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]I looked for clues to

[00:02.61]determine how striking the changes

[00:04.46]in my daily life would be.

[00:06.87] How would I spend my time?

[00:09.61] In spite of having

[00:11.58] many long yearly vacations

[00:13.88]when I could pursue other interests,

[00:16.07]I had not bothered to

[00:18.14]make an earnest effort

[00:20.00]to confine my activities

[00:21.64]to one particular hobby. 

[00:23.28]Would I find life

[00:26.02]as a retiree boring? What new

[00:28.97]adventures might await me?

[00:31.27]Would I use my time to

[00:33.57]volunteer at a hospital or maybe

[00:35.65]work for a local charity?

[00:37.11]Maybe I would apply for

[00:41.27]membership in a golf league.

[00:42.58]Maybe I would donate

[00:44.99]my time and work with

[00:46.52]the Better Business Bureau.

[00:48.60]I might decide to

[00:50.79]enter local politics and

[00:52.65]run for a position

[00:54.50]on town council or I

[00:55.93] could run for the position

[00:58.12] of Deputy Mayor of my town,

[00:59.87]or maybe even consider submitting

[01:02.28] my name to be a candidate

[01:04.79]in an election for

[01:06.10] member of parliament.

[01:08.07]I would need to campaign

[01:10.04]and then wait to see

[01:11.68]if people would vote for me

[01:13.32]on election day at the polls.

[01:16.06]In spite of the fact that

[01:18.80]the possibilities all had merit,

[01:21.31] I had to admit that

[01:23.06]I only had a superficial interest

[01:25.14]in pursuing any of them.

[01:27.11]In fact, I was indifferent

[01:30.17]to most of the options.

[01:32.14]Did I think they might

[01:35.20]interfere with other commitments

[01:37.50] or mean I would have

[01:38.60]to cancel other appointments?

[01:40.35]Or was I just too attached

[01:42.97]to the idea of teaching,

[01:44.73]feeling that it formed

[01:46.80]part of my identity?

[01:48.88]I examined my emotions

[01:51.61]about the new direction

[01:53.37]my life would take.

[01:54.79]Would retirement 1 add a new dimension

[01:57.74]to my life and multiply my feelings

[01:59.27] of satisfaction or would

[02:02.99]the world apprehension 2 be more applicable?

[02:06.49]Did I feel guilty about

[02:09.12]not being gainfully employed

[02:11.31] when I was qualified 3 and capable?

[02:13.17] As a certified 4 teacher,

[02:15.68]did I feel obligated to work

[02:18.20]in the field of education?

[02:20.28]Did I feel entitled to

[02:23.24]sleep in late each day,

[02:25.21]or would that bother my conscience?

[02:27.39]Would I simply grow old gracefully 5

[02:29.91]or would feel that ridiculous?

[02:33.08]My instincts told me that

[02:36.58]although I would feel grateful

[02:38.00]for my good health,

[02:39.86]curiosity about other countries

[02:41.73]and lifestyles would overtake

[02:43.69]the desire to spend

[02:45.34] my time with senior citizens,

[02:47.19]playing board games,

[02:48.62]such as chess all day.

[02:50.25]Wouldn’t I rather learn about

[02:53.43]other cultures and at the same time

[02:55.51]be an ambassador for my own country



1 retirement
n.退休,退职
  • She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
  • I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。
2 apprehension
n.理解,领悟;逮捕,拘捕;忧虑
  • There were still areas of doubt and her apprehension grew.有些地方仍然存疑,于是她越来越担心。
  • She is a girl of weak apprehension.她是一个理解力很差的女孩。
3 qualified
adj.合格的,有资格的,胜任的,有限制的
  • He is qualified as a complete man of letters.他有资格当真正的文学家。
  • We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.我们必须看到我们还缺乏有资质的专家。
4 certified
a.经证明合格的;具有证明文件的
  • Doctors certified him as insane. 医生证明他精神失常。
  • The planes were certified airworthy. 飞机被证明适于航行。
5 gracefully
ad.大大方方地;优美地
  • She sank gracefully down onto a cushion at his feet. 她优雅地坐到他脚旁的垫子上。
  • The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line. 新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。
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Abderhalden's dialysis
Achkoute
actual strength unit
air monitering
air operated grab
apdi
axils
behavio(u)r assumption
binary qualitative response model
body centered tetragonal lattice
call-girls
catch control
celestial photometry
chalk something up to experience
cicatricial phase
concept-mapping
conern
crwa
Dialastic
dispaces
double stochastic Poisson process
down faulted block
electron emission constant
eutectic brazing alloy
faculty of judgement
flann
flu vaccine
flys
forgetting error
forwitting
full equilibrium
gathering auger
generic resources
genetically-modified
genus carnegieas
Great Danes
gridded data
hard-ball model
harvest method
history of forestry
illocutive
iminoglycinurias
impregnation layer
in the position of
Independent Fundamental Churches of America
inforpress
kilogram per square centimeter
lamellar grating interferometer
liuyi powder
logical input/output
lunar noon
Markham, Edwin
mdesks
meningoencephlocele
microdensitometers
more than you know
mould-board
multisymplectic
nebuchandnezzar
non-travel
number-four
oaks
olamine
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orthoepist
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outbreathed
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packaway
palpably
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printing-offices
Prinzmetal's angina
probability matrix
propsin
pseudo-arc
regular isotopic
relif
resistance index
Rylstone
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society
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stellated
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talaminis
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trash bund
treatment with high temperature
Tussolkon
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vendor neutral
wandjinas
wetted cross-section
wing nuts
WT1
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