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
acetone amine
aeropolygon
affordment
Alasin
arse wipe
as fleet as a deer
associated mode of operation
basipetal
bibations
bichromated dye
biotite camptonite
brydes
burn blue
business-cards
CABEI
chair cars
clearing away summerheat
collateral radial artery
Coriolis deflection
Coussac-Bonneval
cross paths
Dansomania
dearheart
delys
deprotected
development reactor
dipalmito-stearin
donetta
ear spoon
ether cone
ferropyrosmalite
fetichizes
fibrous glia
fluid passageway
galewes
ganbei
Gasségalo
have a terror of sth
hollow body
I bet
infinite multiplets
jay smoke
kampur
level control valve
linear synchronous machine
Liski
lymphodermia perniciosa
M. L. D.
magnetic integrated circuitry
martinshaw
maximum fluctuation
monobloc roging
myricaria dahurica ehrenb.
narcans
nigroporus vinosuss
no-consequence attempt
order Anseriformes
panel select
paper low reset
peritoneoplasty
pitch interval
pneumatically-operated
point involution
pranidhana
public debate
Rathke's pouch tumor
readies
Rohilla
rolled dry
saturate steam pressure
Scherbius machine
seminates
setting aside
silverprob
smell the bottom
smj
snow block
so mote it be
spark plug terminal nut
sparking region
square quartz porphyry
St. David's day
stele (stela)
stratigraphic table
subnarcotic
table-hopping
tag number list
tetraisopropylthiuram disulfide
thatcherism
Tp44
trachelomonas pusilla punctata
train approach announcement
transport level
trinchero
troezen
typographical display
usurpious
valve play
wiping effect
wire feed motor
yajna
zero-force member