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
a good time
accessory circulatory organ
ad damnum clause
Aldeia Nova
anterior lingual gland
apatropin
artichoke bite
assessing
assiduities
average service life of chain
be knocked cold
bisnorfenchone
bleke
break time
brings up
bursated exostosis
butylidenephalide
camporese
cheese mo(u)ld
cogpu
come to ... sense
continuous logic
Cowardiana
cradle frame
criterion of efficiency
decoloured
denegri
drift-lift ratio
Fieldler theory of leadership
flame retardant cable
flood warping irrigation
gasdynamic
General Public License
geodetic earth orbiting satellite
guess wrong
haemodilutions
hi-rez
highest-octane
histocompatibility locus
hotboxes
hypervelocity round
in pity of
in the slammer
infiltration test
insurance act
intractable nonlinearity
Isidrina
isobacteriochlorin
key post
lateral budding
leased fixed assets
lyriothemis flava
magnet extraction
matsch
mattern
maximum trace amplitude
measuring grid
misproportions
mount everest
multicyclone dust collector
NC machine tool
nice work if you can get it
obovalis
one point testing method
oreweeds
oxygen consumption gauge
perceptualize
peta-
Piacoa
polyvinyl cinnamate
portability of software system
pours down
principal particulars
rackly
radio telecontrol of locomotive for shunting at hump
rapid-deployments
refined spirit
reinvigorates
retarder in working state
riddarholm
romantically
rough-tree
saponificated
scramble pattern
second-order hexagonal dipyramid
sendzimir mill
SNW (spot network)
sonchus arvensis
spirillemia minus
statical equilibrium
stock plots
substantial shareholding
Svilengrad
szmura
Taquari
the nursery of disease
thyreoepirhelioma
torpedo unit
turbine case
typhoid-paratyphoid A and B and tetanus vaccine
U-30170
vibrating dampener