时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:最新15篇文章贯通英语四级词汇


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[00:00.00]Megan had attended secondary school

[00:03.60]at a private girls'school

[00:05.67]five hundred kilometers from home.

[00:08.52]In junior school she had

[00:10.81]been a straight A student.

[00:12.79]Now in high school

[00:14.43]she continued to study hard,

[00:16.07]play sports, join the school orchestra,

[00:20.66]plus a variety of school clubs.

[00:23.07]As a joke, her friends

[00:25.37]labeled her a genius,

[00:27.12]often just to make her angry.

[00:28.76]As well as being

[00:31.06]a high academic achiever

[00:33.13]she had a great capacity for fun.

[00:36.20]She thrived on

[00:38.17]an active social life.

[00:40.03]Slender, pretty and vivacious 1,

[00:42.76]she was the apple

[00:44.51]of her parents’ eye.

[00:47.24]Every year in accordance with

[00:49.88]school policy, a student candidate

[00:52.06]was chosen to travel and

[00:53.70]live in another commonwealth 2 country

[00:56.76]for six months.

[00:58.84]As Megan had an interest

[01:00.92]in a diplomatic career

[01:03.11]after completing university,

[01:04.87]she figured she would be

[01:06.28]considered a prime applicant 3

[01:08.03]if she applied 4 for the position.

[01:10.55]A detailed 5 essay was necessary

[01:13.17]to provide the committee

[01:15.69]with a clear idea of her intention.

[01:17.88]The selection committee would

[01:21.60]spend a fortnight reviewing

[01:23.25]the applications in an attempt

[01:26.30]to identify the ideal student.

[01:29.37]Megan also needed to undergo

[01:32.11]a rigorous personal interview,

[01:34.84]which would validate 6 her academic background

[01:37.57]and evaluate her general behavior.

[01:40.64]The interview proceeded well,

[01:44.69]Megan taking the initiative

[01:47.64]to underline her strengths.

[01:49.72]After school some of her friends

[01:53.11]gathered for coffee

[01:54.86]in the cafe  near the school.

[01:56.94]They confessed to Megan that

[01:59.23]they were rather envious 7 of

[02:01.21]the opportunity she might have

[02:03.40]to live in another country.

[02:05.80]They enquired 8 about

[02:08.97]the details of the interview.

[02:10.84]Two weeks later Megan received

[02:13.46]a phone call notifying her of

[02:15.32]the successful results of the interview



1 vivacious
adj.活泼的,快活的
  • She is an artless,vivacious girl.她是一个天真活泼的女孩。
  • The picture has a vivacious artistic conception.这幅画气韵生动。
2 commonwealth
n.共和国,联邦,共同体
  • He is the chairman of the commonwealth of artists.他是艺术家协会的主席。
  • Most of the members of the Commonwealth are nonwhite.英联邦的许多成员国不是白人国家。
3 applicant
n.申请人,求职者,请求者
  • He was the hundredth applicant for the job. 他是第100个申请这项工作的人。
  • In my estimation, the applicant is well qualified for this job. 据我看, 这位应征者完全具备这项工作的条件。
4 applied
adj.应用的;v.应用,适用
  • She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
  • This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。
5 detailed
adj.详细的,详尽的,极注意细节的,完全的
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。
6 validate
vt.(法律)使有效,使生效
  • You need an official signature to validate the order.你要有正式的签字,这张汇票才能生效。
  • In order to validate the agreement,both parties sign it.为使协议有效,双方在上面签了字。
7 envious
adj.嫉妒的,羡慕的
  • I don't think I'm envious of your success.我想我并不嫉妒你的成功。
  • She is envious of Jane's good looks and covetous of her car.她既忌妒简的美貌又垂涎她的汽车。
8 enquired
打听( enquire的过去式和过去分词 ); 询问; 问问题; 查问
  • He enquired for the book in a bookstore. 他在书店查询那本书。
  • Fauchery jestingly enquired whether the Minister was coming too. 浮式瑞嘲笑着问部长是否也会来。
学英语单词
adjourn for
Ahamed
air turborocket engine
amino-acid reagent
anchor bolt nut
asymmetric circuit element
bent beam ionization gauge
bicomponent composite fibre
big smile
blood crisis
bobbitts
booze artists
bumfucks
burgi
cash budget
Chobienia
clastobryopsis brevinervis
cock-horses
colloid adenocarcinom
colour data
current trend
dendrophis
dissociation energy
docufantasies
Dracunculoidea
element interface
faired cable
feather pulling
ferraboscoes
ferriprotoporphyrin
formimido ether
get hooked
glowstick
gonzaga
grease-proofness
growth in place theory
gunpowder r.
haloalkene
head of metatarsal bone
hindu-nationalists
hourte
hydraulic speed controller
iey
inces
indigo pure powder
infantile eczema
interdisciplinary theory
irritative lesion
kataplexy
keep in the pin
Koukourou
krinein
Lancia Rally
leading-out grounding
Lengfurt
LET (linear energy transfer)
leucomethylene blue
limeback
locking tweezer
long distance carrier cable
magnetoferroelectricity
manganese in urine
master history file
MCFLM
methonium compounds
mid-point method
nervi scrotales posteriores
non-obstante
O'Flaherty
Oyo State
parabolic conoid shell
petstore.com
Pinturas, R.
pipe sampler
pit-bottom primary substation room
priority method
Probsteierhagen
procedural rendering
pseudy
rache
readds
relief elements
Rhodesian redwater fever
Ruatapu
Rémuzat
salvatore
San Teodoro
semiactive homing guidance
shake-down theory
sodium cinnamylate
sulcus medianus posterior medullae spinalis
tangmere
tetragonal pyramid of the third order
tetramethylphenylenediamine
thermo-optical property
tralucency
transbasal
under-seat
unrenewed
vectocardiography
vincis
vocalise