时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之日常生活


英语课

 


Breaking Bad Habits 


Counselor 1: Welcome everybody. You’ve all joined this support group because you have some bad habits that you’d like to break. Would anyone like to introduce themselves and tell us about their bad habit? 


Stu: Uh yeah, I’m Stu and my wife signed me up for this support group because she says I have some really bad habits. One of my worst is my nail biting. You can see that they’re pretty ragged 2. 


Counselor: Thank you, Stu. Is there anyone else...? 


Stu: Oh yeah, I also smack 3 my gum. That drives my wife crazy, so I try not to do it in her presence. 


Counselor: Well, thanks for sharing, Stu. If we could move on to... 


Stu: I also tend to tap my fingers and crack my joints 4, which my wife says is really annoying, though her hair twirling is pretty annoying to me. 


Counselor: Stu? Let’s let a few other people... 


Stu: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention what my wife says is my most annoying bad habit. 


Counselor: What is that? 


Stu: I tend to interrupt people in conversation. 


Counselor: Really? I hadn’t noticed. 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 counselor
n.顾问,法律顾问
  • The counselor gave us some disinterested advice.顾问给了我们一些无私的忠告。
  • Chinese commercial counselor's office in foreign countries.中国驻国外商务参赞处。
2 ragged
adj.衣衫褴褛的,粗糙的,刺耳的
  • A ragged shout went up from the small crowd.这一小群人发出了刺耳的喊叫。
  • Ragged clothing infers poverty.破衣烂衫意味着贫穷。
3 smack
vt.拍,打,掴;咂嘴;vi.含有…意味;n.拍
  • She gave him a smack on the face.她打了他一个嘴巴。
  • I gave the fly a smack with the magazine.我用杂志拍了一下苍蝇。
4 joints
接头( joint的名词复数 ); 关节; 公共场所(尤指价格低廉的饮食和娱乐场所) (非正式); 一块烤肉 (英式英语)
  • Expansion joints of various kinds are fitted on gas mains. 各种各样的伸缩接头被安装在煤气的总管道上了。
  • Expansion joints of various kinds are fitted on steam pipes. 各种各样的伸缩接头被安装在蒸气管道上了。
学英语单词
Abd al-Aziz
aberrant behavior
Abertridwr
adipic diamide
allowed orbit
antenna winch
atoned
avenins
ball suspension
beaded structure
bethanked
bleaching of coloured goods
Bonna
Brigitte
calico bandage
carexes
centralized control board
collision-free
condenser tube plate
constant declaration section
cryptoclimatology
curvilinear network
daisy cutters
dead weight carrying capacity
dehydrobilirubin
displacement of joint
dried beef clod
eisdorfer
error macro
fibre-optic
front-wheel drive vehicle
get back into harness
glaucomatous
hard of heart
heat resisting quality
Hexaklor
hightechnology
Imeni Maksima Gor'kogo
impetulant
inaccurately
industrial-frequency band
intercommunity highway
isogemichalcone
Jebbies
lap-band
lip retractor
low estimate
marking-off from mould bars
Metadomeykite
minimum redundancy
Minirotavirus
mortgage rate
mslo
multiple pile driven tower
nash demand game
nepotistic
nonretinal
observation program
original sources
ostium uterinum tubae
outdoor sport
Panchimalco
past-tense
pentymalnatrium
peripheral sinuses of lymph gland
physical labour
pin limitation
point of staff
porous tile
port-royal-logic
postscripts
presidentialists
procarbazine hydrochloride
properties and classification
protesting
Prurient Interest
range recorder
reauthored
resolution theorem proving
Ribes komarovii
secondary raw material
self-references
silfs
simplesses
strike me blind
structure steel frame
sub-plan
systematics of science
tarantulism
the roughness of the running surface
the sixties
Tianjin Mariner School
timing comparator circuit
turbine combustor
turnover rate on total resources employed
unswan-like
upriser
v. testicularis
vaucluses
wch.
wood bolt