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
accrual of a right
acylal
aeronautical map
Androuet
anti-solar point
arithmetic enable control
as blazed
autogenous inhibition
baking tunnel
bellweathers
campground
celestial-inertial integrated navigation
cell bound antibody
center cahnnel
chemical enamel equipment
chloronitrous acid
close-up focusing
co-inciding
combustion shaft
compensationmethod
corocoro
Corydalis onobrychis
cupboardsful
Cursolo
cycas
D sign
death-loving
decidual cell
declutch shaft carrier gasket
demi-tasse
depressive equivalent
dolts
double date
drum-style
Emergency Pt.
eroduction
ferrybridges
flame-out tripping device
forget to
fracture model
fresser
fringe constant
furnariid
gaging site
gastric digestion
ground water table
groys
hand gallop
handarm
histrionic
hongkong
independent cylinder
internally heated rotary drier
iron stay bolt
kany
Kennedy Space Centre
key projects
khursbat (khorsabad)
lamp stand
leamer
lovelovelove
makes it rain
mantle current
mcghan
multivariate disturbance series
night flying beetle
Nodi lymphatici gluteales superiores
nonblocking service
notch-filter method for noise measurement
overstitching machine
palm fibre
Paraboea rufescens
Pardew
pectinato-fimbriate
postpositivist
Reinhardtius matsuurae
request permission to
resistance heating evaporation
Rubrobacteraceae
sailorchest
sample divider pass
scalar processor
selective call signal
Semikarakorsk
ship length
single axis control
single-pole switching
single-wing lock washer
slut-bag
space transmission
strut rail
sulfoximides
teaching model
tealess
tenthredo formosana
tilen
transitorinesses
tremendous pressure
very-high-speed integrated circuit
wear the cloth
white-winged
wigwagging