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
additional noise
anti-poliovirus serum
axis of vibration
beam approach beacon system (babs)
beforetime
biddikil
Black Obelisk
capstan shaft
carbol-fuchsin
chrissi
circumanal gland
closed shell
colasposoma auripenne
column with constant cross-section
comes over to
common bamboo
conjugate attenunation coefficient
cylinder head oil inlet
debt payment
degaussing facilities
depredation
deviation tolerances
electrode hole
endoesophagitis
epilimnile
faculty principle of taxation
family pyralididaes
feedback stabilisation
Fimbristylis autumnalis
flied
ganz
glance spar
glucogenolysis
growth promotant
harbour surveying
heavy metal pollution
homogamic
hyperbolic error function
I-steel pile
ice cream parlour
informed judgment
inner-orbital complex
instantaneous acoustic pressure
intraperiosteal fracture
Knowledge Graph
liquid-metal solution fuel
list language
m-words
maleos
mauritanias
mauvey
mclnnes
member class
naturally bonded sand
nbr steam flow
New Kru Town
non-disclosure agreement
offset days
oxycline
passionometer
perianal pruritus
phthalidylidene
polycentric chromosome
polychaete worms
Powell Basin
power plant thermal efficiency
pressure spring
primary distribution feeder
progress monitoring
protamine sulfate injection
put into mourning
radial agenesis
radio telegraph transmitter
regicides
resistivity meter
rigid dummy bar
rubbing seal
rufina
service tenancy
sexagesimalmeasure of an angle
shading constituent
sludge and thick liquid pump
soil hygrometry
soundings
source of mine air pollution
substitutional resistance
Sulcus parietooccipitalis
sun-bathe
systemic agenda
t-r tube
take ... advice
temp agency
the last of pea times
theory of foundations of mathematics
three-core flat cable
tophi syphiliticus
trophoblastic cancer
unified fine (unf) threaded bolt
visible lethal gene
Walton, Sir William Turner
wind rose map