时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:英语时差8,16


英语课

to REACH for the SKY (or STARS) Logically 1, we all know that the sky above us contains some clouds, miles of atmosphere, and endless empty space above that. No matter how tall we are, no matter how high we can reach, we can never reach or touch the sky or stars. So knowing that, why would anyone want to reach for the sky or stars? It seems like an impossible endeavor 2. Yet, that is exactly the point: We need an idiom to explain how, although we know our dreams may seem impossible to reach, we still want to try anyway. It is like being a contestant 3 in a national singing contest. The odds 4 against winning 5 are very large, but everyone who tries believes he might win, and one actually will win. All of them, however, can enjoy the experience of reaching for the sky, even if most of them fail.



1 logically
ad.符合逻辑地,逻辑上
  • There is no logically compelling argument to support their claims. 没有任何逻辑上有说服力的论据来支持他们的主张。
  • The total amount can be deduced logically from the figures available. 总量可以从现有的数字中按照逻辑推断出来。
2 endeavor
vt./n.努力,尽力,尝试
  • Thereupon,we knew,our endeavor was valuable.于是,我们知道,我们的努力是有价值的。
  • We endeavor to make our customers satisfied.我们力图使顾客都满意。
3 contestant
n.竞争者,参加竞赛者
  • The company will furnish each contestant with a free ticket.公司将为每个参赛者免费提供一张票。
  • The personal appearance and interview of the contestant is another count.参加比赛者的个人仪表和谈话也是一项。
4 odds
n.让步,机率,可能性,比率;胜败优劣之别
  • The odds are 5 to 1 that she will win.她获胜的机会是五比一。
  • Do you know the odds of winning the lottery once?你知道赢得一次彩票的几率多大吗?
5 winning
adj.获胜的,胜利的;吸引人的,有说服力的
  • Team A has no chance of winning.A队没有获胜的可能。
  • They have great hopes of winning.他们获胜的希望极大。
学英语单词
amalgamate
ambiguity range
Anglo-Saxon
anisosepalous
anonymization
anti-evolution
ascobolus lignatilis
ATST
audio visual communication
Augustanism
Badgaon
birth-control campaigners
bishop sleeve
brockton
by train
Cadbury Schweppes
carbon bronze
cardiaca incisura
celiacs
clerk in holy orders
code for Chinese word and phrase
conditioned and unconditioned reflex
culture media
dillusion
disk volume
dupeas
dynamic stability test
electron bombardment engine
embryonic dune
eonothems
Ermak
Erythraea Neck
ethno-regionalism
face on
fadeometer
fern-leaf crystallization
filling pressure
firmware limitation
fishing capacity
fixed belay
frondoso
galts
gastroptychia gabata
germbudine
greenster
guilt of instigation to crime
hexagon bar
horoshi
house duty
inertial navigation/attack system (inas)
Inland State
is nowhere to be found
j. m. synges
landing depth
les mains
linear phenomena
link routine test equipment
low-frequency rebroadcasting
MOMPHIDAE
move across
multi-item model
newsbeat
nodosal ganglion
nongovernmental organizations (ngos)
nonroasted
nonswappable program
off-test product
perfect pendulum
phyllocoptruta peregi
pipe fittings
pit blade
plural forms
pontocerebellar tracts
pseudopelletierine
pyromania
rechargable
renal retinitis
rhynchostegiella leptoneura
roslings
salix amygdalinas
sea shells
self-closing electric gate
sight distance
Singur
smelling unpleasant
soil physiology
sol iletsk
spectral sequence
statute of frauds
stone placenta
Stramproy
subcorpus
subfissure
take legal proceedings against sb.
the boom and depression cycle
thermo-galvanometer duddell's
three-yard
uniform molecular weight
unpolitical
weir with horizontal wooden sluice
word game
yokeropes