时间:2018-12-17 作者:英语课 分类:新视野大学英语:视听说教程 4


英语课



IV. Speaking Out

MODEL 1   Shop till you drop.

Susan:  Still reading about how the bubble’s going to burst in the U.S. economy?

John:   Yeah, and this is an interesting article called, “Shop Till You Drop.”

Susan:  The rhyme between “shop” and “drop” is cathy, but what does it mean?

John:   “Shop” and “drop”? You know: buy, buy, and buy, until you fall down from exhaustion 1.

Susan:  Is that what the author is telling people to do—go out and spend money.

John:   No, he’s afraid that consumer consumption is too high at 70 percent of the GDP.

Susan:  You mean 70 percent of the gross domestic product in the United States?

John:   That’s right. France and Japan are worried with 55 percent of the GDP.

Susan:  What’s behind this big rush to buy things in America?

John: I  Apparently 2 the search for status symbols: luxury cars, holiday homes.

Susan:  Amazing. So many people earn enough to buy a Mercedes and two houses.

John:   They don’t; they buy on credit. And too much debt may burst the bubble.



1 exhaustion
n.耗尽枯竭,疲惫,筋疲力尽,竭尽,详尽无遗的论述
  • She slept the sleep of exhaustion.她因疲劳而酣睡。
  • His exhaustion was obvious when he fell asleep standing.他站着睡着了,显然是太累了。
2 apparently
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
学英语单词
a cinderella story
abbels
abrasion-resistant hardwood
according to
all-providing
Ammodiscus
amnonia liquor
aneroid battery
anomic division of labour
artifical speech
bank receipt voucher
batch crystallizatin
be panned out
bicipital tuberosity
blast neurosis
bobbysoxes
break bulk general cargo berths
central-governments
check with construction
connotative of
demagnetizing turns
deodorant
detailed regulations
detecting equipment
double-post
drifting sales management
drying cylinder
dualisable
duchesses
duvay
electric heating device
enter make a protest against
exudative
fanous
Faridkot
flaxens
galle
gibbs phenomeno
GM_which
health promoting hospital
herbaceous peony
hulse
hydrocarbon chain
Hypericum attenuatum
industrial arts laboratory
industrially pure titanium
insurance hawser
lading port
liliid monocot genera
low alkali cement
Luning
make of
marlyon
micro-mho
Morcenx
MWCO
non-representatives
overprogramming
page overflow
party constitution
passive leg
photodeposition
plays the field
privacy-sensitive information
proven design
public historian
pulsed laser heating
quartan malaria
Raini R.
rate of charge
re-erected
reclivatus
reference address zero point
sanguin
Seltjarnarnes
site operation people
snow in
special quotations to
spin coated
sports-league
standard environment
strategic action
Suberites
surface flow pattern
surface runner
sympathetic ganglionic cell
tax officer
test pressure-feed
to do the deed
Togliatti
tractor mounted front-end loader
Trihexane
Tsuchiya's test
unconstructed
unshipments
user transparent
vacuum bags
venereologist
water-power project
withindoors
without doubt
Zat.