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
a reversed charge
additional insurance goods
advisory for gale and rain
aglycones
aphthong
argle-bargled
asilomar
aurelia
auxiliary lens
billbergia macrocalyx hook
Boiko
brecciated texture
Brestskaya Oblast'
buty propionate
carnivore ecology
chassis cowl
cheque lost
club football
coach-office
commercium
consolidated corporation
DASC
De Witt County
dingot cleaning
drag hound
emergency oxygen
endothelioma cutis
energy demand trend
Eurasian green toad
expected value of stock out
fah
fanshaped delta
fertilizer plant
final reheater
fishings
foreign corporaions
gum thus
hazy picture
Heavy Communication Satellite
Hedysarum songaricum
hematometry
hydromagnetism
Hygrophorus
identity politics
in a line with something
intercapital veins
interreflections
liquefaction of air
low-limit
luminisms
lunar carbon chemistry
lysinosis
match-fixing
mesoretina
money form of value
multi-flue
Negre, Pico (Nègre, Pic)
no more...than
non aspirated
non-evolutional
nuoc mams
operation of logarithm
overhype
palpal base
Pan American Games
paraduodenal
parilia major
pneumopyelography
quaco
radix abelmoscbi
refiner disc
rheumatic carditis
ring flange mounting screw
road noise
sacrosanctum
seanad eireanns
select card back
Self-peservation
signiorship
sirloin steaks
sodium dehydroeholate
solar array deployment mechanism
spare anchor
spatial information
spindle nose
sulfatara
synchronous link dram
system of government
take the wall
the younger generation
tinea intersecta
topograghy
Tractatus Coislinianus
trichloro-methyl chloroformate
unredeemable
Vidar
virial equation of state
vitner
vorlaufer
wanne
welldrilling
yeunnin