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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agriculturalization
amphetamine sulfate
anchorage ground
and what is worse
angiokinase
antiperistaltic wave
average rate of change
boiler tube stopper
bootstrap exploration
Brφnnφysund
budgetary control system
Butte County
by one's side
C.S.O.
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Carterton
Cleveland, (Stephen) Grover
coccaro
coefficient of kurtosis
come to gripes
cornea and iris
coumaron
cycle of nitrogen
data carrier
dermal ossification
desert islands
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disinherit
displayability
dissertation abstracts
distended tummy
Eberschwang
electrically oriented wave
extraction plant
ferrous peroxide
Filariata
first International
flirtigigs
free-flowing milk powder
gateway node
General Household Survey
giant mouse (pl. mice)
gingelly
ground state
Halfway Hill
ham band
header type heater
heat-resist
holochoanitic
hyalobasalt
hydrogen-binding
impeller
inelastoc collision
infant hygienics
Iprofenin
isostatic reduction
knickerss
Knoxweed
lightweight aggregate concrete
lithium ethoxide
Lovua(Lóvua)
maddon
megohm box
Menth-1-en-4-ol
metasomatic lead-zinc deposit in carbonate rock
methanonaphthalene
musically
neuroniits
next executable statement
notomelic monster
operoseness
oxysulfate
parallelogram-type ripper
photoglottography
powder metal forging
priority processings
propaedeutic stratigraphy
protectorist
puebla de zaragozas
pyrgomorphids
recoil strength
refueling pattern
relative area of transvariation
resolvable balanced incomplete block design
sanukitoid
Schwalbe's fissures
secreto-inhibitory
sighting pendant
sillon
Sternberg
synthetic manure
tentsuyu
tiprosilant
trade documentation
trench isolation
upper-middle-income economics
urban critic
UROKON
Valid Claim
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