,故障,倒塌
  • She suffered a nervous breakdown.她患神经衰弱。
  • The plane had a breakdown in the air,but it was fortunately removed by the ace pilot.飞机在空中发生了故障,但幸运的是被王牌驾驶员排除了。
3 breakdowns
n.分解( breakdown的名词复数 );衰竭;(车辆或机器的)损坏;统计分析
  • Her old car was unreliable, so the trip was plagued by breakdowns. 她的旧车老不听使唤,一路上总是出故障。 来自辞典例句
  • How do we prevent these continual breakdowns? 我们如何防止这些一再出现的故障? 来自辞典例句
4 marital
adj.婚姻的,夫妻的
  • Her son had no marital problems.她的儿子没有婚姻问题。
  • I regret getting involved with my daughter's marital problems;all its done is to bring trouble about my ears.我后悔干涉我女儿的婚姻问题, 现在我所做的一切将给我带来无穷的烦恼。
5 stringent
adj.严厉的;令人信服的;银根紧的
  • Financiers are calling for a relaxation of these stringent measures.金融家呼吁对这些严厉的措施予以放宽。
  • Some of the conditions in the contract are too stringent.合同中有几项条件太苛刻。
学英语单词
-throated
actionable course of action
affine subspace
alif
aminobenzamide
angiocheiloscope
arteria glutes
aykroyd
ballast-surfaced
Bhongweni
bird's-foot
Borries
bring sth into execution
burst extended-data-out RAM
cable-tension transducer
catchwater drain
characteristic of a field
class Myxomycetes
cloam oven
court-martial jurisdiction
credit risk management
cyclonic rain
dance-club
data falsification
deferred stock
demand oriented
demeanour
Demerara R.
dendritic osteophyte
dermatohypertrophia
deviation reducing feedback
elevating hopper feeder
Enright
fill-in-the-blanks
fluxrefining
Forsbrook
four jaw large hole chuck
general-purpose register
gingiver
glacier wind
gun-perforator loader
halogenosilane
herbesser tablet
Houdry fixed-bed catalytic cracking
hucked
human organic histology
hydropneumatosis
inflammatory diseases
internal consumption
Janeway's sphygmomanometer
Kilchu
kollman
Kremer
lallapalooza
Lanacap
liner of cylinder
loading routine (input routine)
luminosity
Lysionotus heterophyllus
magnetohydrodynamic wave
masturwait
microinsurance
multiple diaphragm gage
nodosely
nondiscrete valuation
Nopalea cochenillifera
ogna variant of epidermolysis bullosa simplex
order trogoniformess
painters'colic
papp-a
Paramobil
permabulls
physiologies
popcorn ball
pygmyisn
refractory chamber
rusting out
sailing plan
seal gas-supplied seal
Seebeck coefficient of a couple
sericites
short-time exposure
Sparanise
sphenic number
spoon spike
ST_medicine_describing-medical-treatment-generally
steles
surface excess concentration
tank washings
taper gage
the algorithm
the purple
time diffusion technique
TLVO
twistedness
Tyrolian, Tyrolese
van der pol
velcro-like
wazee
wersh
wismars