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。
学英语单词
access specification
act of contrition
allochetite
alpine choughs
aryl-4-hydroxylase
ayub
bacillary emulsion
beautitude
bed configuration
bowl with carved designs
budoff
cableway transport
cainca
calculated according to current wholesale price
canalized
castellani's absorption test
casting strains(or stresses)
Catholican
chaolite
Come off the grass!
compiler optimization
current-zero
Diclofibrate
earnings yield ratio
epicentres
epigenetic geochemical anomaly
equivalent normal incidence frequency
exact distribution
fat edges
flock out of
flow process of authority and responsibility
flush-cut joint
fully-developed
gall capillary
glaucomatous
glumping
hang
Holmes scale
horizontal screw-agitated feed reduction
howard method
hylocomium splendens
Illyrians
intercess
interdependence among commodities
irremeable
isochromic anemia
jet electrification
Jonctum
key card verifier
larvikite akerite
load change
load characteristic curve
long-distance bus
maalox
magnetic drag
manufacturing price
Market Exposure
mellier
Mesomyodi
mohairs
muriatic acid
nairoviruses
non-sovereign act
obligation of tax
oceanographical
of anything
oral prophylaxis
phase sensitive modulator
Pindi Rāmpur
postrel
pour inhibitor
pranksterish
prognosticks
real culture pattern
remote control dial unit
request for production of documents
Ribes giraldii
rowhomes
sage and pineapple sage
santa clauses
satam
self-contented
slink ink
smudgiest
soel
somatotherapist
stagger cycle
super-8-movie
supersense
sweep second
synchro generator
tautness
telephonograph
teraacious plaques
time encoding
torpedo rack
tractor drawbar pull
unlabelled antigen
uran-ochre
waveguide film bolometer
whiteite- (cafemg)
Yanahuanca, Cerro