时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:新视野大学英语:视听说教程 1


英语课

Task 3: Halloween

Some people really enjoy Christmas, or Valentine’s Day, or Easter, or have a huge family reunion

or barbecue on the Fourth of July. Some people look forward to stuffing 1 themselves with turkey

every year on Thanksgiving. Great as those are, they don’t compare with my favorite. I LOVE

Halloween! Why Halloween? Well, Halloween is the night of the year when we can all get dressed

up as someone else, pretend 2 and let our imaginations run wild. Even adults get a free pass to go

back to their childhood and become that kid still inside all of us. It’s also the one night of the year

when we get to shine light on the dark, and confront 3 monsters, ghosts, witches 4, and all things

dead. We get to confront our biggest fears, as both children and adults, and reassure 5 ourselves that

there’s really no reason to be afraid of things we see at night.

Christmas     Thanksgiving      dressed      imaginations      adults      childhood

shine         confront          dead        reassure          at night

 



1 stuffing
n.填充物vt.填充(stuff的现在分词)
  • We had a chicken and stuffing, and new potatoes from the garden. 我们吃了只百宝鸡,还有园子里种的新鲜马铃薯。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She had already mixed the stuffing for the dumplings. 她已经把饺子馅和好了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2 pretend
vt.假装,假托,装扮;vi.假装,装作
  • So you don't need to pretend,do you?所以你不必装假了,对吧?
  • Many people pretend that they understand modern art.许多人装着自己懂得现代艺术。
3 confront
vt.遭遇,勇敢地面对,正视,使对质
  • A soldier has to confront danger.士兵须面对危险。
  • We must confront future with optimism.我们必须乐观地面对未来。
4 witches
n.女巫,巫婆( witch的名词复数 );讨人嫌的丑女人v.女巫,巫婆( witch的第三人称单数 );讨人嫌的丑女人
  • Witches used to be burned at the stake. 巫婆过去要被处以火刑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Witches ain't got no power in the daytime." 巫婆白天是没有法力的。” 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
5 reassure
v.使放心,使消除疑虑
  • This seemed to reassure him and he continued more confidently.这似乎使他放心一点,于是他更有信心地继续说了下去。
  • The airline tried to reassure the customers that the planes were safe.航空公司尽力让乘客相信飞机是安全的。
学英语单词
abbite
acrometer for brine
amarus
ammonium alginate
antarctic expedition
Bahramtapa
bathward
Bleicherode
blekingseka
Borrow, George Henry
bulk grain feeder
calcium channel blocker
carbon disulphide
cathode grid lens
chairman of the foreign exchange and trade commission
coloured noise
compaction-pile method
cortex sloughing off
counter-letter
covered money
creamed mushroom soup
crt's
cruising level
data direction register
dayboy
Deansboro
differentiatory
dimaprit
disciplinatory
drug research
electric pedestal grinder
electroncoupled
en revanche
Evening Breeze
expressed in Hong Kong dollar
extensiometer
extrusion mouding
fasciculus occipitofrontalis inferior
fiftieth-normal
film dubbing
Finlay process
fogram
functionalism
general file translator
handle without gloves
hemorrhoidal veins
heterophemies
Hiberno-Celtic
hockey skates
Hokah
homem
ifsa
John Hyrcanus I
kaj
knowledge space
leonidov
level of aspiration
Ligueil
Limanda ferruginea
macroion
marginal spot
mycosterin
nasopalatine nerves
nondimorphic
nutria
nymphectomy
on speaking terms with
overcapitalized
petroleum engineer
pleasure - seeker
potash anorthoclase
prebasic molt
property of air mass
rasterelement
reattains
reliability of audit evidence
reminds
replication process
right landing gear well
rolling drawing
rr. occipitales (a. occipitalis)
sarcasticness
schobers
sclerochronological
secular humanisms
segregation constant
single man
slow speed signal
sominex
sonar model
splendency
splitting(simpson 1944)
the time is up
to let down
topias
triddle
trinitrophenal poisoning
Uman'
value assurance
weale away
winter moderate climate
wolbachias