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 coefficient system
Adiantum tenerum
agonizing
alcoholic pneumonia
analysis pass
apomagmatic hydrothermal mineral deposit
bawl about
biocomposite
black silicon carbide grain
blusterer
break area
broadshare
cadmus and hermione
calanthes
carrier jamming
clearing damp and promoting diuresis
coarse cloth
codem
concrete sprayer
connections between factory and shops
controlled parameter
Cyclopidae
cytotoxicenzyme
Denonvillier's ligament
do svidaniya
double humped curve
dryopteris fuscipes
e-mail bombs
ecoadventures
family Anabantidae
fingershaped gland
flat gliding turn
flood control by reservoir regulation
friction rolling hatch cover
functional signaling
galliford
have a level head
hazardous rating
hepatometry
honky tonk-like
impaler
ineffetive nodulation
Kamituga
kempthorne
kinetic energy in rotation
lasorda
last cycle
ligamenta auriculare anterius
LKMAB
Maebaru
mat-etching paste
methionine transadenosylase
misdetermine
movable frame
multi-scaler
mycosphaerella piperis
nanothermometer
negativity
nickel?cadium battery
off-routes
Orocillin
outpowered
phase-angle of a voltage transformer
Plaster brass
plasterer bee
preageing
procursive
proton dosimetry
pukras
quasi-molecular potential
rayleigh roughness criterion
revolving-field type
rousselet
S plane
sapajou
scalades
scoop it
screwed, blued and tattooed
Sinapis nigra
slurry packing technique
sound(frequency)spectrum
split pk.
sprenkle
steel furniture
sweep-ups
swetter
switches
symbol-worship
talliated
Tellejåkk
todpole
took a share in
trematode worms
Tumak
tv network
unsensibility
vibration roller
visual optical instrument
w.parker
Waagenophyllidae
wantrust
whole