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
1-nitroanthraquinone
actual plasticity
Anchorage Administration
ANS
anti-dumping case
assoc.
backstage deal
beam-landing screen error
bifurcation structure
biology achievement test
boundary-lines
cape-gooseberry
carcass grade
catch somebody's eye
catwalkers
chymotryptase
claudia
cold-drawn rate
covert wrecker
cullberg
daughterlike
dialogos
diamond-back moth
Dianella ensifolia
electric flux line
Emirian
fiber product
find credence with
floc size
fluorosugar
free-atom cross section
freyda
full circle
general's battle
geometric isomerism
gun bronze
ignition chamber
Indridae
interacting subsystem
interrupted quick flashing light
isetan
isthmodynia
junkballs
kamp
Khanty-Mansiyskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug
life-experiences
local passenger display controller
lower mould half
Lt
matchette
mesencephalic nuclei
mild finishing
natural musk
nonoperatively
nopalxochia
norpristane
of high station
opalesces
overdosses
oxysuccinic acid
parabola feed
partowner
petameter
pine bark beetle
pirasulfon
pony expresses
prelimitation
propagation ground
quarter-sawed lumber
quasi-personal
quotity
racial inheritance
rag tearing machine
Ray Douglas Bradbury
REFCON
refect
rod seal
rutted
sales-driven philosophy
screw spanner
sebesta
shrike
shrimpier
social contact
Spondylodidymy
spurious force
steam-jet ash conveyer
strap clamp
suspended-growth biological process
Templepatrick
thirty-one
throat plane
torch
triple grid
truncated dodecahedrons
uncredits
upstaying
vienna turquoise
with a capital B
with equanimity
zone melting technique
Zvenigovo