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
acenaphthene
aluminum container
angle stitch
application program identification
ascii subset
beveled-glass
bridge remote control
bungee-jump
caisson pile
car-hires
cartilaginous part of auditory tube
change of voyage clause
checking mechanism
chicken scratch
cisvestism
cleaned up
coefficient of temperature conductivity
collapse pressure
cosine sum
Cyclanine
data federation technology
Day Glo
Debove's disease
deglacierization
delta attribute
dna-binding
Eudorm
excited triplet state
faunistical
feel no interest in
forced-birthers
fried pork
gatelike
get somebody together
horse trading
inquisitor latisinuata
iso-keraunic line
Jaloallophane
jougler
karaya gum
kept out of the way
knisely
letter of attorney
liquid glucose
loopies
low cost die
lugards
mcpherson(fort mcpherson)
Meskene(Maskanah)
military sub-district
millisecond life radioisotope
mixture of lower alcohols
Mlicrococcus flavus desidens
mode-locking laser
molecular magnet
motion image
multiplex carrier telephony
national guardsman
non-porous mass
oecumenicism
orthodontic bracess
outgrossed
overmilked
passenger profile
pendulum accelerometer
photoisomerase
photoplane
plow share
potroast
predistorter
prophylactic disinfection
pulmonary function recorder
pulse biasing
refabricates
repeatcd stress
roughing special slotting tool
Sakaigawa
scintigraphic
servo unit gyro control
simulative method
slewing winch motor
spiderfishes
spurious vein
stamp one's drum
standing rules
static corrosion test
suspended roof
Taiwanobryum
tankard-shaped
the right to life
the university
time series method
travel adapter
trioxytriphenylmethane
tuberculochemotherapeutic
typewritists
unguis (pl. ungues)
unified microwave system
unpocket
USNORTHCOM
wound dystrophy
Zedelgem