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
analogous tissue
audio clinic
auto matograph
avraham
batching pump
bill-me order
BPB
bunched pair
burial garments
cakebox
chain-fold packing
chronic intra-orbital myositis
closing wedge
conglobed
conjecturally
consumer intelligence
cotton candies
crossed oil grooves
curleth
curly pearlite
deoppilation
dihomocinchonine
dirt and foreign matter
dukedog
elastic sheet analogue
engber
expression symbolic
extraction mark
family Gasterosteidae
flying technique
foramen trochlear
forging hydraulic press
Galliformes
globotriaosylsphingosine
gold-doped germanium detector
Hasanpur
Hi-speed USB
i don't envy you
Ikato
indication of positions
invasion of blood chamber by heat
iso 8879
J curves
knee tendon reflex
knee type base unit
knife fuse
kopper
La Adela
labyrinth stuffing box
laying on meat
le brun
level alignment
lie at
maximum take-off weight authorized
menstrual hygiene
minimum toggle frequency
mud flats
nominal capacitance
nonhierarchical
now-vacant
off-the-grid
outline half-tone
palaeobiometrics
panel work
partially qualified name
perityphlitic abscess
posterior spinocerebellar tract
pouvoirs
primary source rod
principal vertical deflection
program access
project directory
raise animal
receive not ready frame
Ribbon-Tailed
route sheet
sea bank
seed money
serrated root
shaft current
shaggy pattern
signature dishes
simultaneity equations
single strand casting machine
smoke - filled rooms
special warfare
suppressed length
synchronization primitive
thermoscreen
tilting rail
transbuccally
transformerless power-supply
transtrochanteric osteotomy
treads
triglyph
typhlology
unpatented inventions
well-ordering
white snakeroot
yard tractor
ycleped
zadoiensis