时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之日常生活


英语课

 


School Fundraisers 


Valerie: What’s this? 


A.J.: It’s a note from Rachel’s school. It’s about the next fundraiser. 


Valerie: Oh no, not another one. What is it this time – a raffle 1, car wash, or spaghetti dinner? 


A.J.: It’s none of those things. It’s a combination bake sale and craft sale. Parents are supposed to donate baked goods and handmade items. 


Valerie: This is crazy. Every month there’s something else. Last month, it was a candy sale. I had to hit up everybody at work, and that’s on the tail of raffle tickets the month before. It’s like this every year. 


A.J.: I know, we already donated a lot of things to the rummage 2 sale last semester and gift certificates for the silent auction 3 two months ago. With two kids in two different schools, I feel like we never get a breather. 


Valerie: I know and there’s more. Brian’s school is asking parents to buy a brick that will be part of a new school building and our names will be engraved 4 on it. 


A.J.: You’re kidding, right? One more fundraiser and my name will get engraved, all right – on my tombstone! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 raffle
n.废物,垃圾,抽奖售卖;v.以抽彩出售
  • The money was raised by the sale of raffle tickets.这笔款子是通过出售购物彩券筹集的。
  • He won a car in the raffle.他在兑奖售物活动中赢得了一辆汽车。
2 rummage
v./n.翻寻,仔细检查
  • He had a good rummage inside the sofa.他把沙发内部彻底搜寻了一翻。
  • The old lady began to rummage in her pocket for her spectacles.老太太开始在口袋里摸索,找她的眼镜。
3 auction
n.拍卖;拍卖会;vt.拍卖
  • They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
  • They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。
4 engraved
v.在(硬物)上雕刻(字,画等)( engrave的过去式和过去分词 );将某事物深深印在(记忆或头脑中)
  • The silver cup was engraved with his name. 银杯上刻有他的名字。
  • It was prettily engraved with flowers on the back. 此件雕刻精美,背面有花饰图案。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
admit daylight into someone
agriculture water supply
Amauropsis
amount advanced
anerethisia
Asian coral snake
astigma
astrometries
attain to
automatic machine equipment
blisce
box freight car
bumped head
C-PTH
Cabinet Crowd
commercial organization and customhouse
conjugated acid and base
countee
countersunks
crossdisciplinary
daphna
dendroaspiss
dequeue
dyotropic
Early Redemption
embrocated
Ems(Eems)
experimentator
faburdens
focoes
GLBT(gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender)
go-go boots
Good ale will make a cat speak.
grayfields
griffinism
guardiennes
harbinson
heat coagulation
hereditary fragility of bone
Hexathir
horizontal hum bars
in witness whereof
inin
International Petroleum Commission
Internet commerce provider
intersystems
Irian Barat
Kamo Mabuchi
kandahars
Karmathians
last bottom margin
linguliform
machine industry
magnetic ledger
maidenkin
masonville
medium-speed ship
mek
misshaped
mock-heroic
mummy
Nabão, R.
nonadditive mixing
Ophiorrhiza kwangsiensis
otic
overexcavation
p-basis
passenger glow diagram for each direction
pedograph
pivot cup
poliadic
posings
preproduction sample
professional privateers
pulse code system
purple fever
pvts
ray flowers
re-deployed
reserve fund
retransmission technique
Rhodohypoxis
robust blacksmelt
sauce Louis
serial number control
sideyns
slave ants
solderability
special cost
star tv
steel-cored aluminum cable
submeter
temporal response
transaction for forward delivery
tubography
uncancelable
well fluid logging
wikes
Willshire
with a sudden desire to
yawner
zoodes formosanus