时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

   我们之前一直说和老外聊天的时候有一个很禁忌很私人的问题,那就是你不能问老外“你赚多少钱?” 有人说美国农民都赚的比中国白领多;有人说美国经济垮啦每个人都欠了一屁股债。那美国人究竟转多少钱呢?今天潘吉Jenny告诉你!


  听力提示:
  1. misunderstanding 误解
  2. national average 国家平均值
  3. median income 中等收入
  4. median household income 中等家庭收入: around 40,000 maybe 43,000 dollars per year 大概一年四万到四万三美金
  5. rural 乡村的
  6. One important thing to remember is that New York City, and like California, especially San Francisco are very expensive. They are not average.
  要记住很重要的一点就是,纽约,以及加利福尼亚特别是旧金山是非常贵的城市。他们不是中等水平。
  7. exception 例外
  8. LA(Los Angeles) 洛杉矶
  9. full-time 1 job 全职工作: also around 40, 000 dollars per year 也是一年4万美金
  10. If your major is computer science, engineering, you probably have a higher salary. 如果你是计算机或工程专业的,你的薪水可能会高一些。
  And if your major is philosophy or music.... 不过如果你是学哲学或是音乐的....
  11. salary prospect 2 薪资前景
  12. Liberal Arts 文科
  13. Tax 税
  income tax 个人所得税
  state tax 州税
  federal tax 联邦税
  14. Florida! There's no state tax. 像佛罗里达州就没有州税。
  15. public education 公共教育
  16. Well, if you make more than 100,000, say you make six figures.
  如果你年薪超过十万美金,也就是赚到六位数。
  17. 100,000 is really upper-middle class. But if you make you know 200 thousand, 250 thousand, 300 thousand, then you could say that you're rich.
  年薪十万只能算中高层阶级。不过如果你赚个20万,25万,30万美金,你可以说你是有钱人。
  If you're in California, maybe not. Sorry. ;) 不过如果你在加州,这也不算有钱。不好意思啦。
  18. best-paying job 最高薪的职业
  19. Because in medicine, there are so many kinds of specialists. 因为在医疗界,有许多不同的专家。
  radiologist 放射科医生: $300,000-$500,000
  anaesthesiologist 麻醉师
  pediatrician 儿科医生
  20. Richest guys are:
  investment banker 投资银行家
  entrepreneur 企业家
  21. It's complicated. 太复杂了很难说清啊。

1 full-time
adj.满工作日的或工作周的,全时间的
  • A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
  • I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顾家庭又要全天工作,我不知道她是如何对付的。
2 prospect
n.前景,前途;景色,视野
  • This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
  • The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。
学英语单词
African lynx
air-vent needle
ample room
ansi standards
arctic mire
Ashcroft sodium process
autolithify
automatic exposure control device
autosynch
ballistic mortar
Binucleata
bridge cut off relay
bza
Caltagirone, Fiume
car vibration damper
cascalote
casting votes
ceress
character transliteration
close button
coast dredging
cogil
cold open
collaboration software
combination of automata
cooling theory
cosh pocket
cross purchase agreement
Damvillers
dendrobium affine steud.
diagonal conducting wall (dcw)generator
digital recorder signal generator
digitalanalogy
direction ratio
dop injection
DTGS detector
enruby
especfico
exception vector
family poeciliidaes
finger rafting
Georgiyevo
glossary of marine engineering
grammographus submaculatus
green light relay
greencard
haul cost
Helm aweather
hydrostatic equilibrium
impersonalize
incremental computer
Krukenberg spindle pigmentation
ligamentopexis
low orbit
luder's band
manned return vehicle reentry
mediastinal cellulitis
Mirsky-Pollister method
mote knife
mundicative
non contact type
occasionates
output phase shift
phonism
portfolio parameters
prefoliation
program structure in fund accounting
promotion systems
refreshment trolley service
RF ammeter
rheomode
Rimbo
round-robin comparison
rowest
ruinest
Santana do Ipanema
satellite mobile channel
sealing voltage
self driven ingot buggy
self-magnetic flux
self-stabilizing steering
shape recognition
ski suit
steam blast device
stoppage of publication
subland drill
sun-bronzed
sweep
syncolpate grain
take the fangs of
to-tight
transmitter ready
tremulousness
tricennal
TubeSat
twin-unit pack
underway bottom sampler
v'lu
warties
wsd
XPF
youth crusades