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
acyl rearrangement
adviseable
alhanet
American larch
anterior fontanel
antipleasure
arc-jet engine
bedryden
bias binding
biodiesel-powered
biopsychiatrists
bitch slapped
Bordeira
bovver boys
briefers
cab-rank patrol
charge to one'saccount
circle scanner
consistometer
constant period of drying
consultantservice
cookset
covering yard
decreasing pressure
deoxynucleotidyltransferase
Ellsworth Land
estimated output
exotic cheroot
extracolumella
fatty concretion
feeding in
filmshows
Fleming County
frienge
frontal action
frozen convenience food
Gaussian classifier
gouty arthropathy
granitic batholith
hand lens
hard-wrought
harmonic response method
haveners
highly parallel arithmetic
hybridization of atomic orbits
ideal-fluid
interrupt status
isoprene styrene latex
jack-in-the-pulpulpits
Jolivet, Andre
karnes
kiganene
Kupiškis
landamycin
leafen
lepocinclis ovum
Lissajous curve
loose colour
Lubuskie
masked epilepsy
Montegut
multichannel multiplier
New Unionville
nodal expansion method
noise alleviation
nom race
Nordegg
orgue de barbarie
pleuroperitoneal ducts
point-point angular correlation
pre-funding
pressure cooking
prison purse
quasiperiodic
quick flasking light
re-afferent
red iron oxide in powder
riger
roof line
rubidium thiocyanate
rumbustion
selenium(iv) oxyfluoride
self-supported
short-circuits
solvothermal
source signal
square trench
steam regeneration
stemonitis fusca violacea
super-regional
Swan Pt.
ta hsia
tail-fin
through-plate
transparent paramagnetic substance
turbine flotation
utraquisms
vfs
white lupine
win cooperation of
XXXes
Yakima River