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。
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a glint in one's eye
AC/DC converter
afterloads
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anode life
Auberger blood group system
begg'd
bird in question
bound-bound laser
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cash depositor
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cervelo
Champlainian
Chinese Army technique
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courtnall
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cyclone dust catcher
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dermiformer
Diamond Harb.
dividend payment
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ectochoridea
elastic network(s)
elemental metal powder
exchange polarization
Fergusson's incision
film roll method
five valve receiver
flub the dub
fluctuation equivalent power
frequency setter
fresh driver
fringeorder
galletyle
gem stick
general aviation (ga)
genus boswellias
goods collecting and distributing centers
grangerizations
guyon
immaterial to the question
incineration site
income tax allocation
insertio lateralis
international registration of marks
Jamālwāl
just for you
ketopantoic acid
Kohath
Kosalam
lattice arch
lipochromous
mandment
mass-selling
mutant protein
natural tangent
Nazareth Bank
nonitor top
not have a good word for someone
oil-bath filter
Oistrakh, David
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one-side laplace transformation
paper-mache
particle spectrometer
pistia
PM reactor portable medium power reactor
predetermined factor overhead
PTO Patent and Trademark Office
railway signal
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refuse payment
restrengthening
roller for rocker arm
Santa Eudóxia
sarcomatous
semi-yearly
serokinase
Shelter Island
smegging
Syringopicroside
tellicherry (thalassery)
terminal identifier
that's the boy
thymic virus
toshogu
total physical response
triple cloth
twisting bar
Valenzuela, I.
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vided
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workshoppe
wounds
wrapped poisson distribution
your best
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