时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:英语角-圆桌会议


英语课

 Topic 1-Migrant worker wins readers' hearts with her article


 
An article written by a migrant worker called Fan Yusu about her family life has gone viral on Chinese social media.
 
Internet users are stunned 1 and impressed by the amount of literary talent displayed by a migrant worker. How can an ordinary migrant worker without much education write so well? Do you get a sense of arrogance 2 here?
 
Topic 2-Telemarketing scams in China
 
According to the Ministry 3 of Public Security (MPS), China solved about 83,000 telecom fraud cases in 2016.
 
It has become a daily ritual for some of us to receive a barrage 4 of unsolicited calls, some of which are nuisance calls from property agents or telemarketing sales people for financial institutions. But many calls are of a sinister 5 nature, offering unsecured loans or fake invoices 6 as bait. Some callers even impersonate law enforcement officers or government officials.
 
Topic 3-Student Creates Hilarious 7 PowerPoint to Ask Crush On a Date
 
Love will make people do crazy things—but who would have known those things could also be so professional?
 
A student at the University of Minnesota has gone viral for creating a detailed 8 PowerPoint presentation to convince her crush to date her. Lizzy Fenton—who must have picked up some skills while studying genetics, cell biology, and development—took to Twitter to share the six-slide argument she prepared for her crush Carter. 

1 stunned
n.傲慢,自大
  • His arrogance comes out in every speech he makes.他每次讲话都表现得骄傲自大。
  • Arrogance arrested his progress.骄傲阻碍了他的进步。
2 ministry
n.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
3 barrage
n.火力网,弹幕
  • The attack jumped off under cover of a barrage.进攻在炮火的掩护下开始了。
  • The fierce artillery barrage destroyed the most part of the city in a few minutes.猛烈的炮火几分钟内便毁灭了这座城市的大部分地区。
4 sinister
adj.不吉利的,凶恶的,左边的
  • There is something sinister at the back of that series of crimes.在这一系列罪行背后有险恶的阴谋。
  • Their proposals are all worthless and designed out of sinister motives.他们的建议不仅一钱不值,而且包藏祸心。
5 invoices
发票( invoice的名词复数 ); (发货或服务)费用清单; 清单上货物的装运; 货物的托运
  • Take the example of a purchasing clerk keying invoices into a system. 继续说录入员输入发票的例子,这个录入员是一个全职的数据输入人员。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
  • Consular invoices are declarations made at the consulate of the importing country. 领事发票是进口国领事馆签发的一种申报书。
6 hilarious
adj.充满笑声的,欢闹的;[反]depressed
  • The party got quite hilarious after they brought more wine.在他们又拿来更多的酒之后,派对变得更加热闹起来。
  • We stop laughing because the show was so hilarious.我们笑个不停,因为那个节目太搞笑了。
7 detailed
adj.详细的,详尽的,极注意细节的,完全的
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。
学英语单词
adamant metal
adultier
advertising departments
after-school program
alkaline glaze
Alsterbro
american society of medical technology
annointing
armature air gap
Aschheim-Zondek reaction
avenue of infection
barberry families
bayrumtree
boiler storage
brenson
cathartid
Cauto, R.
choreutis ophiosema
closed cycle cryogenic refrigerator
Coachella
color of the trichomes
combined steam and gas turbine (cosag) machinery
critical-load
cyclical graded bedding
dagobert
dahm
deed-box
direct drive electric tool
disrupted seam
et alia
excision of osteochondroma
Existing Home Sales
first-order bench mark
freighthopping
full to
furfural resin adhesive
fusser
gait analysis system
heir by devise
hemichorea
hepatic cyst
hexosephosphoricesters
infra red (ir)
JDL,JDL
knuckle-bone
kprofilograph
kyphorachitic pelvis
letter transfer
lighter-aboard-ship
lottia tenuisculpta
lyricist
marry into money
merrigan
microtropis triflora merr. et freem.
mind boggler
nanophanerophyte
nasal tip profile
naval beach group
negatived
Nicholson, Jack
number of repetitions
of great eminence
oh my fuck
one generation household
Parima, R.
pellizzari
professional golves
punctura
push type slab kiln
putting together
pyramid (of) selling
pyridine disulfonic acid
rastello
Rathmullan
reverting value
Richardson extrapolation
semisimple associative algebra
service port
sewer-pipe
spectromicroscopical
steam drive
Stilwell Road
subgeniculate
subsurface stacking chart
sucked in
suckerfishes
sunninghill
surface manoeuvring
tactile meniscus
term appointment
Tioor, Pulau
triturating
tut work
ultra-rapid high pressure gauge
underwater kit
unpronouncable
uranium isopropoxide
weather lurch
window screens
wolveboon
wriggled
wristers