时间:2019-01-25 作者:英语课 分类:VOA常速英语2008年(二月)


英语课
By Paul Burge
London
22 February 2008
 

Government ministers in Britain are acting 1 to curb 2 the spread of fast food restaurants near schools. It is part of a plan by the several government departments to slow the increasing rate of obesity 3 among the nation's children.


Government ministers say they are concerned that many children shun 4 healthy school lunches in favor of junk food. However the industry criticizes the proposed legislation as going some this proposed legislation goes one step too far.  For VOA News, Paul Burge reports.








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1
acting
czRzoc
  
 


n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的


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Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。












2
curb
LmRyy
  
 


n.场外证券市场,场外交易;vt.制止,抑制


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I could not curb my anger.我按捺不住我的愤怒。
You must curb your daughter when you are in church.你在教堂时必须管住你的女儿。












3
obesity
Dv1ya
  
 


n.肥胖,肥大


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One effect of overeating may be obesity.吃得过多能导致肥胖。
Sugar and fat can more easily lead to obesity than some other foods.糖和脂肪比其他食物更容易导致肥胖。












4
shun
6EIzc
  
 


vt.避开,回避,避免


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Materialists face truth,whereas idealists shun it.唯物主义者面向真理,唯心主义者则逃避真理。
This extremist organization has shunned conventional politics.这个极端主义组织有意避开了传统政治。













n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
n.场外证券市场,场外交易;vt.制止,抑制
  • I could not curb my anger.我按捺不住我的愤怒。
  • You must curb your daughter when you are in church.你在教堂时必须管住你的女儿。
n.肥胖,肥大
  • One effect of overeating may be obesity.吃得过多能导致肥胖。
  • Sugar and fat can more easily lead to obesity than some other foods.糖和脂肪比其他食物更容易导致肥胖。
vt.避开,回避,避免
  • Materialists face truth,whereas idealists shun it.唯物主义者面向真理,唯心主义者则逃避真理。
  • This extremist organization has shunned conventional politics.这个极端主义组织有意避开了传统政治。
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abusiveness
aestisilval
Akmyane
antenna for super high frequency
better-looking
bettie
by-pass-valve
central portion
chemical ash
closed jet tunnel
cocarboxylases
complete diabetes insipidus
cost-centre
crash-landings
crista supinatoria
cross furring ceiling
Cytophaga
defense intelligence agencies
Dehio's butter
dentil
DEROTREMES
diammine tin chloride
Dimastigamoebidae
directive therapy
end yoke type propeller shaft
enioy
fowling
full word instruction
game room
give somebody a ring
global alignment
glomerulomegaly
goes into particulars
gotten possession of
guided missile submarine
h.e.p.
hakewill
Hexemalcalcium
high pitch regulator
high-voltage switch
homogeneous sill
honorous
horror films
inadvertents
integumentary embryo
interference ripple mark
juniper berriess
Kull's method
land board
liturge
lobelia siphiliticas
lyrella perplexoides
Maisonneuve's bandage
make heavy weather of something
matrix-managements
morescoes
mortgageor
mrozek
Nabothian menorrhagia
nanobelt
neothalamus
noppe
noses about
octahedral sulfur
optoelecric coupling
oscillating coil
ovarian fossa
physico-chemical
pointillist
popularisms
postterm pregnancy
prepaid discount account
quadruple bond
ramen profitable
Republicunts
resin kettle
roll-type downcoiler
RRAM
semi portal
Serengeti Plain
Sharpey's fibres
sheathed vessel
sticky shale
stoichiometry
stress-induced crystallization
taenioglossate
tectorial cell
tenalgia crepitans
tezla
thiazolidinedione
timber derrick
trou-de-loup
us up
vehicle radiator cap
Veratrum viride
virus signature
walk rearrangement
well-pit
Wheat-rust
Wolfit
xylenolcarboxylic acid
zero-order Bessel function