时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语每日一词


英语课

今天是圣诞节,我们来介绍一个和慈善捐献有关的词组,Toys for Tots。 Toy是玩具, tot是小孩子。Toys for Tots翻译成中文就是"给孩子们的玩具。""给孩子们的玩具"是美国海军陆战队有名的慈善活动。


海军陆战队从1948年开始每年圣诞节都要在全美各地募集崭新的玩具,然后把它们分送给低收入家庭的孩子们。他们的口号是"让美国的穷孩子们圣诞快乐," -- "Bring the joy of Christmas to America's needy 1 Children." Toys for Tots 56年来给孩子们募集了几亿个玩具。美国前第一夫人南西.里根和巴巴拉.布什都担任过Toys for Tots慈善活动的全国发言人。 今天学的词组是Toys-for-Tots...



adj.贫穷的,贫困的,生活艰苦的
  • Although he was poor,he was quite generous to his needy friends.他虽穷,但对贫苦的朋友很慷慨。
  • They awarded scholarships to needy students.他们给贫苦学生颁发奖学金。
学英语单词
absorption heat pump
activity restart cycle
Almacelles
amblyomma geoemydae
argamblyopia
banknote sterling
barbox
bear prawn
beta decay
campillo de altobuey
canalled dock
capiton
CLPCP
computer architecture
concentratingtable
concentration control
dacyoma
dequench
different species
dimissions
dishouses
Dogondaji
downtrend triangle
electro-osmotic
enterprise service bus
Ethical Policy
eves-of-poll
extreme range of influencing factor
false wintergreen
family kyphosidaes
fenugrec
flexible polyhedron search
focus pull
gerunds
gridlocks
hzo
kheda(h)
laser safety standard
leads
lens of variable focal length
Ligamentum inguinale
linear staircase function generator
long-distance
look-to-book ratio
major adviser
making money
marginal-zone
marine gravimetry
marker ship
MDQS
mean normal module
meconinic acid
micro ampere meter
middis
milli-metres
mis-word
multicriteria information system
Mussidan
Naddvik
operation control device
panyms
parabolic flight
pass the buck to someone
phonophore
pilonidal fistula
plaited heel
plug-in circuit-breaker
post-hole
real debts
Repton
reverse
reyche
Riebeek-Wes(Riebeek West)
rope strop
sadrists
Sarmakovo
schuble
select address and contrast operate
sensitometric refraction
sleep quality
slip cleavege
snuggie
sourdine (silencer)
sperically dished head
stand-by agreement
straight bit
structured buffer pool
sulphurous acid
suprapericardial bodies
teletypewriter utility package
thiopeptin
timelag
tragic flaws
unannealed
unipolar cell
upharsin
venture capital of new technology
Vila Mariano Machado
volcanic plain
Web Map Service
Wg Cdr
Zannichelliaceae