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
-ptysis
air hose coupler
air-monitoring
aliquo
amplitude quantizing
aortic dissection
aranged
attomole
autohaploid
Balfourian
Behrens, Peter
beoren
bisexlile
braille type push button
braudy
broadcast standard
chill wash
classification of balance sheet items
clubbed-finger
Compact PCI
Corydalis adoxifolia
cross stroke
deejaying
deferred pension
disorganic
distribution-free detector
down l.
economic slowdown
emergency procedures
encephalartos
eqilateral mine
Erlich
finite state machine
floorplanned
forhevedness
forkiness
Frankia
gracious
hermetically sealed relay
high-prob sizer
Horve
huckleberry
humanity geography
hysterectonize
in for a penny
Kimye
Knittlingen
leg-spin
level of documentation
macrophilia
marker-pens
material abstract
Mauro
mistranslations
montral
myxosporium psidii
national committee on antarctic research (new zealand) (ncar)
open close
ophioglossums
outboard logical unit
outboard suction isolation
phase-wrapping
pin-feather
plumb line deviation
proper subquotient
Quintin
rascovsky
Re-Insurance Agreement
Scripture cake
sec.-butyl
self-distraction
separate-excited block oscillator
serum acident
Shropshires
sightable
single-shot trigger circuit
solar pumping system
spinosaurid
ST_thinking-about-the-future_planning-expecting-and-arranging
STCS
steel bar hoop spiral bending machine
steel cage match
stimulus diffusion
stretch the law
structure column
subfamily Garrulinae
superinverse
Symplocos persistens
tafarodi
taste test
technologist
Tetracin
the highland games
theory of plate tectonics
two-tier pay plans
type-faces
Vaghena I.
waxing development
whye
wing-game
zirconio-