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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abroge
afterbody form
amphithyrid
arbitration of exchange
automatic feeding and catching table
azimuth mechanism
baboos
be at feud with
Betoral
bioclasts
black earth soil
butter-tooth
castelo de paiva
Chatuzange
combat ships
computer network services
concept discovery
departmental budget
direct debit
dispatch tube
doleiros
Droleleptan
escambray
estimates of needs and priorities
export-oriented industries
fileserver
first principles
flame-proof mine locomotive
genus Bacteroides
gleyres
go big or go home
heold
hereditaty disease
high tension mercuric bulb
hiked
Hodkinson
horserace
hystericss
in line package
jussive moods
legatum poenae nomine
loading rack
logical vocabulary
manganese power
map face
Martel, Charles
messour
murryon
mutual electrodynamic force
mutual interests
new-wed
noise control regulations
noncooperatively
noninflammability
not misdemeanour
Novigrad
Nurse-wood
oil head tank
overhead crane with magnet
P-gas
palcy
Parailmenite
philaenus minutus
phytonymy
poloxamer-iodine
production sharing
propulsion control panel
protected storage
pulvis glycyrrhizae compositus
pumping effort
rayna
roentgen diagnosis
ruined landmark
satellite orbit parameters
schnellenberger
security audit trail
shahidka
shopfabricated
shouldered sole plate
solid phase polymerization
span time
spirit process
spotted water hemlocks
static pressure drop
subcompartments
sympathetic part
take a sight of someone
tetramethylrhodamin
thermal adjunct
thermite welding
total holdup
trisalt
ulitis
unannihilable
undisabled
unguentiferous
unstable vibration
vegetative dermatosis
watches
York Center
ZnS-film