时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:原版英语对话1000个


英语课

Anja: So, Fred, tell me, how is it on Christmas? Who do you give gifts to in Canada?


Fred: Well, Anja, personally 1 I prefer to receive gifts. That's always funner. Yeah, well, of course, we give gifts and we receive gifts.


Anja: Oh, yeah. So the gifts, how are they? Are they really expensive or...?


Fred: Good question. Well, I don't know. It depends on who you're giving the gift to, and it also depends on, you know, how many gifts you have to buy.


Anja: Oh, so, who exactly are you buying gifts for? Only the really.... people that are really close to you?


Fred: Well, yes, I would say that in my case I have a large family.


Anja: How many are you?


Fred: We are six siblings 2: six brothers and sisters and plus my parents and both my grandparents are still alive, and aunts and cousins and so a very big family, and so what we do is we exchange gifts. So we buy a small gift, 45 dollars, and then we play a small game where we exchange that gift amongst 3 each other, so we don't have to buy gifts to everybody.


Anja: Oh, that's quite nice, so it won't get too expensive, right?


Fred: It won't but, personally, I like to buy gifts for my mother or my father and especially my grandmother and grandfather. It's very important, and so I enjoy doing the shopping for it.


Anja: Oh, you do like shopping?


Fred: For Christmas it's something different.


Anja: It's really difficult on Christmas, right? Usually, the shops are really packed and there's so many people. It's really stressful 5, isn't it?


Fred: Yeah, but I like that stress 4.


Anja: Oh, you do?


Fred: Yeah, I love it.


Anja: Oh, wow. I think you are the only one.

 



1 personally
adv.亲自,直接,个人,就我个人来说
  • I handed the book to him personally.书是我亲自交给他的。
  • Personally,I prefer fall weather.我个人比较喜欢秋天的天气。
2 siblings
n.兄弟,姐妹( sibling的名词复数 )
  • A triplet sleeps amongst its two siblings. 一个三胞胎睡在其两个同胞之间。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She has no way of tracking the donor or her half-siblings down. 她没办法找到那个捐精者或她的兄弟姐妹。 来自时文部分
3 amongst
prep.在…之中,在...之间(=among)
  • He was sitting amongst a group of children,telling them a story.他正坐在一群孩子中间讲故事。
  • You must settle the matter amongst yourselves.你们必须彼此商量,自行解决这些问题。
4 stress
n.压力,紧迫,强调,重音,重点,应力&vt.加压力于,着重,重读
  • The roof couldn't bear the stress of the snow.屋顶受不了积雪的压力。
  • My parents lay great stress on honesty.我的父母十分注重诚实。
5 stressful
adj.紧张的,压力重的
  • My job isn't stressful,and I enjoy the work.我的工作没有压力,我很喜欢这份工作。
  • It usually just makes situations more stressful.它通常会使情况更加紧迫。
学英语单词
A lion at home, a mouse abroad.
active crossover
affirmation and negation
bacterial pyrogen
barberton daisies
barometric fuel control
bihariss
botchan
bracket height
bunched flame retardant cable
buridan
burning process
capital-asset-pricing model
chemisorbed carbon monxide
chicken-heart
Ciacova
confirmation of receipt of merchandise
congruence triangles
cylinder bore gauge
Danegelds
deka-kelvin
development test and evaluation
differentiated service
direct-current power supply
dispatch half demurrage
doniol-valcroze
downcomer seal
dunnione
elements
enclosed switch
Erritsφ
Excelsior cotton
extent in aid
fiftyfifty
firing brick
folio post
Fonds Monetaire International
fully-standardized high level language
fused alumina
gandolfoes
glycol monomethyl ether
gold master
gross weight range
half-sinusoid
hard-drivest
Hartia gracilis
hash rate
haslar
have ideas into one's head
Heïrane
hot junction
HRC fuse
hypocitruria
hypoelliptic operator
ifcs
immersed water test
inlet orifice
isser
kanonenjagdpanzer
king oranges
levasseurs
liko
lipoxidase
logical core
mastocalciphylaxis
me-what
milk-whites
mobile-telephony
neltenexine
Neyriz
object program code
obolize
original goods
ormolus
pentahedroid
racetrack memory
radio-teletype writer
real party
retinerved
sandtrap
single group link
Siparia
soil humidity monitor
somnambulantly
speaker cover
spinneret holder
sting
subpetiolar
suessmuth
supper hour
telemetering link
test animals
threshold wavelength
tolerizes
tro-tro
tywlle
underslung inlet
unmader
unscoured grain
vague shape
violent shock
water vapor welding