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
abbreviated installation
accordion theory
adenomatoid polyp
afpol
agalope formosana
Ateriovinca
atmosphere dust
be dead gone in love
bellows seal adaptor
Beverstone
black and white work
Carnesville
composite market
conidiole
constant ignition
contact relay
country club
crisis planning system
damianoes
data marker
disulfur
diver suit
effective sweep width
embedded memory
emulsion stability
epidemes
evergreen credit
fluorochlorohydrocarbons
foot-in-the-door technique
fundamental length
futurity industry
glossocinesthetic
gobitis
guzman
Hooray Henries
immediate delivery permit
importunest
Indian stone
induced disease
initial operational capability (ioc)
interrenal organs
Lindenhurst
linear measurement
load-ratio control transformer
lower flammability limit
lullings
lyopilapparatus
made a scene
main arc
maintenance building
master slice
Matthew Arnold
membrane tension
mikes
mini-grants
mobile video
momy
MOS amplifier
multiple gun cathode ray tube
n-cell array
n-types
nanoceramic
nigrescigenin
no-takest
North Pacific Region
nsws
Nāomīd, Dasht-e (Nāumid, Dasht-i-)
Och'ajin-ri
oil compass
order procellariiformess
over burning
parectasis
paydirts
portal block
quartern
rat race
router server
sarasins' turbinal (or septomaxillaries)
Schultz-Charlton test
self cleaning grizzly
shell-rock
shipping marks
sinar
sorplers
sortavala
stationary-
supersolvable
TEM wave
tex (automatic teleptinter exchange service)
thevelene
thin diet
third penny
total critical load
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de
trace file
undeafening
under-blankets
uvicon
vaudevillelike
voluntary movement
Wakhan Corridor
worthly