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
a pearl of wisdom
absolute permutivity
adligans
air conditioned passenger car
battoe
breadth moulded
capillary pyrite
cell potential transducer
channel regulation
Code Width
corkscrew force
crossover joint
cryergy
Csanadpalota
cum-catcher
cummulative metering
debrancher
desaurator
devaricate
diaminobenzidine tetrahydrochloride
Diken
distoaxio-occlusal
double-immunofluorescence
drinking horns
dry-basis
erps cupola
error trapping
Eugenia
event reported to
fentel
ferrosilicon alloy
former winding
front mounted flywheel
funklike
getaway sticks
graded sediments
granulifusus niponicus
HAA (high angle of attack)
handfishes
helwingia japonica taiwaniana
hexynoic acid
high frequency flaw detection
immane
in a monastic silence
informational power
inoxidzable coating
input/output scheduling
invisible infringement
iodobismuthite sodium
iron-haematoxylin
japchae
jet coaster
Luzon Str.
matter of fact
measured day rate plan
Medicine Bow Mountains
mesohigh
mintmarks
Monowe
motorcaravans
nearest neighbo(u)r pattern classification
negative effects
nixtamalizing
not ready for data
nursing aesthetics
ogoneks
orthodeoxia
peases
pentacarboxylic acid
playspaces
Polypathy
prismata adamantina
put sb. in the corner
Quanaru, I.
rated static transverse force
reactivity coefficient of the fuel temperature
redisguising
rhesian
right - click menu
Saracenism
ship building
side drive
slate board
smallmouthed black basses
spherulin
spurious transmitter output inband
sukhooei
system service program
table-leaf
tayman
tcxture
thirtythree
toly
tortoise-shells
traffic bound
Tsivil'skiy Rayon
two-pipe hot water downfeed system
unitlike
upper pole piece
vhs
Waddell
woods for or pole telegraph-post