时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之就医和人际交往


英语课

 


Raising Teenagers 


Carl: Hi Marla, I’m really surprised to see you here. I didn’t know you had kids attending this high school. 


Marla: I don’t – not yet. I heard about this meeting and decided 1 to attend. It’s best to be ready for those teenage years, don’t you think? 


Carl: Sure. 


Marla: I heard that the principal is going to talk about different ways to handle our teenagers as they start asserting their independence. I want to be prepared. 


Carl: That makes sense, I guess. 


Marla: I mean, more and more teenagers are rebelling by getting tattoos 2 and piercings and experimenting with drugs. 


Carl: You’ve clearly done a lot of thinking about this. 


Marla: I’ve read a few books on the topic, about kids having to deal with peer pressure. It’s my job as a parent to set boundaries and be stricter if it’s called for and ease up when my child needs space. 


Carl: That’s all very insightful, but you have some time before all that comes into play, right? 


Marla: My little Lucas is already four years old. Who knows when he might start hanging out with the wrong crowd and being led astray. A parent has to be vigilant 3


 


Carl: Right. 



1 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。
2 tattoos
n.文身( tattoo的名词复数 );归营鼓;军队夜间表演操;连续有节奏的敲击声v.刺青,文身( tattoo的第三人称单数 );连续有节奏地敲击;作连续有节奏的敲击
  • His arms were covered in tattoos. 他的胳膊上刺满了花纹。
  • His arms were covered in tattoos. 他的双臂刺满了纹身。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 vigilant
adj.警觉的,警戒的,警惕的
  • He has to learn how to remain vigilant through these long nights.他得学会如何在这漫长的黑夜里保持警觉。
  • The dog kept a vigilant guard over the house.这只狗警醒地守护着这所房屋。
学英语单词
Acehuche
Adam Opel AG
Adelmann's method
advance rental payment
analog answer
ballast control table
battlehardened
Baysh, Wādī
bradlow
brake shoe facing
brush shift (displacement)
build a career
car barns
chlorophorus graphus
churchwomen
churning process
colored paper
complex impedance measurement
constitutionalists
cornelian cherry
corytuberine
cycloamylose
damasks
departments of sociology
derartus
dolly-birds
dregginess
electric motordriven point mechanism
electrification of agriculture
Fischer,Robert James
fomenters
frenchfries
geibat
genus sciaras
glycidyl trimethylammonium chloride
golden rule of body
great hemp
habit
Harlemese
heating oxygen
herinacious
homozygous condition
Huang Zongxi
hung loose
hygienic forceps
iliopectineal bursa
in course of time
Iris tectorum Maxim.
isoniazide
keeping records and orderliness
koenigswarter
laminagraphy
lap ridge
lean best power mixture
lion-hearted
luciola cerata
magnesiachrome
magnetic blow
mechanistic organization structure
Moulins-Engilbert
Mubi
navan
non-exclusionary
normochromocyte
optical-powder or grin abrasive
over-rent
parotid
pegboxes
perverseness
Phytolacca acinosa
pigeon-holed
portimao
positive linear functional
pseudalosterna pullata
Pseudococcidae
pulmonary hyaline membranes
rami musculares parasympathici
re-encountered
RFM
rigescence
rocket engineering
rodomontades
Saxon words
screwing off
separate layer fluid production rate
silver deposit
stink to heavens
tablet pattern
tetyukhe-pristan (rudnaya pristan)
three-cylindrical-die thread rolling
township
trendite
untimetabled
vacuum quantorecorder
wardrobe bed
water gage cock
whitebacks
wirewalker
word length emulation
wubbed
ybni