时间:2018-11-27 作者:英语课 分类:赖世雄学英语第二册


英语课

  Lesson 8

Bill Clinton

Text:

Bill Clinton took office on January, 20th, 1993 and became the 42nd US president. He was the first US president born after World War II. He is also one of the youngest of all US presidents. Clinton was born into a poor family in 1946. Three month before he was born, his father, William Blake died. When he was small, his mother remarried. Her new husband’s name was Norge Clinton. So the boy’s family name was changed. In the summer of 1963, Clinton was invited to visit Washington 1 D.C. During his visit, he made President Candidate 2 in the White House. At that time he knew he wanted to be an American president. He made his dream come true.

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Bill Clinton took office on January, 20th, 1993 and became the 42nd US president. He was the first US president born after World War II. He is also one of the youngest of all US presidents. Clinton was born into a poor family in 1946. Three month before he was born, his father, William Blake died. When he was small, his mother remarried. Her new husband’s name was Norge Clinton. So the boy’s family name was changed. In the summer of 1963, Clinton was invited to visit Washington D.C. During his visit, he made President Candidate in the White House. At that time he knew he wanted to be an American president. He made his dream come true.

Dialogue:

President Clinton

Woman: I think Bill Clinton is a good president.

Man: But he has sex scandal 3.

Woman: Well. Maybe he isn’t a good husband, but he is a successful president.

Man: I agree. He is also an excellent speaker.

Woman: Yes, he is. Of course he makes mistakes, but who doesn’t.

Man: yeah, it’s fair to say so.



1 Washington
n.华盛顿特区(是美国首都)
  • His birthplace is Washington,but he lives in San Francisco.他出生于华盛顿,但住在旧金山。
  • They, together with my father,have gone to Washington.他们和我父亲一起去华盛顿了。
2 candidate
n.候选人;候补者;投考者,申请求职者
  • Voters like a candidate who has the common touch. 投票者喜欢那些平易近人的候选人。
  • The local newspapers dressed up the candidate as a boxer.当地报纸把那个候选人描绘成一个拳击手。
3 scandal
n.丑事,丑闻,流言蜚语,反感,愤慨
  • Scandal and gossip are meat and drink to him.各种丑闻和流言蜚语是他最感兴趣的事。
  • His theft from the shop caused scandal in the village.他因偷商店的东西引起全村的公愤。
学英语单词
abnormal arch
after-care
AGCT
aphyosemion
attitude determination accuracy
babyrussas
balsaminaceaes
Beat it while the beating's good.
bharetta owadai
bismon
blown pumpkin
bookmarklet
bouquet spur
braking system of hydrogenerator
bulk freighter
bun ochra fibre
chalk something up to something
chromene
combined pressure and vacuum ga(u)ge
commutator-bar
complete denture adhesive
contorsive
define symbol address
degree of a term
deoxyglucoses
deposit in security
diprosopia
double-face valve
echinochaete russiceps
encephalomyelonic axis
endfrog
enzyme-coupled receptor
epidermosis
extensive magnitude
fish-plate pass
galisteo
genus group
gnemonosides
hammer rating
heat content table
Herihor
housephone
identity ring
inclusion-OR gate
internal thread pipe
interrogation of a defendant
intersection angle
kairdin
kerenskies
lens
Lepturus repens
liquid limit device
manganiello
mother love
nikwaxes
Nord-Norge
not-s
official-looking
oslobodenje
over worn
passenger car tyre
permeable dike
phase generator
phosphorus bearing slag
photo-thermal
piece-dyed
Plounévez-Quintin
porous film
post term
precooling system with water and impure nitrogen
radio-pharmaceutical
ramus sinister (a. hepaticae propriae)
reactive light yellow
redox inaicator
reduction of gravity value
Ripley, William Zebina
ritualities
rooted head
ship's pump
sing to sleep
slimmings
someway
space-tourism
squinance
style-shaped bone tumor
tax years
taxing district
temporal radiometer
temporary extinction
Tiksheozero, Ozero
toque blanche
tripathi
ultra-pasteurized
unbiological
unimmediate
uninvertible
Vengerovka
w.e.f
whetstones
winged word
yield of real capital
yolster