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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antenna illumination
ash trees
audit notification
balancing valve
Balmaha
bamboozlable
bankstown
because a vision softly creeping
Bouguer's halo broken bow
Brewster's law
bring follow in the rear
calcaneo-astragaloid
calcium oxalate stone
cantilever type boring machine
Chamaeleon
chorionic carcinoma
civil law system
clearance goods
colating
concrete cube test
continuation character
cussed out
cyma reversas
dark-ages
delta delta connection
dew drop
diarylethane liquid crystal
discards
double-sided hood
dry labbing
dull bit
eagle-gazette
Eupatorium capillifolium
exogamy
faggin'
flop about
focal curve
fully homing missile
gay
glamorizers
Godel's incompleteness theorem
going up to
grass-cloth
hand flag
hard-bill
Heilmann comb
high rubber mixing
Hinuma-gawa
humouristically
Husserl, Edmund
hypothalamic inhibiting hormone
ich.
in the wars
induced polarization
inland forwarding expenses
intercarrier frequency
International Tonnage Measurement Convention
latent menstruation
listily
maculatus
mantle-crust mix
marking harness
material consideration
microminiature welder
multiplication of matrices
nass-fish
necessitarianism
non-communal
nonair
notifiable disease
one way circuit
orotic
overland transportation cargo insurance
playins
proportional spacing machine font
psoriasin
retroperistaltic
rock-climbing
scalably
school-goer
sds-pages
semi-starvation
semiperiodic solution
sensibleness
sesbans
sheikhas
spearing
standard cost clearing
standardization principle
steam-cooked
stir it up
street main
sudomotor
Tamami
tractus iliotibialis
tyre press
unstiffened member
violation of international law
virtual processor
viscosity loss
vocs
wolvertons