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
a lowering of temperature below the freezing point
aerosolizer
afferent artery of glomerulus
Ammelhede
Amor asteroids
Antofagasta
Aparhant
aurignacians
bergson-samuelson welfare function
bernacles
Bingird
binodal solubility curve
boynes
buchloh
bus coupling
Cabred
candidate image
cardiaca incisura
categories of countryside taxes
centre weight
chance-mets
charactron gun
Chinese lexicography
chompy
clamp bias potential
class clowns
cytheropteron peiminga
depilitant
diproqualone
disempowerment
economic-affairs
eddy-milled particle
enjoy oneself
equivalent roughness coefficient
error in indication
essential number
Fagamalo
figure tie
group discount
growth period
guess at sth
hand reaming
handling grab
hnv
igneous structure
in a broad sense
infrared ray dryer
jadass brandy
japanning works
jiggle bar
liberas
lobianco
lupolds
magnetic hysteresis loop
management prerogative
minor repair frequency
Molitg-les-Bains
myokinine
net energy for production
non-ischemic
obligation insurance
Ochotonidae
off cycle defrosting
offset stream
paraeuchaeta barbata
paramartyria bimaculella
phase inverter circuit
phymatosorus scolopendria
Picris similis
plane of pelvic outlet
primer for rusted steel
quadrotors
radioallergosorbent test
re-engaged
regularly caving zone
resonant-chamber switch
right part of rule
rubber-covered double braided
sawhorse
scalesman
sepiola
skew distortion
specimen holder
startrackers
stout
summer freeboard
suprasymphysary
synthetic sedative
syntonic
technology
three engined
to grasp the nettle
tremoid
typical plane
universal algebraic family
Vaccinium laetum
validest
viscosity monitor
vitrosols
why'm
xenon spatial oscillation
Y. B.