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
2H
amplitide-modulated transmitter
at a low
axiom of infinity
Bahindi
Bloch's scale
Blow Lunch
bovy
broochophony
burst forth like a fire
carychium noduliferum
charadrius dubius curonicus
chlorolymphoma
chlorophenylalanine
commercial forest land
computer program validation
cotransfections
Cynoglossum furcatum
dual projector
duloctil
electrically controlled attenuator
endomycosis
environmental impact analysis
ethical sociology
expense belonging to the preceding fiscal year
exteriorscapes
f-d-a
Fernlee
fibered manifold
first inner apical nervure
Fistful of Dollars
folded doublet
Gavīleh
genus passers
geometric mean diameter
Grabo
grey-coated
ground-state splitting
hatching method
hobelar
horizontal shading signal
induction charging
industry standards
ipsiversive
isocephalism
It is not the case.
lassaba hsuhonglini
left-handed cigarettes
linearity sector
liquid explosive drill
logatomes
long exposure
long-period average flow
louekoskis
low interest
low water flow
magnetic test coil
magneto-elastic load cell
marine dataset
mesh of grid
metallogenetic
minimoon
naked molten metal
Namburis
natural antitoxic immunity
neo-positivist epistemology
nonstarving
optimum cutting speed
organotropism
outofround
oversea chinese commercial bank
penalty free throws
polypary
Porez
quadratic response
radiocartograph
rapid translocation
rhytido-
road foreman of engines
secondhand rail
siliqua fasciata
skin actinomycosis
southbank
spell ... out
Stapledon
stearne
stoiques
suma
superhard tool material
Tarannon shales
tax colloector
teloi
Tha Li
tourism group
transducted
transformer bracket
Tricarico
tuyere arch
Undivided Account
Vaygach, Ostrov
wastebasket
watchful