时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:最新15篇文章贯通英语四级词汇


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[00:00.00]The first Christmas cards

[00:02.07]were sent in the 1840’s

[00:03.82]in both England and America.

[00:07.43]Gift giving probably stems

[00:10.05]from the Bible where

[00:11.58]it is written that

[00:12.90]three kings, bearing gifts

[00:15.19]from the Orient, visited Bethlehem

[00:17.39]when Jesus was born.

[00:19.24]We know that St. Nicholas

[00:21.76]also gave gifts.

[00:22.96]A later tradition developed,

[00:25.81]whereby gifts were given

[00:27.56]on each of the twelve days

[00:29.53]of Christmas, from December 25th,

[00:32.15]when Jesus allegedly was born,

[00:34.02]to January 6th , when Jesus

[00:37.18]was apparently 1 baptized(the Epiphany).

[00:39.16]There is a popular song

[00:42.43]called the “Twelve Days of Christmas”

[00:45.52]that keeps this tradition

[00:46.97]alive each year.

[00:50.14]We understand, that Macy’s Department Store

[00:52.66]in New York City introduced

[00:54.74]the annual Christmas or

[00:56.49]Santa Claus Parade during the 1880’s.

[00:59.44]Today, in late November,

[01:03.71]or early December, a Christmas Parade

[01:06.88]is held in almost every city

[01:09.18]and town in Europe and America.

[01:12.13]Early on the night

[01:15.19]before Christmas (Christmas Eve),

[01:16.73]children are encouraged to

[01:19.24]go to bed early

[01:20.89]if they expect Santa to come.

[01:23.07]They lay their heads

[01:24.93]on their pillows with visions

[01:26.90]of what the next day will bring.

[01:29.64]Santa is invisible to

[01:31.93]children since no one

[01:33.47]has actually seen him,

[01:34.89]his sleigh, or reindeer 2

[01:36.75]on Christmas Eve.

[01:39.16]On Christmas Day, families usually

[01:42.44]get together for a roast goose

[01:44.74]or turkey dinner served

[01:46.93]with mashed 3 potatoes, gravy 4,

[01:49.33]cranberry sauce, and pie

[01:51.30]or pudding for dessert.

[01:53.60]Grownups will pour a glass

[01:56.33]or two of wine or other spirits.

[01:58.52]Together, families will openly

[02:01.91]exchange gifts and gratitude 5.

[02:04.98]Children, including cousins, nieces

[02:08.04]and nephews, often kneel on the floor

[02:11.10]in front of the tree,

[02:12.96]excitedly trying to find presents

[02:14.93]with their names on them.

[02:17.34]On that day, warm receptions

[02:20.29]are extended to everyone,

[02:22.70]friend or stranger



1 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。
2 reindeer
n.驯鹿
  • The herd of reindeer was being trailed by a pack of wolves.那群驯鹿被一只狼群寻踪追赶上来。
  • The life of the Reindeer men was a frontier life.驯鹿时代人的生活是一种边区生活。
3 mashed
a.捣烂的
  • two scoops of mashed potato 两勺土豆泥
  • Just one scoop of mashed potato for me, please. 请给我盛一勺土豆泥。
4 gravy
n.肉汁;轻易得来的钱,外快
  • You have spilled gravy on the tablecloth.你把肉汁泼到台布上了。
  • The meat was swimming in gravy.肉泡在浓汁之中。
5 gratitude
adj.感激,感谢
  • I have expressed the depth of my gratitude to him.我向他表示了深切的谢意。
  • She could not help her tears of gratitude rolling down her face.她感激的泪珠禁不住沿着面颊流了下来。
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acidity
aerosol food
afghanistani
alloy irons
antibiolumphin
ashpan blower valve
automatic assembly
avi cable
bakeout degassing clamp
birchleaf pear
body-curved disease
bodywood
bottom relief map
Bozeman's position
bridge cloth
bullock blocks
bushing electric
call accepted signal
chondriomere
Cirbanal
close set
color constants
comebackers
commodity wastage
correptions
courier bag
Cunaxa
departmentation by process or equipment
electronic fire-control equipment
element name
encoded fields
end of astronomical evening twilight
engine pod
ensampling
epss network
featurism
ferret distemper virus
fiber-map
full electronic switching
gallucci
general-purpose diagnostic program
geographical north
geospatial engineering
glowfly
haberse
hardware stage
hexagonal mirror
hot penetration construction
Hudsonian godwit
Immobilon
interstitial distance (mather 1936)
investigation on audience
Krasnaya Polyana
layer-wound solenoid
leather loader
limestone neutralization treatment
maximal tubular excretory capacity
melanedema
natural rate of unemployment
nerr
non-coplanar transfer
norvasc
nosedives
OMR (optical mark reader)
optically positive
over bridges
partner with
Pashtunwali
patung series
paving stone degeneration of retina
permanent magnet moving coil meter
pivoted bucket carrier
plantar spaces
plunged into
prince fumimaro konoyes
prodan
psychoanalytical theory
Pterocles
pyrophoric lead
raw material of woodcharcaol
roller chamfer
schwab
Scythians
sequentially-lobed radar
signal smoke
signe de peau d'orange
slugft
So it goes
sp vol
spin space
Stackelberg decision theory
swansea
tandem electrostatic generator
terry swatch
the leaflets of the trifoliolate leaves
topochemical control
variable acceptance sampling
viscosity model
Warenford
weighing-appliance
zeomorphis