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》
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accessory drive shaft
acid asphalt
acquire immunity
agriculture water supply
air velocity indicator
allegoricalness
Amiabad
anterior bronchial artery
Articulatio cuneonavicularis
attenuation band
band sound pressure level
be at the plague
bishydroxamic
Born-Oppen-heimer approximation
bronchus (pl. -chi)
Cape Verde Islands
carryables
centaurium calycosums
check valve body
Chingola
claimratio
clock shift register
coefficient of correlation
completion of progress
condenser tube plate
confocal ring resonator
connaisseurs
courses of action
Cryptococcales
defect of diaphragm
disturdison
dual density
dynamic equivalent
Elepsin
employer contact person name
experimentwise
febris tritaea
feminizing adrenal tumor
fighting weight
flourishments
frileux
galactosylglucose
head trim
hourly rainfall depth
hypodigm concept
impail
intergenal spine
irreversible permeability
ISGF
kaleidoscopelike
Khurba
Lambesc
lapstone
large-signal power gain
lee coast
leveling staff
lipkis
main rail
manual link
meioses
melanomycin
metallic reducing agent
methylaurin
military dialectics
milli-cycles
module interface
Neuburg am Rhein
norlatifoline
oralogy
over-cool
overtunic
paleophycology
peten
plasma heat treatment
polish-brush
praebrachial
preconceived opinion
product branding
quantisation
Red Sea State
RIPE3b
Sargent
sego
short-range attack missile
shove-halfpenny
spions
spumonis
stern tube-retaining strip
streak material
street side
Suit for Wrongful Ship Arrested
summons for directions
tainted egg
texture feature
thingys
tiringroom
to a great extent
vasohibin
water-cooled oil-immersed transformer
Wi-Fi dongle
workcamper
yearlings