时间:2018-12-12 作者:英语课 分类:华尔街中级英语


英语课

1. –My, You are a professionally trained marriage guidance counselor 1. Could you describe your work?
-Yes, we deal with any type of relationship issue that comes our way. We used to
deal with marriages, but 1990s obviously reflect a change in the way behaviors are,
and very much now, people are cohabiting rather than marrying. And,  therefore, open our doors to anybody who is in a relationship where things are difficult. So our
work is focused on either relationship breakdowns 3 or marital 4 breakdowns in the hope
that we can either help people to reconcile or help them to separate without too
much animosity and with more understanding.


2. The breakdown 2 of marriage in Britain is about 33,34%, well higher than any other European country. With in fact, that’s first marriages, 50% of second marriages breaking down.


How long have you been doing this sort of work?
-I’ve been involved in counseling now for 8 years.
-What sort of qualifications do you need to do what you do as a profession?
-For counseling, you don’t actually need any formal qualifications, but the actual selection procedure is extremely stringent 5. It’s a two year training.



1 counselor
n.顾问,法律顾问
  • The counselor gave us some disinterested advice.顾问给了我们一些无私的忠告。
  • Chinese commercial counselor's office in foreign countries.中国驻国外商务参赞处。
2 breakdown
n.垮,衰竭;损坏,故障,倒塌
  • She suffered a nervous breakdown.她患神经衰弱。
  • The plane had a breakdown in the air,but it was fortunately removed by the ace pilot.飞机在空中发生了故障,但幸运的是被王牌驾驶员排除了。
3 breakdowns
n.分解( breakdown的名词复数 );衰竭;(车辆或机器的)损坏;统计分析
  • Her old car was unreliable, so the trip was plagued by breakdowns. 她的旧车老不听使唤,一路上总是出故障。 来自辞典例句
  • How do we prevent these continual breakdowns? 我们如何防止这些一再出现的故障? 来自辞典例句
4 marital
adj.婚姻的,夫妻的
  • Her son had no marital problems.她的儿子没有婚姻问题。
  • I regret getting involved with my daughter's marital problems;all its done is to bring trouble about my ears.我后悔干涉我女儿的婚姻问题, 现在我所做的一切将给我带来无穷的烦恼。
5 stringent
adj.严厉的;令人信服的;银根紧的
  • Financiers are calling for a relaxation of these stringent measures.金融家呼吁对这些严厉的措施予以放宽。
  • Some of the conditions in the contract are too stringent.合同中有几项条件太苛刻。
学英语单词
angle variable
arrived weight
aspect-oriented programming
Asplenium montanum
atxes
awaitest
beginning of astronomical morning twilight
black cutworm
bottom outlet gate
Cabezamesada
calumet
Cape crawfish
coeliorrhaphy
complete solid solution
condition of measurement
consular privileges
continuous-wave laser (cwl)
criminal knowledge
dardick
day bed
delimiter transfer table
demon dance (s. india)
direct variable cost
dormant scales
double grating spectrograph
drum-majorette
EEMG
electronic mail header fields
enorganic
feathery microshrinkage
fire-code
full team
Gjoa Haven
hexamethylenamin
high frequency paramagnetism
homogeneous equation
honeycomb lattice
i487
industrial goods
instrumentation airplane
internal distribution
irreducible polynomial
karfi
Kefa Kifle Hāger
lairets
lexis-nexis
life elements
loop pattern
lubricating oil consumption rate
macroglossum poecilum
Maineville
maris complaisants
McCarroll Peak
nanocomputing
network with insulated neutral
nitrided case
nutcracking
once-happy
open mine
opheodrys vernaliss
overdream
overguilty
Pabellón, Cérro
paperworks
paraesthesias
parallel partitioning
parameter-dependent operator
pittocks
planarioid
Presley, Elvis
private lesson
prostatic disorder
questionnaires method
request program(me)
roughhousing
San Andreas Fault
scrimish
seal with
sharp-pointeds
sinuscope
skate on thin ice
skip philosophy
slow burning wire
Spanish furnish
SPECT
spring festival couplets
Stokes flow
straight deposit
table corduroy
take stage
three-arm protractor
throw oneself at someone's head
topicalise
tribulate
two dimensional gel electrophore-sis
twyman and gerrn interferometer
underinvoicing
upsilon meson
uvda
vamoosed
virgultum
will oneself into contentment