时间:2018-12-29 作者:英语课 分类:英语课程学习计划和讲义


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Buy Nothing Day is a great way of reminding yourself you don’t need to go shopping. In today’s world, most of us buy too much, too often. There is really no need for us to buy half the stuff 1 we purchase. In fact, make that three-quarters, or even nine-tenths. Shopping has become an addiction  for many people. Companies are experts at making us buy stuff. TV and Internet ads can even make us buy things we don’t really want. There is a well-known bumper 2 sticker that says: “When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.” I would say only foolish people go shopping to reduce their stress. Anyway, Buy Nothing Day is a fantastic way to avoid crowded stores, save some money (for once) and spend time wisely.


Lots of ideas on how to spend this day are on the www.buynothingday.org website. Here, you learn that you actually help save our planet 3 by not going shopping. You consume 4 less and this means we use fewer of Earth’s resources. We easily run out of money when we go shopping, but we can also run out of our planet’s animals, forests, water and a lot more. The website suggests you lock your credit 5 card away for the day and keep your cash under the bed. You will not be alone. The website says: “Buy Nothing Day is the biggest 24-hour [campaign] against consumerism. People around the world will make a pact 6 to take a break from shopping as a personal experiment or public statement. And the best thing is, it’s free."



n.原料,材料,东西;vt.填满;吃饱
  • We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
  • He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。
n.(汽车上的)保险杠;adj.特大的,丰盛的
  • The painting represents the scene of a bumper harvest.这幅画描绘了丰收的景象。
  • This year we have a bumper harvest in grain.今年我们谷物丰收。
n.行星
  • Neptune is the furthest planet from the sun. 海王星是离太阳最远的行星。
  • Rubbish, however, is only part of the problem of polluting our planet. 然而, 垃圾只是我们这个星球的污染问题的一个方面。
vt.花费,消费;毁灭;vi.消费掉;枯萎
  • They generally consume more power and take up more space,too.它们通常消耗更多的能量,并且占用更多的空间。
  • The British consume a vast amount of tea each year.英国人每年消费大量的茶叶。
n.信用,荣誉,贷款,学分;v.归功于,赞颂,信任
  • I credit him with a certain amount of sense.我认为他有一定的见识。
  • He got the credit,and we did the dirty work.他得荣誉,我们做不讨好的工作。
n.合同,条约,公约,协定
  • The two opposition parties made an electoral pact.那两个反对党订了一个有关选举的协定。
  • The trade pact between those two countries came to an end.那两国的通商协定宣告结束。
学英语单词
air fixed capacitor
airborne lift
aircraft role equipment
amount of substance concentration
antiquary
arouras
astronomical position finding
backward-rotating wave
bakeprofen
bangiophytes
bellerophontids
bipolaris sacchari
blue vulva
boring machine pillar
brain trusts
burst forming unit
cash-in-transit policy
cisterna
clone trial
CMC
cold-drawn steel wire
conquestor
crossover valve
danida
decay missing filling tooth
delvauxites
diode cathode
direct-fired kettle
error queue element
exit to
fentener
fitsky
gaining access
gd (gravity damper)
hagen-poiseville law
highly contagious
homards
hydraulic hitch system
I'm afraid so
incudectomy
jahn teller effect
Karapiro, L.
leavish
Licq-Athérey
Lolard
low-lipid lipoprotein
Malek Sīāh, Kūh-e
medailles
meroplius fasciculatus
mobilegrease
ms stereo
mugs' games
mus domesticus
muttsy
neutro-saline
not just another pretty face
occupational scheme
oil-well cement
Optional Surcharge
perennialize
pin hole
plexus sympathtici
pneumatic gripping device
point of presence,POP
Preb.
probe a mystery
processus maxillaris (oss. zygomaticus)
pseudocercospora diospyri-morrisianae
renewal of facing
root-rot of conifers (trametes radiciperda r. hartig)
rotating drum relay
Rubber Trade Association Clauses
Saida
Sclaventerol
shell-burst
short-arc lamp
smartdrvs
sorexes
spiropoachysine
spontaneous magnet
springhouse
stereotyped command
stopper
stovepiped
surface heat source
susianas
Suur Munamägi
symboleography
synthetic substances
thermal effusion
tone cluster
tribometric
tuataras
Tumba, L.
two-bank radial engine
unstandardized
urgemeter
vaselike
wall boundary layer
water dressing
water-gas producer
windrower