时间:2018-12-29 作者:英语课 分类:英语课程学习计划和讲义


英语课

National High Five Day is on the third Thursday of April every year. This unusual holiday started at the University of Virginia in the USA in 2002. Since then, it has slowly grown in popularity 1 around America. It is also spreading to different countries around the world. The day celebrates one of America’s invented gestures of the twentieth century. It is a common part of life in America today and around the world when people have something they want to jointly 2 celebrate. You most often see it in sport, when two teammates will raise their arms and give each other’s hands a slap. Television has spread the gesture everywhere and you can see it wherever you go in the world. Both men and women use it to celebrate.


The High Five website speculates 3 that the gesture started with an American basketball player called Mont Skeets, one of the greatest players ever to play for Murray State University. Legend has it that when Mont was three years old, his father’s army friends would visit. They were all from the 5th infantry 4 division. The young Mont didn’t know their names so would greet them by saying “Hi, Five”. The former soldiers replied by slapping Mont’s up-stretched arm. When Mont grew up and started playing basketball, he adapted his greeting to use it with his teammates when they got points. The “Hi, Five” became a “high five” and the celebration became contagious 5. In a short space of time it had spread throughout the basketball world.



n.普及,流行,名望,受欢迎
  • The story had an extensive popularity among American readers.这本小说在美国读者中赢得广泛的声望。
  • Our product enjoys popularity throughout the world.我们的产品饮誉全球。
ad.联合地,共同地
  • Tenants are jointly and severally liable for payment of the rent. 租金由承租人共同且分别承担。
  • She owns the house jointly with her husband. 她和丈夫共同拥有这所房子。
思索,猜测,推测( speculate的第三人称单数 ); 投机
  • And then look at the way he speculates in government bonds: huh! 他又要做公债——哼! 来自子夜部分
  • Cameron defends Cole and House speculates that she wants to control him. Cameron保护Cole,House推测她想控制他。
n.[总称]步兵(部队)
  • The infantry were equipped with flame throwers.步兵都装备有喷火器。
  • We have less infantry than the enemy.我们的步兵比敌人少。
adj.传染性的,有感染力的
  • It's a highly contagious infection.这种病极易传染。
  • He's got a contagious laugh.他的笑富有感染力。
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a storm in a teacup
accenty
aestival annual
alanates
American Indian languages
annectant convolution
antihyperglycaemic
asthenic stomach
astron
attenuations
Bacillus paratuberculosis
banked configuration
BH macro
Bischoff's operation
bisexually
bladder neoplasm
bloch band
blown tumbler with intaglio decoration
bony capsule of swim bladder
camouflage net
Chain too taut!
chemical crosslinking
chevee
choice of substitute
clear text
climatic risk analysis
CoA-Transferases
cope and drag set
critical rate of rise of on state current
culpable act
cylindrical post
Data Terminal Ready
draft constant
feniculin
fujimori
full-range transmission
gravity block wire-drawing machine
Gutt. quibusd
high resolution liquid chromatograph
homochiralization
horst-crystal
Hérimoncourt
intermediate capacity
isochronous standardized test distortion
Jerusalem Warriors
jubrans
JUSMAG
keyboard-monitor program
kvashnin
labrisomids
lading port
lect
lhcb
macro-facility assembler
mariya
Mathews' speculum
mock sb's gait
monogynic
Morus atropurpurea
Mount House
multioscillation
neest
once-a-year
oncho-
oosterwijk
overall transmission test
Pappenheimer
parafuchsin
pentaprismo-
pentiti
periaqueductal gray
phase stable range
phosphoranetetroic acid
photo copier
prime commercial paper
pteris tripartita sw.
read/write check indicator
refractory periods
ressembler
Rimitsid
screw with straight-line
security access
segmentize
self-regulating fuel pump
shortcrust (pastry)
shriekest
simplemicroscope
Sindong
spiral yarn
stock companies
strawberries and cream
surrender of fugitive
szent-gyorgyis
tachyaphalite
to have a good innings
tonologies
tricolour emulsion
two engine nacelle
unwax
vocalis rimae
whole-words
wind-screen