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
a race against time
acronymically
administrative terminal system (ats)
aubstitute
backstrokers
basebred
beat billy
Brevibacillus
bureau of justice statistics
cage up
camera strap
cartridge receiver
catterick garrison
charge indicator relay
clelea formosana
coelodera penicillata formosana
core constituent
dealbata
Decatur I.
dechoker
despuming
difficult-to-detect
dis proving
Donja Gračenica
ectopic heart
Edwardite
efficiency of frontier
excess horse power
exursion
field-frequency square wave
freak wave
functional foods
functionally invariant
galactic disk
gas refrigerator
gik
habberdehoy
hold ladder
htf
import deposit rate
Indian National Congress
inside glazing
institution activation date
Japanese Islands
leinecker
lidens
light-off detector
little gulls
Magnetic Head Pulley
mammonization
medical audit
melting under white slag
moderate-to-severe
naphthoresorcine
natalensis
nationhood
Nervus hypogastricus sinister
Newf.
North Marston
noun clauses
open coil winding
order Heterotrichales
over-optimism
pay-packets
pencil shape beam radar
permanent disturbance
personal device
plexus chorioideus
proper value
Pudelpointer
radiolytic attact
railway equipment
risk benefit ratio
roll damper actuator
roman font
rough workpiece surface
Salmonella-Shigella agar
shift operation
sieving
sight-reading
single distribution liquidation
single-cylinder
sinusoidal distribution
skin drying mould
sonic bang
stratigraphic modeling
superlatives
Syacium
synchro generator
testing apparatus
throttle controller
thymothymectomies
typical profile
uniform cross section
unipotent stem cell
us la
venture company
water-use for hydropower
whale liver oil
wire rope extensometer
wood vinegar
zinc-carbon