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
agar diffusion technology
AHUMADA-DEL
Alcudrin
algebraic spatial image restoration
always-on
Ambele
antiadoption
antigenocide
arics
atresia tubalis
attenuation measuring device
auto decrement addressing
Baboszewo
Balιkesir
be in pawn
be versant with sb
Bilijodan
Bogodougou
breathholds
Buller Gorge
calming section
cargo van
cesium thiocyanate
closed circuit system
coefficient of consanguinity
collisionless instability
computer numerical control (cnc)
concentration logarithmic diagram
concrete check
conical contour
coude
crossfeed
cylinder friction coupling
DAD, dad
deculture
dichotomic
dislodgeable
distributor's profit margin
Dobie's layer
Dobson
dpah
dustcell
ericius
fixed interconnection matrix
forwarding office
froctosamine
gasoline stripping
gate type coal grab
go boards
graphite-epoxy
gun parallax
hand knotted carpet
Hansen theory
Hardegsen
heteropterus
holy laugh
Hungarian grass
impedence matching
in off position
inductance in parallel
Inverkeithing
jumping net
knobbles
l'avance
labial line
Lancefild
machine sheet
mannerable
milled head
nitrate bed
non-acid forming
non-skid tread
ophthalmic rosasea
overhead product
parallel sided combustion chamber
picaroons
platinum(iv) sulfide
propyladiphenine
pulsed-off signal
put to rights
respited
rouillan
round out
SCEL
Scotland I.
scrounging
seisable
sheet pasting machine
shooting ratio
single-year
syllabising
Taymyr(Dolgano-Nenets)Autono-mnyy Okrug
Toluifera balsamum L.
tribologist
triradiately
vegetal pole vegetative pole
wellderived
wind farming
x-ray dose
yamming
zinc-bearing mineral