时间:2018-12-13 作者:英语课 分类:创新英语教程第三册


英语课
[00:10.89]Is she really going out with him?
[00:15.62]The latest census 1 in the UK
[00:21.19]has confirmed that inter-racial mariages are increasingly common,
[00:27.22]leading many journalists to claim that we are a totally tolerant society.
[00:33.25]However,despite what the census might suggest,
[00:39.00]the truth is that the vast majority of us tend to eventually marry a partner
[00:45.66]not only of the same race,
[00:49.50]but also of the same religion,class,age and background.
[00:55.56]While mixed of various descriptions may be on the increase,
[01:02.04]prejudice and social and family pressures are still very much alive,
[01:08.88]and love cannot always overcome them.
[01:13.56]We talked to two couples about their experiences.
[01:19.20]A religious divide
[01:23.85]Rachel McCarthy and David Brown decided 2 to leave Belfast,
[01:31.12]the city in Northern Ireland that they both grew up in
[01:36.16]and where their parents still live,
[01:40.21]when they got married last year.
[01:44.05]Rachel is a Catholic and David is Protestant.
[01:50.21]The two halves of the christian 3 religion are still deeply divided in Northern Ireland,
[01:57.34]and although the bombing and killing 4 which occurred between the two communities has largely stopped,
[02:04.79]as Rachel and David know,
[02:08.34]people in mixed marriages are often ostracised and verbally abused.
[02:14.58]’We actually found it difficult to find a place to live in Belfast
[02:22.03]because areas tend to be either Catholic or Protestant.
[02:27.49]That’s really why we left.
[02:31.54]Over here,we just look the same as everyone else and no one really knows
[02:37.70]-or cares-that we have different backgrounds.
[02:42.17]It has been very difficult,though,
[02:46.90]because we haven’t had any support from our families.
[02:51.44]Neither sets of parents have really come to terms with out relationship
[02:57.32]and that’s obviously been very painful.’
[03:01.76]The age gap
[03:07.32]Jamie Brodlin is twenty now and has been going out with his partner,
[03:13.70]Jane Fisher,for three years.
[03:17.46]Believe it or not,Jane has just turned sixty!
[03:23.31]They met when Jamie was out clubbing with three friends.
[03:29.06]Jane was working in the cloakroom
[03:33.32]and when Jamie came up to her and started chatting her up,
[03:38.49]she thought he was pulling her leg.
[03:42.15]’I thought he was just some lad with too many beers inside him
[03:47.79]who was doing it all for a bet.
[03:51.63]It was only later when he phoned me up to ask me out on a date,
[03:56.70]I realised just how mature and sensible he really is.’
[04:01.84]Jamie says:’To be honest,I never have gone for girls my own age.
[04:09.70]I tend to find them a bit immature 5.
[04:14.07]They usually just want to talk about music and shopping,
[04:19.34]whereas you can have a proper conversation with someonw who’s older.
[04:24.70]I guess Jane was quite a bit older than my previous girlfriend,
[04:30.55]but there was just something about her and about the way she moved
[04:36.19]and hung up the coats that caught my eye.
[04:40.56]She’s a very warm and appealing sort of woman.
[04:45.60]My mates did think it was a bit weird 6,
[04:50.14]but I just told them it’s none of their business,
[04:54.69]and now they don’t really ask about Jane.
[04:59.23]Jane often stays in with my parents when I go out clubbing.
[05:05.48]She says she’s too old for that kind of thing these days,which is fine.
[05:11.85]I was worried that my parents wouldn’t approve of her
[05:17.20]when I first broke the news to them,
[05:21.15]but they’ve been fantastic.
[05:24.99]They found it a bit difficult to accept I was in love with someone old enough to be my gran,
[05:32.12]but when they met her,they just got on really well.
[05:37.58]I don’t know if we’ll ever get married.
[05:41.73]We’ll see.We haven’t really talked about it.’


1 census
n.(官方的)人口调查,人口普查
  • A census of population is taken every ten years.人口普查每10年进行一次。
  • The census is taken one time every four years in our country.我国每四年一次人口普查。
2 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
3 Christian
adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒
  • They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
  • His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
4 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
5 immature
adj.未成熟的,发育未全的,未充分发展的
  • Tony seemed very shallow and immature.托尼看起来好像很肤浅,不夠成熟。
  • The birds were in immature plumage.这些鸟儿羽翅未全。
6 weird
adj.古怪的,离奇的;怪诞的,神秘而可怕的
  • From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来,他好像有点怪。
  • His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。
学英语单词
a pair of colours
adjoining sheets
amnemonic aphasia
anisothermal diagram
annular crucible
arundells
astun
australis surora
balance oscillator
blanket washing machine
branchiostegal ray
brevipetala
capelongo (folgares)
Cassia nodosa
clathrinid
clithon oualaniensis
cnc milling machine
cocoa tree
colloquial speech
component test facility
compression vacuum gauge
conioscinella opacifrons
controlled mine
dense element
diagnostic work
down-draw process
draf
eat well
error of the second type
ewes produce twins
family carabidaes
FMCG
fonge
for-sure
fructus xanthoxyli
glassy tuff
government-organized
guarantor employment status
hand pressure condensation
have the ability to do sth
heave a ship apeak
high-frequency induction coil
high-voltage pulser
hollinshead
horn gap switch
Hugh Capet
hull structure similar model
inherent nature of commodity
injury of elbow fascia
inspection charge
intensicon
Jenner,Sir William
joint snakes
kepi
litharch sere
Lossburg
Machanao, Mt.
melero
message entropy
mountain blacksnake
New Age Movement
orchiotomy
paper and board
patrocinations
pelvis aequabililer justo minor
pentadecylene dicarboxylic acid
periodic file
phenyl-dihydroquinazoline tannate
pius i
popcorn balls
potentiometric wheel
ppkis
preference-field index number
protein glycation
radar rainfall integrator
reencourages
refudiated
relation of market supply and demand
responsibilized
run across sth
russell-simmons
sabelline
sara crewe
scarlet toxin
shit-stirrers
siphon recording barometer
sir jack hobbss
siskind
sour odour
spool flange
stuprum
subsectional
Talidine
tempilaq
tissue roentgen
tocandiras
tongguansan
truncatella amaniensis
urnsful
warrioress
wave selector
weald-clay