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
alignment behind the tractor
an army of
assault position
back of house
bank acceptance bill
be built upon a rock
best linear unbiased estimate
bucket-wheel feeder
Büttelborn
chancery division
Circinus
classical propositional logic
cleaning frequency
coding segment
complete application
conversion at current price
corilagin
correctional maneuver
cost per byte
Crews Claims for Curing Fee of Wound and Disease
detached dowel crown
durell
enquiry message
Fibrillenstruktur
file recovery program
foreigner's identity card
fundamental process
galloping dominoes
have the ascendancy
hoil
hosted control
intracavity scanning
kunomycin
Kylestrome
legged it
leucophlegmacies
line of obliquity
married couple
mass goods
Mayminskiy Rayon
mefs
membranously
microelectronic device
MMCC
Moral de Calatrava
mortuary
mossbankers
multiplicated autopilot
multiplication of probabilities
muncrief
netherlandishes
nominal length of liquid level gauge
nonconformist registers
note of approval
oncoming
one-cell
overdorf
oxycyclopin
pannier
parenti
PCI Security Standards Council
peak line
permanent tax
pin-feather
piretanide
portableapps
protest flag
Prunus macrophylla Sieb. et Zucc.
pseudoperipteros
punctuated equilibrium
rare metal metallurgy
reedless
reference coupling
residential districts
Rift Valley fever virus
saros cycle
say yes to
ship vibration
shortterm
Sitakoto
sonarman
spectral dispersion
sport-fishing boat
strategician
stratocumulus (sc)
strong focusing accelerator
taphrogenic lineament
TDCO
technical data package
tell someone where to go to head in
test sieving
three-cavity moulding
trocker
uncountable nouns
V-port ralve
video modulator
viticulture
waste disposal in the marine environment
yearnful
yoke of the magnet
Yushania multiramea
zincodes