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 lick of the tar-brush
agricultural surplus
ambitionlessness
anaglyptic, anaglyptical
anginal scarlet fever
antifermions
babyishness
backsword(s)men
bearherds
binarycondition
bus-stop
calculated field
Calcutta Cup
cheer sb on
chimerize
citta della pieve
clawlikest
close hydrant
Crick strand
cross talk amplitude
dead band
detailed theory
direct-injection moulding
disiccation
Dodori
drivings
duck for the oyster
dynamic poise
electronlike
fine wire welding
fortuned
franaise
gauge fixing
granular sphere
graveries
Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge
gvo
hokkus
Holyoake
Impatiens guizhouensis
inclined drop
ingot butt
internal combustion piston engine
ischial tuberosity
jet weaving machine
kinlochhourns
Koes
Kuttainen
LF loran
lh2
line access point
linear expression
locuss
long-tailed macaque
mammal family
mechanism of machinery
mobile phone number
molecularly
monoethenoid
muharrem
nonlinear dynamic circuits
oralisations
Orinocan
Pantar, Pulau
parabranchial gill cavity
parity odd
path of plume
ploughed fallow
PLZT ceramics
Q0C2
real time addressing
reel speed ratio
reference current metre
regional gravity field
rejection number
replacement density
reusing water pool (RWP)
run one's eye over
scalpretractor
school-times
scullcap
seed sorting by salt water
Seynes
single pole head
spherics
stable dung
stated case
stratified bed
structure flowcharts
teal duck
terrestrial parallel
the exotic
throw rugs
thymophogen
travel rate
utterback
valve clearance adjustment
ventilation with top-and-bottom spaced entries
volume of excavation
withspoke
xaliproden
xeronosus