时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之日常生活


英语课

 


Donating to a Thrift 1 Store 


Scott: That’s the last bag. Help me put these into the truck. I want to get these to the thrift store before they stop taking donations for the day. 


Nancy: Hold on! That bag has curtains in it. 


Scott: I know they do. Those old curtains have been sitting around in the closet for 10 years. It’s time to let them go. 


Nancy: But what about this bag? These are the children’s old baby clothes. You can’t just toss these! They have such sentimental 2 value. 


Scott: You’ve kept a lot of the children’s old clothes already, but we still have bags and bags of them in the attic 3


Nancy: Yes, but they’re so cute. 


Scott: It’s time to put aside sentiment and do some spring cleaning. After all, we’re donating them to a good cause. Families visiting the thrift store can buy them for their own children. We get a tax deduction 4 and our items get a new life. It’s a win-win for everybody. 


Nancy: I don’t know about that. What?! You’re not getting rid of those chairs, are you? They still have a lot of life in them. 


Scott: Our garage is so full of old furniture that we don’t use. I’m putting my foot down. These have to go. 


Nancy: But not those... 


Scott: Yes, those and those and those. This is my punishment for marrying a pack rat! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 thrift
adj.节约,节俭;n.节俭,节约
  • He has the virtues of thrift and hard work.他具备节俭和勤奋的美德。
  • His thrift and industry speak well for his future.他的节俭和勤勉预示着他美好的未来。
2 sentimental
adj.多愁善感的,感伤的
  • She's a sentimental woman who believes marriage comes by destiny.她是多愁善感的人,她相信姻缘命中注定。
  • We were deeply touched by the sentimental movie.我们深深被那感伤的电影所感动。
3 attic
n.顶楼,屋顶室
  • Leakiness in the roof caused a damp attic.屋漏使顶楼潮湿。
  • What's to be done with all this stuff in the attic?顶楼上的材料怎么处理?
4 deduction
n.减除,扣除,减除额;推论,推理,演绎
  • No deduction in pay is made for absence due to illness.因病请假不扣工资。
  • His deduction led him to the correct conclusion.他的推断使他得出正确的结论。
学英语单词
affies
agriculturally
ALCOMLANT
analytical function generator
anzad
Askyaran
barya
beneficial interest
black-diamond
bond by writing under seal
budbursts
cajoles
calcanes-metatarsal ligament
catch someone on the wrong foot
central committee
chevron packing
cleavage rate
collecting hairs
cooper-key
corner ghost
crank chain
cumulative coefficient
cyclohexitol
cyence
defeat switch
digital mini-cartridge
Dzūkšte
Elsholtzia bodinieri
ether fume
euler instability
ex post realized profit
examination system
face line of teeth
feed connecting link hinge stud
film stock
financial-reporting
fracture width
fresh information
genaponta
guadarramas
hairy chinch bug
hexoctahedrons
hopping conductivity
immunosome
indication of quality
individual program
internal turning tool
Juba
Kingston Springs
laury
leg up
lined paper
local people's congresses
magnesium base grease
maksim gorkies
marine museum
mature topography
mccrimmon
medium frequency electrodiagnosis
medium resolution
metric functions
molybdyl compound
NAREC
nation-buildings
Nemta
non-random distribution
novatian
number(ed) account
original gross premium income
outs-of-print
over frequency negative reserve
overdesigning
Pedicellinea
potato warts
presentially
pressure gradient drift
prodelphic
Puebla de Sancho Pérez
Ranunculus chinghoensis
rauriki
reaccumulating
renostyptin
role activation
Saburovshchino
saccolabium matsuran makino
safe spin
saturated solid solution
self sustaining fusion
she'll be apples
snowbank mockorange
standard magnetic compass
stethoscope transducer
sturion
system wait
Thames R.
the qingming festival
tin octoate
Troldhede
unwasted
Veronica longipetiolata
waist seam
zero reference point