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
ACC (accessories)
acerbate
americium
anisochomia
anomalous correspondence
articulatio atlanto-axialis lateralis
arundineous
axenobiosis
backing block
binding award
brominations
Bruceploitation
bulk aerodynamic method
butt-munches
chainmapping
charcoal burner
compression spectrum
construction division
copenhagen (kobenhavn)
correlative regeneration
cypraea tessellata
diastematelytria
dickmen
disagreeing with
drunkard's chair
dye liquor
enfields
fire cracked rod
fluidic devices
food-handling truck
Fourier('s) theorem
fsh/lh-rh
gastism
generator load factor
gliosome
gonarthromenigitis
hanaiborchella miurensis
hay wains
heterogenotic merozygote
hiring halls
hot subcritical reactor
hypophyseal dwarfism
indian rupee
indistinguishably
interior function
laser light scattering
lecithochirium magnaporum
loeffieria
logical operation
long-dated
Macfie Sound
mangler
metra
monitoring of the workplace
moonmobile
Mukhovo
myofiber
Napierian rule
optical amplifier modules
phosphocreatin
physarum nasuense
Piratini, R.
posthumous folds
postmodern symbolic politics
powercuts
pradiers
presomite
price-comparison
pull test machine
radiobroadcasting
recording amplifier
relatively bounded
rhenium osmium method
rhizopus microsporus rhizopodiformis
run for one's money
self interest
sellz
shuffle exchange network
single gripper feed
sjm
slide transition
spitals
St. Nick
stepped roof
storage reservoir
system of idea
take someone's breath away
the picture of
three-body reaction
ticked
trigoniocardia fornicata
truck park
unneatened
uris
vicariate community
vorax
Vulcamycin
weight rate of flow
wetting of packing
what economic law is to regulate
x - ray analysis