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
adverse weather condition
Al'met'yevsk
Alcmene
Almogia
and so on
angle of current conduction
Anglesola
anion discharge theory
anticopy device
arm corp.
azimuth steerable and propulsion unit
be of kin
bioflick
bootstrap paradox
bosing
bracho
brachymenium exile
casava poisoning
cash advanced to master
castlemaine
catalyzed reaction
circuit audit
clean risk of liquidation
clockwise helical polarization
coast riff
commercial clearing account
Daphne myrtilloides
dimethyl-suberimidate
Edwards roaster
evolutionary program link procedure
extensible flap
extracellular thirst
Fenazolina
field flax brake
Floropryl
front court
Henke's space
heroships
hierarchy input processing output chart (hipo)
industrial-academic
internal governmental interpretation
jack-post
lead - acid battery
leechfield
leukocytotoxicity
liquidation of position
long life
luminous standard lamp
Marshal of the Royal Air Force
matsuyo
metareasoning
millimeter-wave
natrium acetylarsanilicum
neighbor discovery
nosh-up
nuclear ion drive
NUPD
open venation
pickup elevator
pieris rapae l
pilot hand wheel
pisses away
plankton feeder
precancelling
principal ideal minor ring
promunturium
prurienine
pursiness
quadruple dust collector
real irish republican armies
reel drier
regional dispatching
remote focus control
resolving spectra
Rhopalocnemis
rod float
Saint Vitus dance
saturating capacity of paper
Scintillation.
sensitive error program
shambock
shutterings
silver antimonide
simple one-constituent bed
Singen
soild lubrication
spectral control
steel band
subissue
swordfight
taxed product
tellenberg
telomutation
tension failure
thorbeckeplein
tire bending machine
tums
twinned flat car
vena cutanea lateral.
water logging resistance
wild mushroom
zircon-mullite block