时间:2019-01-28 作者:英语课 分类:英语博客 A cup of English


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  Beginners.

My children love Scooby-Do. I love Scooby-Do. In fact, I have not met a person who does not like it. The happy gang of friends consists of: Shaggy, Scooby, Wilma, Daphney, and Freddy. They travel around in the 'Mystery Machine' and get into scary escapades. During their adventures, they meet monsters, ghosts, and other creepy creatures who they must try and escape from. It's not too scary, most of the time. The villains 1 always turn out to be people who are dressed up. At the end of each episode, one of the gang unmasks the bad guy. There is always a happy ending. I was a child in the '70's, so I also used to watch the series. And the style of that era is still seen in the dress and music of the famous five. Of course, there is a lot of humor. Shaggy and Scooby-Do are cowards who will only get involved in an investigation 2 if they get 'Scooby snacks'. They eat enormous amounts of food whenever they can, even strangely combined foods, like chocolate covered corn on the cob! Scooby-Do is definitely a staple 3 cartoon for my children. If they fight or are grumpy, I put one of the videos on, and suddenly, everyone is happy.

Grammar notes.

Verbs: To meet (meet, met, met), to try (try, tried, tried), to unmask (reg.), to eat (eat, ate, eaten), to fight (fight, fought, fought).

Related vocabulary: gang, mystery, escapade/adventure, episode, era, famous, to get involved, coward, investigation, staple.

Advanced.

So, what's new Scooby-Do? Have you come across any villains today, maybe a headless snow monster, or a slimey zombie called Creeper? No? Oh, so business is slow, huh? I heard that you solved a mystery last week. It made the headlines. The mayor of a small town decided 4 to stimulate 5 the economy by dressing 6 up as a ghost and terrorizing the townsfolk. It worked. Tourism took a big leap. But a bunch of meddling 7 kids uncovered the scoundrel; he was thrown in jail, and all the recent tourist business unraveled. I admire the skills of your group. You all seem to have the most amazing running abilities. When being chased by monsters, you very rarely get caught. And somehow, you find yourselves running through the longest hallways that I have ever seen. Fifteen doors, outside of each a small table with a plant pot, is the record, I think, that Shaggy and Scooby have run past, before they find an escape. Wow. You must eat a lot of carbohydrates 9 to keep up that pace. Well, yes you do, don't you? I know of a few pharmaceutical 10 companies that would love to bottle your light speed metabolisms 12. Well, if I hear of any hauntings or scary tourist booms, I'll give you a call.

Grammar notes.

Related vocabulary: Villains, scoundrels, zombies, mummies, ghosts, mystery, headlines, unravel 8, ability, escape, carbohydrates, pharmaceutical, metabolism 11.

Verbs:To take a leap. Exs: He took a giant leap over the wall. The company's business took a big leap. She took a leap of faith and asked him to marry her.

To find oneself....Exs: I found myself alone, in the rain, with no transportation. They find themselves in great difficulty each time they use the car. He told me the end of the story; I would like to find it out for myself.



n.恶棍( villain的名词复数 );罪犯;(小说、戏剧等中的)反面人物;淘气鬼
  • The impression of villains was inescapable. 留下恶棍的印象是不可避免的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Some villains robbed the widow of the savings. 有几个歹徒将寡妇的积蓄劫走了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
n.主要产物,常用品,主要要素,原料,订书钉,钩环;adj.主要的,重要的;vt.分类
  • Tea is the staple crop here.本地产品以茶叶为大宗。
  • Potatoes are the staple of their diet.土豆是他们的主要食品。
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
vt.刺激,使兴奋;激励,使…振奋
  • Your encouragement will stimulate me to further efforts.你的鼓励会激发我进一步努力。
  • Success will stimulate the people for fresh efforts.成功能鼓舞人们去作新的努力。
n.(食物)调料;包扎伤口的用品,敷料
  • Don't spend such a lot of time in dressing yourself.别花那么多时间来打扮自己。
  • The children enjoy dressing up in mother's old clothes.孩子们喜欢穿上妈妈旧时的衣服玩。
v.干涉,干预(他人事务)( meddle的现在分词 )
  • He denounced all "meddling" attempts to promote a negotiation. 他斥责了一切“干预”促成谈判的企图。 来自辞典例句
  • They liked this field because it was never visited by meddling strangers. 她们喜欢这块田野,因为好事的陌生人从来不到那里去。 来自辞典例句
v.弄清楚(秘密);拆开,解开,松开
  • He was good with his hands and could unravel a knot or untangle yarn that others wouldn't even attempt.他的手很灵巧,其他人甚至都不敢尝试的一些难解的绳结或缠在一起的纱线,他都能解开。
  • This is the attitude that led him to unravel a mystery that long puzzled Chinese historians.正是这种态度使他解决了长期以来使中国历史学家们大惑不解的谜。
n.碳水化合物,糖类( carbohydrate的名词复数 );淀粉质或糖类食物
  • The plant uses the carbohydrates to make cellulose. 植物用碳水化合物制造纤维素。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • All carbohydrates originate from plants. 所有的碳水化合物均来自植物。 来自辞典例句
adj.药学的,药物的;药用的,药剂师的
  • She has donated money to establish a pharmaceutical laboratory.她捐款成立了一个药剂实验室。
  • We are engaged in a legal tussle with a large pharmaceutical company.我们正同一家大制药公司闹法律纠纷。
n.新陈代谢
  • After years of dieting,Carol's metabolism was completely out of whack.经过数年的节食,卡罗尔的新陈代谢完全紊乱了。
  • All living matter undergoes a process of metabolism.生物都有新陈代谢。
n.新陈代谢( metabolism的名词复数 )
  • Garden snails are evolving slower metabolisms. 花园蜗牛新陈代谢进化缓慢。 来自互联网
  • Elite swimmers tend to be born with certain advantages, such as superefficient metabolisms. 精华的游泳者趋于与某个优点出生,例如superefficient新陈代谢。 来自互联网
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air cooled ceiling
arano
asiemphytus esakii
australe
bakerlike
baltic republics
barges fleet
blueberry muffin lesions
carbon sinks
catbird
character read return
Choragon
clarinettist
colosseums
complementary tree
counter power
crapitalism
cross-linked polyethylene insulated cable
d-wave
detecting power
disposable goods
effect of death
endophyton ramosum
enmuring
etherists
family ciconiidaes
first visible red
firsten
fix upon
follow in the footsteps of
fusedsalt reactor
Gentiana mailingensis
glass mould diode
good-till-cancelled order
green wood
guede (haiti)
guttmacher
half shells
halves
hard labor
helical condenser
hemangioma of granulation tissue
hexagonal rod
higher horizons project
honeycreeper
Hotelling transform feature extraction
inaugural ceremony
inside fire box
insulated interest
integrating spherical densitometer
intelligent collision avoidance system
international mobile group identity
ironomyiid
isentropic enthalpy drop
John-a-dreams
Kinkony, L.
machine-hours at cargo work
macrohabitats
Marhanets(Marganets)
maritza
megamouth
Mokcheon
multiple-cohort sequential analysis
needle contact method
Nicobar Is.
no-hands
non programming language
odontoptosis
one-words
outward-pointing
para-hydroxypropiophenone
penalty fare
peripherals,peripheral device
phantasist
phase comparison protection
point size
poster boy
precipitation electricity
prionopelta kraepelini
prusses
reactor time constant
red-ochres
rightwardly
sea-level elevation
Selkirk Rex
semimembranosus
Senthal
solubilit test
special language
Squamipinnis
ta t'iao
telebooth
threshold current
timerate
tochis
transformation on variables
turnover mechanism
under-finished stock
unenlagiine
unequities
wet-and-dry-bulb hygrometers
Zelenski