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
afm
antichoicer
approved cable
arc furnace emergency switch
Arianizes
assembly automation
attendant ship
aufait
back-tunneling
basimglurant
beltrame
Braine-le-Comte
cacodes
caliber compass
care-givers
castniid
cerargyrite(kerargyrite)
cerithium echinatus
chest-bursters
concrete reactor
Couvinian
crystallization of sucrose
dairyman's itch
deep pool
dispoped
DTMS
edge cutter
effective core
electrochemiluminescent
engineering change
environmental carcinogen
equivale
flateous
full file management
gain full laws
gamsa
gridding algorithm
HAKUTOBO
handcard
Hardap Reg.
hocus-pocusing
I.Q.
intravenous anesthetic
konigsberg
leninghausii
lgende
ligamentum suspensorium
linear phase shift
local discard policy
Lungro
melanate
methylthiobenzoic
microstylis monophyllos lindl.
minimum threshold power
mocvd coating
neodymium addition
non-terminated
nonseparable
Novhorod
oil production brigade
optuss
painted
paraffined paper conenser
plastic volumetric strain
pointwise ergodic theorem
Poland sequence
polhode cone
Populus pekinensis
pre inlet valve
present value approach
primary control position
primitia
radiator brush guard
regauges
rehydrate
rubrum
salicet
sand product
Schmidt-Lantermann's incisures
second-level access
set of residuals
shell auger
shrimp meat grading
stacked-up
standard molar gibbs free energy
supply on moderate terms
t.vs
Taroum
technical study
timeworker
TSH
turbulent fluid
two-color thermometer
unhable
untight
viscous flow region
warp clay
WCET
Weber's sign
weighting operation
xte
zone compression