听美文故事记6级单词01-08
时间：2018-11-30 作者：英语课 分类：听美文故事记6级单词
Do French Women Make Best Mothers and Lovers?
French women lead Europe as mothers, workers and in health and sex appeal, say some of the country's leading sociologists.
Academic research has lent a little support to President Jacques Chirac's Bastille Day insistence 1 that France should not envy Britain, despite recent jolts 2 to national pride: desperately 3 high unemployment, plummeting 4 spending power and London's victory over Paris to hold the 2012 Olympics.
Ahead of a seminar on European population trends in Tours this week, sociologists and statisticians have come up with a series of figures that prompted the daily paper Libération to headline a report yesterday: "The French woman: at work, seductive and fertile."
The paper described French females as "champions of Europe" for producing babies and longevity 6. Official figures put them on a par 5 with the Irish in terms of fertility, with 1.9 children born to each woman, compared with 1.7 in Britain or 1.4 in America.
On life expectation, French women are said to vie with the Spanish, reaching an average age of nearly 84.
Commentators 7 and experts anxious for something good to say about the "French model" - shorter working hours, entrenched 8 labour rights and a social security system that critics say France cannot afford - speculate that it has much to do with the supposed supremacy 9 of womanhood.
Aids to an emancipated 10 womanhood include France's municipal crèches, supervised homework sessions, subsidised holiday camps for children and generous family allowances.
Even the much-derided 35-hour working week plays its part, theoretically giving working mothers more time to spend with their children without losing out at work.
- They were united in their insistence that she should go to college.他们一致坚持她应上大学。
- His insistence upon strict obedience is correct.他坚持绝对服从是对的。
- He found that out when he got a few terrific jolts, but he wouldn't give up. 被狠狠地撞回来几次后，他发觉了这一点，但他决不因此罢休。
- Some power bars are loaded with carbohydrates or caffeine for quick jolts. 有些能量条中包含大量的碳水化合物和咖啡因，以达到快速提神的效果。
- He was desperately seeking a way to see her again.他正拼命想办法再见她一面。
- He longed desperately to be back at home.他非常渴望回家。
- Prices are rising, falling, going up, going down, shooting up, plummeting, etc. 物价在上涨、下跌、上升、下落、猛然上涨、骤然下跌等。 来自辞典例句
- The enemy plane went plummeting into the sea. 敌机直直掉进海里。 来自辞典例句
- Sales of nylon have been below par in recent years.近年来尼龙织品的销售额一直不及以往。
- I don't think his ability is on a par with yours.我认为他的能力不能与你的能力相媲美。
- Good habits promote longevity.良好的习惯能增长寿命。
- Human longevity runs in families.人类的长寿具有家族遗传性。
- Sports commentators repeat the same phrases ad nauseam. 体育解说员翻来覆去说着同样的词语，真叫人腻烦。
- Television sports commentators repeat the same phrases ad nauseam. 电视体育解说员说来说去就是那么几句话，令人厌烦。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Television seems to be firmly entrenched as the number one medium for national advertising.电视看来要在全国广告媒介中牢固地占据头等位置。
- If the enemy dares to attack us in these entrenched positions,we will make short work of them.如果敌人胆敢进攻我们固守的阵地，我们就消灭他们。
- No one could challenge her supremacy in gymnastics.她是最优秀的体操运动员，无人能胜过她。
- Theoretically,she holds supremacy as the head of the state.从理论上说，她作为国家的最高元首拥有至高无上的权力。
- Slaves were not emancipated until 1863 in the United States. 美国奴隶直到1863年才获得自由。
- Women are still struggling to be fully emancipated. 妇女仍在为彻底解放而斗争。 来自《简明英汉词典》