时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:英语时差8,16


英语课

 Accountants “People say Britain is run by accountants, is that true? ” Let’s find out. Here’s Alex MacDermot, who works for a charity. I wouldn’t say we are run by accountants, but they do an important job. In a sense it’s true, because all of the major decisions to do with government and the way that the country’s going is governed by affordability 1 these days. So a lot of ideas are now scrutinised to see if they’re financially viable 2 and I think that’s probably true. Yeah. Helen: So Julia agrees that accountants are responsible for the way in which Britain is being run at the moment. Now, I’m not sure how well Alex’s comment will go down with the accountants. Here he is describing what a typical accountant would be like. They’d be good with numbers, not willing to break the rules, fairly conservative, normally wearing a suit and a bowler 3 hat I would suppose. Quite straight-laced people, quite boring people, that’s my perception anyway. Helen: That’s why trainee 4 accountant Manpreet was keen to dispel 5 the typical stereotype 6. Is he a boring person? Definitely not, because I’m doing my accountancy qualification and when I’m away from finance, I’m a DJ, I write poetry, I write lyrics 7 to songs and I work for radio as well. So you know I’m an accountant and I try to be as creative as possible. So I think that is… that’s not true. Helen: So this shows that people need to change their perception of accountants.



1 affordability
可购性
  • Performance-Based Logistics Affordability: Can We Afford Categorical Conversion to Performance-Based Acquisition? 基于性能的后期的可承受性:能否担负得起向基于性能的采办的无条件的转变?
  • There would be no crisis of affordability, as't for food or clothing. 就想食物与服装一样,因为供给没有危机。
2 viable
adj.可行的,切实可行的,能活下去的
  • The scheme is economically viable.这个计划从经济效益来看是可行的。
  • The economy of the country is not viable.这个国家经济是难以维持的。
3 bowler
n.打保龄球的人,(板球的)投(球)手
  • The bowler judged it well,timing the ball to perfection.投球手判断准确,对球速的掌握恰到好处。
  • The captain decided to take Snow off and try a slower bowler.队长决定把斯诺撤下,换一个动作慢一点的投球手试一试。
4 trainee
n.受训练者
  • The trainee checked out all right on his first flight.受训者第一次飞行完全合格。
  • Few of the trainee footballers make it to the top.足球受训人员中没有几个能达到顶级水平。
5 dispel
vt.驱走,驱散,消除
  • I tried in vain to dispel her misgivings.我试图消除她的疑虑,但没有成功。
  • We hope the programme will dispel certain misconceptions about the disease.我们希望这个节目能消除对这种疾病的一些误解。
6 stereotype
n.固定的形象,陈规,老套,旧框框
  • He's my stereotype of a schoolteacher.他是我心目中的典型教师。
  • There's always been a stereotype about successful businessmen.人们对于成功商人一直都有一种固定印象。
7 lyrics
n.歌词
  • music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hart 由罗杰斯和哈特作词作曲
  • The book contains lyrics and guitar tablatures for over 100 songs. 这本书有100多首歌的歌词和吉他奏法谱。
学英语单词
absorbeate
acoustical behavior
anachronistical
announce a call
anterior chamber paracentesis knife
appear in installments
automatic test equipment complex
banding wire
Bao Son
base-conductivity modulation
between them
blemisht
block busting
Bosanski Brod
calcium methoxide
CAPP
chemistry class
chillinesses
chromatographic study
coke-pig iron
Collado Hermoso
comparative reading test
cortinate
costodiaphragmatic recess
coupled channel Born approximation
cypraea eglantina
deadmam mt.
deboshed
descetyllanatoside
dibenzyl aniline
dichromatic
dried out
enfiladings
escribes
Euclidean planes
flip card
fluffiest
foreign exchange capital account
formylglutathione
forward photoelectric effect
fractional programming
free intonation
ginzburg landau equation
gravitational assist
hatch cover ramp
haworths
helminthagogus
Helotes
inhibit sb from
insured interest
intraoral examination
joycexperience
light loss
lycopodium selagoes
material feed rate
mouse eared chickweed
Neottianthe ovata
nonserialized
on her mind
on the stroke of
Order of Distrait
peevers
Plagiotricha
Polygonum limicola
polystyrene (ps) foam
pretherapy
pull the wool over sb eyes
re-expanded
remote batch job
restraining moment
ridges bicipital
Rosetta Stoned
rotary filter
rotating pump
ruricolists
self coupling
Senna surattensis
settlement options
shaft of tibia
shakebuckler
silicon-based inoculant
soapies
sodium margarite
squirage
standard of behavior
subrepresentation
suffounge
Tebessa
theologized
theory of relation between heaven and mankind
thereinafter
thiopyruvic acid
tolerability
Treasury Direct
trousseau
unbore
underground main
up-patient
Valdivians
wait-state controller
whip sth into shape
wifeliest