时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

   我们之前一直说和老外聊天的时候有一个很禁忌很私人的问题,那就是你不能问老外“你赚多少钱?” 有人说美国农民都赚的比中国白领多;有人说美国经济垮啦每个人都欠了一屁股债。那美国人究竟转多少钱呢?今天潘吉Jenny告诉你!


  听力提示:
  1. misunderstanding 误解
  2. national average 国家平均值
  3. median income 中等收入
  4. median household income 中等家庭收入: around 40,000 maybe 43,000 dollars per year 大概一年四万到四万三美金
  5. rural 乡村的
  6. One important thing to remember is that New York City, and like California, especially San Francisco are very expensive. They are not average.
  要记住很重要的一点就是,纽约,以及加利福尼亚特别是旧金山是非常贵的城市。他们不是中等水平。
  7. exception 例外
  8. LA(Los Angeles) 洛杉矶
  9. full-time 1 job 全职工作: also around 40, 000 dollars per year 也是一年4万美金
  10. If your major is computer science, engineering, you probably have a higher salary. 如果你是计算机或工程专业的,你的薪水可能会高一些。
  And if your major is philosophy or music.... 不过如果你是学哲学或是音乐的....
  11. salary prospect 2 薪资前景
  12. Liberal Arts 文科
  13. Tax 税
  income tax 个人所得税
  state tax 州税
  federal tax 联邦税
  14. Florida! There's no state tax. 像佛罗里达州就没有州税。
  15. public education 公共教育
  16. Well, if you make more than 100,000, say you make six figures.
  如果你年薪超过十万美金,也就是赚到六位数。
  17. 100,000 is really upper-middle class. But if you make you know 200 thousand, 250 thousand, 300 thousand, then you could say that you're rich.
  年薪十万只能算中高层阶级。不过如果你赚个20万,25万,30万美金,你可以说你是有钱人。
  If you're in California, maybe not. Sorry. ;) 不过如果你在加州,这也不算有钱。不好意思啦。
  18. best-paying job 最高薪的职业
  19. Because in medicine, there are so many kinds of specialists. 因为在医疗界,有许多不同的专家。
  radiologist 放射科医生: $300,000-$500,000
  anaesthesiologist 麻醉师
  pediatrician 儿科医生
  20. Richest guys are:
  investment banker 投资银行家
  entrepreneur 企业家
  21. It's complicated. 太复杂了很难说清啊。

1 full-time
adj.满工作日的或工作周的,全时间的
  • A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
  • I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顾家庭又要全天工作,我不知道她是如何对付的。
2 prospect
n.前景,前途;景色,视野
  • This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
  • The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。
学英语单词
abstraction tool
aggests
aluminum silicate
anti-apray
appellative function
arcury
arrival and departure sidings
badshots
basic gravimetric point
Bol'shoye Gorodishche
bucins
calcifediol
Caras-Severin
carbocoal tar
ceruminoma
chemistry reaction
coasting braking test
collineation mapping
continuous retort furnace
copying-pencil
core tray
counterpropagating waves
cristicole
cubic measures
definition structure
difference thresholds
dorsal medial nerve of second toe
double-sided impeller
dropping gloves
echiuroidea
fifty pence
floating-point slave accelerator
fork luncheon
glutamyls
gnag type
gumwoods
hallucar
high-explosive ammunition
high-pressure torch
home-spun
homeomorphic spaces
hyperon atom
illustrative diagram
immunofluorescence microscopy
initial provisioning
integral governor
interaction psychology
jug
kebnekaises
King Christian I.
life leasehold
lip-synced
lordotically
main performance index
margin loans outstanding
microfunctional circuit
miswrest
molest
nightclubbing
off-stage
outward voyage
overaccumulations
paleoviruses
Parachampionella rankanensis
pebbly mudstone
permafrost dynamics
Petzval sum
photoelasticity technique
pneumatic transport placer
position signal
proalcools
process development
Prout's hypothesis
pseudo-gout
Puerto Coig
punkey
quasi-equivalent
relative turgidity
representative computing
rock crushing strength
serviter
sleeper plate
smelling therapy
strip-extraction
tell kotchek (tall kuchik as saghir)
the cool
the FOMC
thyreohyoideus
Tindal/Tindale, William
totah
translocator
trickles
TSSR
tunica adnata oculi
two-thread chain stitch
user interrupt service routine
Vasoverin
vein of cochlear aqueduct
wavells
wind spring