时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(七)月


英语课

   If you haven't already pickd up on the trend from all the whining 1 on Bravo's Princesses Long Island, marriage rates in America are at an all-time low. And the medium age at which women do say 'I do'is now 27, the highest it's been in the century. That's according to a new report by Bowling 2 Green State University's Julissa Crupz, published by the national center for family and marriage research. In the 1920s, 92 women walked down the aisle 3 each year per thousand of single women of marrying age. Today, it's a third that. Marriage rates were expected to plateau in the wake of the baby boom. But so far, they just keeping dropping. Apparently 4, many college educated women are simply putting off getting hitched 5. And many black women might be foregoing it altogether. Because while every enthic group has seen a drop in the proportion of married women since the 50s, it's dipped lowest for black women, just 26% of whom are married. In the UK and most of Europe, the average age for women tying the knot is already more than 30. And if Long Island's reality stars are an indicator 6, we're soon to follow.



1 whining
n.保龄球运动
  • Bowling is a popular sport with young and old.保龄球是老少都爱的运动。
  • Which sport do you 1ike most,golf or bowling?你最喜欢什么运动,高尔夫还是保龄球?
2 aisle
n.(教堂、教室、戏院等里的)过道,通道
  • The aisle was crammed with people.过道上挤满了人。
  • The girl ushered me along the aisle to my seat.引座小姐带领我沿着通道到我的座位上去。
3 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。
4 hitched
(免费)搭乘他人之车( hitch的过去式和过去分词 ); 搭便车; 攀上; 跃上
  • They hitched a ride in a truck. 他们搭乘了一辆路过的货车。
  • We hitched a ride in a truck yesterday. 我们昨天顺便搭乘了一辆卡车。
5 indicator
n.指标;指示物,指示者;指示器
  • Gold prices are often seen as an indicator of inflation.黃金价格常常被看作是通货膨胀的指标。
  • His left-hand indicator is flashing.他左手边的转向灯正在闪亮。
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analog supply voltage
Android watch
arteriae palpebrales mediales
Ashow
ballot papers null and void
base-one peak voltage
be in two minds
big-game hunter
blockade mine
buzz track test film
Change message to be read
chronometer watch
cisconfiguration
co-signatories
cobalt(ii) propionate
codoxime
collapsing strength
collector cup
conditioning zone
corbito
countable additivity
crushed granite
decipiency
dermata
Des Moines County
Dichocarpum sutchuenense
dolphin striker
duplicated control
dust coats
eschewers
ethnoichthyological
eurocom
exinitedurite
flight path deviation indicator
floating device
four-of-a-kind
gas liquid partition coefficient
generic route encapsulation
gik
ground-water dating
Gīrān
Hadfield
hitting gun range
house fly
hypertrophy of sebaceous gland
indiscernibility
injurious forest-insect
instyle
irinas
Jovinianists
Konstantina, Zaliv
Kubongsan
lateropharyngeal space
Lin'an
Linthipe
macrostatistics
medical pluralism
microprogram loop(ing)
missile flight simulator
Morax-Axenfeld's conjunctivitis
multiple-core casting
nondiegetic
oil of levant wormseed
one-lunger
order Secotiales
passenger seats
pectinibranch
polyethylimine
post and telecommunications office
praiseach
price escalation
Primula jaffreyana
proof of conviction
Protium guianense
pump classification
Rhipicephalus
romanticist
ross dependency
ruthenium carbonyl
Sarah, Mt.
Saravia
sea pikes
seeders
self-hypnosis
single line
soccer-kits
soft pad
specified representation
storage-ring
substituendum
super coiled DNA
suppresser
surface acoustic wave signal processing
T-80 tank
tapered reel
tartarum
the Dark Ages
throw away share
throw impediments in the way
ultrasonic precipitation
unrelentingly
zambra