时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:英语时差8,16


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Do you ever fancy a career change? Well if you can cast spells, fly on a broomstick and have a good cackle, then you might be interested in becoming a professional witch. And if you become the Witch of Wookey Hole you could even earn a good salary. Legend has it that the haunted caves of Wookey Hole in the south of England were home to a witch who laid a curse on the local villagers, until she was turned to stone by a monk 1. These days the caves are a tourist attraction which bring in thousands of visitors a year. And they have just appointed a new witch. On Tuesday, Carole Bonahan beat over 300 applicants 2 with pointy hats, capes 3 and hooked noses to win the £50,000-a-year (around 500,000 RMB) post as Wookey Hole's resident witch. Carole, who will now be known by her witch's name Carla Calamity 4, will give up her job as an estate agent in order to become a full-time 5 witch. Her main duty will be welcoming visitors to the caves. Miss Calamity wears stilettos and describes herself as a "glamorous 6 witch". Indeed, Carla Calamity had to overcome a wide range of people from all walks of life in order to get the job. Teachers, a photographer, and even an accountant all threw their hats in the ring. So next time you feel like introducing a little magic into your life, you might want to think about a career in witching.



1 monk
n.和尚,僧侣,修道士
  • The man was a monk from Emei Mountain.那人是峨眉山下来的和尚。
  • Buddhist monk sat with folded palms.和尚合掌打坐。
2 applicants
申请人,求职人( applicant的名词复数 )
  • There were over 500 applicants for the job. 有500多人申请这份工作。
  • He was impressed by the high calibre of applicants for the job. 求职人员出色的能力给他留下了深刻印象。
3 capes
碎谷; 斗篷( cape的名词复数 ); 披肩; 海角; 岬
  • It was cool and they were putting on their capes. 夜里阴冷,他们都穿上了披风。
  • The pastor smiled to give son's two Capes five cents money. 牧师微笑着给了儿子二角五分钱。
4 calamity
n.灾害,祸患,不幸事件
  • Even a greater natural calamity cannot daunt us. 再大的自然灾害也压不垮我们。
  • The attack on Pearl Harbor was a crushing calamity.偷袭珍珠港(对美军来说)是一场毁灭性的灾难。
5 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。
6 glamorous
adj.富有魅力的;美丽动人的;令人向往的
  • The south coast is less glamorous but full of clean and attractive hotels.南海岸魅力稍逊,但却有很多干净漂亮的宾馆。
  • It is hard work and not a glamorous job as portrayed by the media.这是份苦差,并非像媒体描绘的那般令人向往。
学英语单词
-vastatin
actuarian
advocating
air-logged
apparent solid volume
atmospheric predictability
autocycler
aviaphobia, aviophibia
battisti
Bay of Bengal
bethinks
biolytic
blackguardly
block bookings
bribee
buggy canopy
cagean
cathode preheating time
central network supervisor
centrosomally
chipped potatoes
cogenerates
complicacy
computer-controlled reactor
conduction regime
congenital prepapillary vascular loops
corydailne
creditor's equity
decry
defensive interval
dermonema virens
despatialized
either-or order
elend
enfolders
export letter-of-credit advance
facies artieularis malleolaris
fire flow
first love
Fontanarossa, Aeroporto di
Gilham
goods road train
gradungulid
hardware stage
Heath, Edward Richard George
heavy crop
hippocampal lobe
human conversation
hydraena porcula
hyperchromic group
irrevocable power of attorney
jack key lamp panel
junids
koshers
kreisky
lead isotope
Litsea kobuskiana
manta
mechanical-vignetting
mechanics of vibration
member-countries
micropore permeability
miguelina
murch
nitrogen bridge
non-union worker
nonsegregated backmixing
oats flakes
odcase
on line test stand alone executive program
ovalis pelvis
Palihon I.
perezoso
pesterest
pnoes
postholes
put to the test
red ginseng
RHRS (residual heat removal system)
rifamycin-X
rotary hearth furnace
rowage
school-master
sedentarisation
Spelle
spincoating
successively worked parallel relay network
sucks to be you
supply parent material
tapered tungstenlead
telegramme
tensioning bracket
theological
troubled-debt
twisted around
under-pressure
unfit to plead
unspecific projection system
valve-diagram
vena bulbi urethrae
Vendas Novas
width length ratio