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
aerial parts
air-dry density
angle preserving
bicartesian square
blorp
bluish-gray
bug-hunting
canulization
casting spot
center of a sample
chondrification of spleen
chromospheres
circulating surface acoustic wave delay line
conservancy of sanitation
continentis
contour diagram of joints
contour maps
copy boys
descending posterior branch
deutosulphuret
dilator pupillae muscle
double pain sensation
drop-in winding
dysgenesis
electrical initiation
electron microscope specimen holder
Elizabethan sonnet
Eubetin
everninocin
feasts of the dedication
followingly
frillins
gardenhire
graded index optic fiber
gravity culvert
high-headed
Houston Heights
in your thirties
incontrollable
initialization for equilibrium
internet law
ion exchange surface
jwst
ketatosis suprafollicularis
lig. sacrotuberale
litteriness
lysergides
male germ unit
male-specific bacteriophage
mean blade width
Medicine L.
misin
Molotov
Mswika
multifacet rotating prism
Myrica rubra Sieb. et Zucc.
narcocracy
neoandrographolide
non inductive coil
nozzle fuel injection
organ forming area
ostrich
other identifier
Pacific liner
pentapeptides
phonoscop
Phytar
premature rupture of fetal membranes
pressure unloading
proact
public decisions
puerulus larva
quadrature-modulated carrier
rotor magnet
Sagittaria wuyiensis
scaphoids
senns
serinephosphatide
settling basin (tank)
source update system processor
Stanislav
taylorsville
tekkamaki
teledus
television outlet
temporomandibular joint disorder
tiffany
to go downtown
transverse spacewidth
trichonosis versicolor
tubulization
unforgiver
unshapefulness
varactor mixer
viewres
visual information processing system
washing-off properties
work study program
Xaafuun, Raas
Yeatex
yellow brown earth
zelizer