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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absolute tangential velocity
absorbing spectacle glass
actrapid HM ampoule
Aelurostrongylus
aerobryidium filamentosum
al awdah (awdah)
alpha source
anomalous weather
As the saying goes
blinkies
Budū', Sabkhat al
calcographers
capitals of botswana
check row planter
chondropathia
colbertan
contour strip intercropping
course deviation indicator
crackstress
cut of lamb
cyperol
data system design and research group
deformed set
direct-detection receiver
division of business
doughnut coil
Elsner's asthma
equipment control switch
filler acceptance
finance and management
forced power transmission
gang rapes
giltest
ginks
global reach
goose clubs
HagueVisby Rules-
heliopses
hot oiling truck
hot rolled finish
i will be there
individual dosimeter
influencing variable
interleaved memory system
interlock bypass
lattice trail
loading man-hole
manetite
many-chambered
micrometer thimble
miogeoclines
ModelPenal Code
musculi digastricus
Naoroji, Dadabhai
nasal mutation
nierembergias
nols
nonpesticide
NPO-body
nsanje
office-supply
once-bucolic
palillogies
panayotis
panel vans
partition balancing
penetration area
pipe-insert with rainer
playster
prosector's wart
raw data base
Re-evaluation of fixed assets
re-jigs
remote-controlled toys
reservoir yield
risd
roadmakings
roof expansion joint cover
rush transport
Sabalpollenites
safe working temperature
seafloor scour
segmental pleural area
self sealing door
Shemagē
Shilin District
shirker
shovel-hoisting engine
skeleton in the cupboard
statistician-general
tahtawi
tech-link
to be of benefit
tomato test
tribe bubaluss
tunnel freezer
unhorrified
varicella pustulosa
video laryngoscopes
water-cooled welding torch
work of art
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