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 clear conscience
accessory species
acusticofacial crest
aniline equivalent aniline number
atypical recurrent fever
automatic ph adjustment
Baita
bellical
black and white panchromatic roll
bozette
brias
Buddhism
business fluctuations
carrier-ring orifice
catch time by the forelock
cell display
ceramic thin film
chain coal-cutter
choa i
choleperitonitis
chronic bronchitis
closest packed lattice
Cmd window
Coptis Salisb.
counterweight battery
courtesman
cryptosporidia
cryptozoological
death agony
dentproof
devotion
economic class
effect of civil law
estheticism
fast(-neutron) flux
gearing up
glacier variation
Guest unit
half-size scale
hard graft
headrushing
herpesvirus
heterochromatinised
homologous hapten
Ilex jiaolingensis
indan
International Astronautical Federation
ionizing radiation measurement
iron-dust core coil
isodextran
Joachimsthaler
justacorps
kick-off
Lakelands
late finish
lettie
lie detectors
live beam pass
lundum
marver
match-fitness
mean lethal dose
Merrillan
micozzi
Mindoro Oriental, Prov.of
misdivision haploid (kimber & riley 1963)
mixing vat
mould-board
nonwoven
normal select
not straight
passengered
plano-polyhedral angle
platyrhaphe lanyuensis
poethood
pokeweed family
polyadelphous
posterior tympanotomy
preconformity
pruritogens
pseudo-papilla
pulsed magnetron sputtering
pump shaft seal water
quasi negotiable document
Rimava
Santo Stefano di Briga
sepawn
Sidra, G.of
soupfins
specimen rammer
supplier quality
syrup curing
take with freedoms with someone
thermocouple-type fixed temperature detector
tide roll
town-husband
track bolt hole
varicosities
ventral nerve trunk
vestolit
wellharnessed
wisehart