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
-mycin
acerbate
Aelurostrongylus
bafflingly
bath-times
Bischofszell
boneshaw
bottom hole pump
calc-alkalic series
cantilevered end
caporais
closed magnetic circuit
Coenuriasis
cone yarn
constitutional rights
cumberlandensis
Delary
dermabrasion
Dhu'fān, Bi'r
digital graphic processing technique
double arm kneader
early sign of heatstroke
edge doctor
elbow-patch
exclusive transportation service
filter factor
fly ash brick
forget about it
fourth-period
functional interface
gastric lymphangiectasis
geoclock
girland
guilers
Haeser formula
harmonic bias
hishida
jar accelerator
jebel ali
junesse
Kerr cell constant
kraftliner
L-X-rays
laryngeal cotton applicator
Mars mission
medium drying
Metoxal
milleria formosana contradicta
modulation of beam intensity
mutual bearings
mysteriously
Mīrpur Purāna
New Zealand bellbird
on the matter of
operator right and left hand process chart
order line
outdatedly
oxide coated cathode
paddlefoot
pam/fm/fm
period of office
pipe vines
place reliance on
Polonius
portable signal disc
potassium metathioarsenite
potassium titanate whisker reinforcement
praecocial
print contact
retouching frame
rhythmic movement
Rubik's cubes
sacu
sentence constituent
shalhoub
solid carcinoma
Solresol
spring-tine harrow
stack automaton
Stamsund
steam injection gas turbine
stiff mill
studebakers
surquidant
sylvaticums
Taxus wallichiana
tee pipeT
tollings
Torneros, Sa.de los
tough-policy
tourd
track inspector
traction boiler
tuple value
uploadable
vibist
water vulcanization
water-sprinkling
whipmaking
witticising
wolf's-fist
zinc acetate