时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之日常生活


英语课

 


Getting Political Support


Helen: Okay, your schedule today is very busy. First, you’re meeting with a group of constituents 1 concerned about the environment. Then, you’re speaking to a group of factory workers. At noon, you’ll be having lunch with a group of high-power donors 2


Mikhail: When I signed on as a candidate, I had no idea I’d have to pander 3 to every group out there to gain their support. 


Helen: Don’t think of it as pandering 4. Think of it as rallying the troops. People in this state need a leader and you’re their great white hope. 


Mikhail: I decided 5 to run because I wanted to be a voice of reason in the partisan 6 bickering 7. I didn’t sign on to be a poster boy for my political party. 


Helen: You can make a difference when you get elected, but first things first: you need to get elected. Ready to go? 


Mikhail: What happened to the good old days when all you had to do was a little gerrymandering to get elected? 


Helen: I’m glad you brought that up. Your meeting with the committee on redistricting is this afternoon at 2:00. 


Mikhail: I’m sorry I asked! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 constituents
n.选民( constituent的名词复数 );成分;构成部分;要素
  • She has the full support of her constituents. 她得到本区选民的全力支持。
  • Hydrogen and oxygen are the constituents of water. 氢和氧是水的主要成分。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 donors
n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 );献血者;捐血者;器官捐献者
  • Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去,请给我们发电子邮件。
  • About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 pander
v.迎合;n.拉皮条者,勾引者;帮人做坏事的人
  • Don't pander to such people. 要迎合这样的人。
  • Those novels pander to people's liking for stories about crime.那些小说迎合读者对犯罪故事的爱好。
4 pandering
v.迎合(他人的低级趣味或淫欲)( pander的现在分词 );纵容某人;迁就某事物
  • This magazine is criticized for pandering to the vulgar taste of some readers. 这家杂志因迎合某些读者的低级趣味而遭到批评。 来自辞典例句
  • We're four points up there; we don't need to get hit for pandering. 我们在那儿领先四个百分点;我们不必为了迎合一些选民而遭受批评。 来自电影对白
5 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
6 partisan
adj.党派性的;游击队的;n.游击队员;党徒
  • In their anger they forget all the partisan quarrels.愤怒之中,他们忘掉一切党派之争。
  • The numerous newly created partisan detachments began working slowly towards that region.许多新建的游击队都开始慢慢地向那里移动。
7 bickering
v.争吵( bicker的现在分词 );口角;(水等)作潺潺声;闪烁
  • The children are always bickering about something or other. 孩子们有事没事总是在争吵。
  • The two children were always bickering with each other over small matters. 这两个孩子总是为些小事斗嘴。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
学英语单词
adjustable-rate bond
advance by overdraft
annual receipts arid outlays
antiphasing
appurtenances reactor
at a meeting
auger conveyer
average current pulse responses
azocompound
charter school
chorioadenoma
chromztoscope
clay figurine
close-cell foam
Conduct of Vessels in Restricted Visibility
cool heads
core spinning
counterchanging
crime against property
cross-over exhaust
culpas
cutcha
deck hatchway
description indicator
ego-boosting
encephaloid carcinoma
endoenzyme
exchange at par
Fat Analysis Committee colour
fermental
festina
Fourier modulus
genuine dementia
greentail prawn
hexynoic acid
hotols
hystorical
individual investors
informationize
international computer center
inuring
life mortgage
loading tables
look like hell
Lost Pleiad
magnetizing coil
medical dressings
medium-resolution infra-red radiometer (mrir)
milk punch
minor mine disaster
noriscorydine
numm
obey the law
one hundred and eighteen
open-source software
pars cricopharyngea musculi constrictoris pharyngis inferioris
patent regulation
peridentoclasia
plana pelvis
post stack migration
Primula secundiflora
productivity differential profit
public domains
pusia tuberosa
pyrops candelaria
radioactor
ratio of peak white-to-black level
real resource
reduced-sugar
relative cover
ring-barks
saddle-type turret lathe
Sarcina acidificans
Saxifraga caveana
segment dies
sex offenders
shetton
sillite
spirituated
spongy reticulum
stereographic net
stripper
submandibular abscess
sungate
supravalvular aortic stenosis syndrome
symbolic input language
T2VR
tab-ends
take along
tamarisk
the old leaven
third-brush regulation
Triosfaden
tunnel type air cooling freezer
underage children
vectoring error
vehicle pontoon
viriola fallax
viscose cord fabric
wesselton
zulkifar