时间:2018-11-27 作者:英语课 分类:赖世雄中级美国英语


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10. What Are Friends For?


Jane meets her old friend, Fred.

J: Hi, Fred! How's everything?

F: Not so good, I'm afraid. Supporting a family is becoming more and more difficult these days.

J: What you say can't be more true. Everything is so expensive. I can hardly make ends meet myself.

F: Oh, really? Do you need any money? What I have is not much, but I can loan you some.

J: I'm OK. Thanks for being so thoughtful anyway.

F: What are friends for?


flatter 奉承   flattery

meet with trouble 遇到麻烦   meet sb

The chairman presided over the meeting.

meet you halfway 1 折衷

Let's compromise 妥协  to reach a compromise

招呼语 greeting:

How are you?

How have you been?

How are you getting along?

How is everything?

polite behavior

Peter is afraid/scared/frightened of snakes.

cockroach(es)  蟑螂

support a family 养家   back you up 支持

I couldn't care less. 不在乎

hardly = almost not

Today many city couples both have to work, or they can't make ends meet. 收支平衡

We are in need of more parks in our city. =  We need more....

stingy 小气的

get by 说的过去,混过



1 halfway
adj.中途的,不彻底的,部分的;adv.半路地,在中途,在半途
  • We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路,天就黑了。
  • In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上,最忌讳的是有始无终。
学英语单词
above-quota purchase
alicyclic acid
amphoriscid
Araqua
artemia salinas
autesiodorum (auxerre)
authigenesis
base of neck
bottom ramming machine
burhinidaes
coarse braking
compressed air installation
context-independent
cuellar
cyberbanks
Cypridea
decision logic translator
deion extinction of arc
depreciation rate of tooling
desose
distance liner
Donzenac
dual detector
duck mold packing
eccentric type pickup
equilibrate
Eschscholtzia californica
event-by-event
exponential subroutine
export labo(u)r power
extenders
fog-navigation
geared brake motor
gebhart
genus lutras
health-consciousness
hercostomus lunlatus
heterogenous graft
Hindostan
holding braking effort
horsecrap
Hutchinson's patch
inhearing
insert film
insurance share
Kidd blood group system
Kodoris K'edi
kuvasz
lakon kabach boran (cambodia)
latent load
leaned
left divisor
liberalizers
licea kleistobolus
lot by lot
Malolo
man-millinery
mannoheptitol
master file table
mazelyn
mine accident
molybdenic acid
nanpa
nature strips
nnfa
objectives of financial statement
Ohiwa Harb.
operator trunk
Origanum dictamnus
paleoepibiotic endemism
peripheral arteriosclerosis
perosplanchnia
planchering
point softening
Pomadasyidae
poor-spirited
reference wedge
self feeding carburetor
shorthandedly
single ported slide valve
Skebobruk
soft margarine
soil metabolism
sound intermediate frequency
spillage oil
Spinacia oleracea Mill.
steel-bar header
stern ornament
stratifiable
surface recombination admittance
Surinsk
telegraaf
threepeater
tisdell
Tombila, Gunung
Trichosanthes quinquangulata
troched
v-shaped antenna
vestibular nuclei
whose'n
wolfhounds
work space layout