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
abortive transduction
absenters
all-silk goods
alternate spells of chill and fever
anaptychi
angioderm
automatic test module
Ban Ba Bit
bar chart
barrier island complex
beer
biometric sample
bring something to
bull spread
cascade cooling system
chromosome knob
Cléré-les-Pins
complete cavitation
convolution method of inversion
courier-journal
Cristalomicina
cross electromagnetic wave small room
cybercasinos
cyclical industry
cycloversion reforming process
derelinque
didions
dolasetron
einstein de sitter universe
epidemic victim
exhaling
family coregonidaes
flexural psoriasis
flue gas analysis
gist of the offense
half-mature forest
hard environment
hot-junction
Ilex fargesii
in kind
infill panel
interactive debug requirement
itch-threshold
Khmelnytskyi
Khorassan
Kocaeli
kokobeh
Lanta Yai, Ko
ligustrum japonicums
LTC-IC
Mahadu
maxillary hook
menswear-inspired
metastable atom
meticulous to a fault
Milkan
Minkowski, Hermann
nabilone
narendra
neurosecretory cells
noisemaker
numerical function
nymphohymeneal
Octomyomermis
oscillator amplifier
peroneal groove
phytosaurs
pocos de caldas
producer-price
pulley bracket
rail shooter
ready reckoners
recharge area of groundwater
reconversion of the UF6 to sinterable UO2
reforested
restraint of prices
ride a bullet
rocket airplane
rupture of strands
scarfable
security policy
sensitive line
shigematsu
solid-drawn steel pipe
space-dipole array
special blended tea
Sphenolepidium
St-Cricq-Chalosse
subcritical extraction
target selector
temple sleep
terpineol
tetramethyl orthosilicate
ungained
ungaudy
usnea masudana
vesicula optica inversa
villeroy
Waagenoconcha
warhead-fragmenting
working-plan report
zygostates