时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(七)月


英语课

   If you haven't already pickd up on the trend from all the whining 1 on Bravo's Princesses Long Island, marriage rates in America are at an all-time low. And the medium age at which women do say 'I do'is now 27, the highest it's been in the century. That's according to a new report by Bowling 2 Green State University's Julissa Crupz, published by the national center for family and marriage research. In the 1920s, 92 women walked down the aisle 3 each year per thousand of single women of marrying age. Today, it's a third that. Marriage rates were expected to plateau in the wake of the baby boom. But so far, they just keeping dropping. Apparently 4, many college educated women are simply putting off getting hitched 5. And many black women might be foregoing it altogether. Because while every enthic group has seen a drop in the proportion of married women since the 50s, it's dipped lowest for black women, just 26% of whom are married. In the UK and most of Europe, the average age for women tying the knot is already more than 30. And if Long Island's reality stars are an indicator 6, we're soon to follow.



1 whining
n.保龄球运动
  • Bowling is a popular sport with young and old.保龄球是老少都爱的运动。
  • Which sport do you 1ike most,golf or bowling?你最喜欢什么运动,高尔夫还是保龄球?
2 aisle
n.(教堂、教室、戏院等里的)过道,通道
  • The aisle was crammed with people.过道上挤满了人。
  • The girl ushered me along the aisle to my seat.引座小姐带领我沿着通道到我的座位上去。
3 apparently
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
4 hitched
(免费)搭乘他人之车( hitch的过去式和过去分词 ); 搭便车; 攀上; 跃上
  • They hitched a ride in a truck. 他们搭乘了一辆路过的货车。
  • We hitched a ride in a truck yesterday. 我们昨天顺便搭乘了一辆卡车。
5 indicator
n.指标;指示物,指示者;指示器
  • Gold prices are often seen as an indicator of inflation.黃金价格常常被看作是通货膨胀的指标。
  • His left-hand indicator is flashing.他左手边的转向灯正在闪亮。
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Actifedon
airs-to-surface missile
balanced elevator
BCNS
biatomic
Bolshevize, bolshevized
bolster suture
bonacci
by thumb
can't help oneself
cater
Charlotte Bay
chooseable
chronic laryngotracheitis
coal yard
cooling noise
cross liability
democratises
deneutralize
density of coal zone
dipole electric sounding
disusing
Double Headed Shot Cays
easies-on-the-eye
Elihu Yale
end-of-the-summer
engineering ship
excommunicative
exponential integral function
flatlining
flux ingredient
forage seed breeding farm
foundation class
geniculum nervi facialis
glass metallic melter
goody-goodies
ground looping
hatchet face
hoplomaladera monticola monticola
huckstress
in accordance with
intermittent manufacturing
kerins
liquid smoke
look over your shoulder
m-RNA
mind-cure
mobile crane with lattice jib
multiple statically indeterminate truss
multiple time scale
nanpie
natural steam source
Nd-Fe-B alloys
nodular castiron
object-glass
off normal position
oversprung
paleoethnobotanist
percy graingers
phenological succession
physostigmine salicylate
pre-transmit-receive tube
product trapped in seam
pyg
quarry bay
quasi-stational
rain effects wheel
reenforce
regulating notch
rest-position
reverse migration
rideau
Russian-Canadian
Salina, Isola
sand and slag inclusions
Sedum filipes
self energizing brake
shank of a hook
six-and-a-half
slopsellers
sloughiest
steel plate conveyor
steel turnbuckle
streptokinases
strip-shows
sulfur liberating accelerator
synchronous motor clock
tap changing
TDV
Tertiary system
thymopsyche
tin(iv) bromide
tiple
tons per centimeter immersion
torque converter lever
total ossicular replacement prosthesis
trigeminals
uranium monophosphide
vaginalotomy
volendams
work to grade
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