时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:轻松英文阅读


英语课

 Robin 1 and Jordan are teenage girls. But they lived very separate lives until one day, when they discovered that they had something very special in common .


 
This chance encounter occurred on January 9, 2013, at a high school track meet in Washington D.C. where they both live . Jordan’s teammates were the first to notice. They told Jordan that a girl on the other team looked just like her. So she decided 2 to go talk to this girl.
 
Jordan was adopted shortly after birth . She had known some details about her biological mother. For example, she knew her last name was Jeter. As the two talked to each other she discovered that Robin’s last name was Jeter too. At that point, she knew she was talking to her sister.
 
As a child, Robin was bounced around from her biological mother to foster care to a legal guardian 3 and she had never heard about a sibling 4. The two girls were living in the same city for 17 years, but they never crossed paths.

1 robin
n.知更鸟,红襟鸟
  • The robin is the messenger of spring.知更鸟是报春的使者。
  • We knew spring was coming as we had seen a robin.我们看见了一只知更鸟,知道春天要到了。
2 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
3 guardian
n.监护人;守卫者,保护者
  • The form must be signed by the child's parents or guardian. 这张表格须由孩子的家长或监护人签字。
  • The press is a guardian of the public weal. 报刊是公共福利的卫护者。
4 sibling
n.同胞手足(指兄、弟、姐或妹)
  • Many of us hate living in the shadows of a more successful sibling.我们很多人都讨厌活在更为成功的手足的阴影下。
  • Sibling ravalry has been common in this family.这个家里,兄弟姊妹之间的矛盾很平常。
学英语单词
adjustable drive
after hatch
aftereffect
air-bleeder
amount at interest
anethine
anti-bovine
aversive therapy
breezer
brenchley
bruyker
Cape Cod National Seashore
carbonic acid assimilation
cash dividends
Charleroi à Brussels, Can.de
coinsurers
common-mode input voltage range
comonotonic
convertible policy
crossreffed
Cumare
defecation center
demarchs
demeshing
dial pulse
dislocation scattering mobility
dispensatism
earthing cable
egg character
end-of-terrace
fibrous mor
firing sector
flank
flogel
focus current
fore-cooler
going concern assumption
grouting gantry
hammer sth home
hieroglyphick
i-thave
interactive tool
intracytoplasmic sperm injection
jury of executive opinion
Killuminati
leathered steering
liquor sodii arsenatis
local stress relief heat treatment
macula retinae
man productivity
megagametophyte
Methampyrone
microcoulometric titration
mining group
minority interest income
miscalculating
mu-meson
no longer pipe, no longer dance
oil of cardamom
overt provocation
palaeohydrologic
peening of welding
perceptual vigilance
pneumocephalus
pre-heating
pro-UK
Prof
protorosaurian
public deliberation
Puccinellia pamirica
randle-balk
receive punishment
reformatting
religious doctrines
sagittarids
seminal cup
shoulder-mounteds
signal rocket
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sinopec
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taper shank bridge reamer
technometry
Thelotremataceae
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tilting type
total ozone mapping spectrometer (toms)
trajectory estimation
transportation emergency
trochlear palsy
Tundzha(Tunca)
tussyllage
twin-side heading method
uncombated
under-performings
unordered partition
vocables
warm-heartedness
wheeled loader