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
Acer anhweiense
an heir at law
anodal opening
anteversions
Antoine Henri Becquerel
architectural draftsman
arrester(-tor)
be in a fidget
blade tenon
bothropace
bulged finish
by the window
canada balsams
carpenter's file
chalcostibite
clarinite
coffee-breaks
commerce power
composite shield
cooptative
Curschmann's disease
dentes lemiarii
direct waste heat
Doc-in-a-Box, doc-in-a-box
dreggiest
Dwangwa
echographer
elatrate
electron linear accelerator
ethelburga
expressionism
finialled
finite transit time
first heart sound
flail tank
forwarding instruction
free-draining molecule
gethsemani
Girard's method
gorecki
hand-hoven bread
heat cost
horizontal terrestrial photograph
humus layer
hyper transport
hypodermal fiber
illuminating engineering
industrial buildings allowance
intelligent backtracking
irmelas
jalfrezi
large motor vehicle
level and smooth
Manaskent
mancanzano
mass transfer grashof number
MIDI sequencer
Morisque
non-qualified
one bank holding company
operation study
pandu
piperocaine hydrochlorides
pithier
plagiosaurids
plant orders
plumtree
polar fox
Poulet's disease
pressure-plotting
profits
punched paper tape channels
quartzose grit
quercetums
radio robot ombrometer
railway trunk line locomotive
Romazy
Rosslea
rural-urban relations
saline cathartics
San José, I.
second order logic
Sherābād
small caps
Snapchat
solidification contraction
Sphaerellarina
steady-state reverberation sound
sub-central
take something away
timesharing executive
trade-liberalization
translucent oil-proof paper
triricinoleidin
ultimate user
umbecast
unequalized profit rate of capital
vertical gyroscope indicator
way type drilling unit
Wheatstone automatic telegraph
with one hand tied behind one's back
Yugambeh