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


英语课

  Dark nights, twinkling lights.

Beginners.

It gets dark here in Wenatchee at about four thirty in the afternoon now. My children often ask me what the time is, or whether they need to get ready for bed, when it is still early. It can be a little confusing. One thing that I like to do quite soon in the Winter, is to put Christmas lights up on the trees outside the house. They are so pretty. Also, the children play outside longer when there are different lights outside. Some of the businesses in town have already decorated their buildings and landscaping. It encourages people to keep shopping. We have lights of many different colors. My favorites are green and blue. Some people in our neighborhood really go to town with the lights. Infact, there is a competition held every year for the best decorated house. People drive around the town to 'Christmas light spot'. They drive up to and admire the prettiest houses.

Grammar notes.

Related expressions: to get light/ dark; to get ready for bed; outside/ inside; buildings; landscaping; to decorate; favorite; to drive around.

Advanced

I must be a big kid at heart, because this time of year is special for me. Obviously, with Thanksgiving and Christmas around the corner, there is a lot of preparation and decorating. The dark nights and lack of sky light are compensated 2 for by all the twinkly lights in town. Some neighborhoods look like Las Vegas. It can become a real show piece, and, at the very least, a cheery sight to view from a car. We usually start the festivities early, by decorating the trees outside. You can hear the "Oooh", and "aaah", from adults and children alike when they see the lights. When a pine tree is decorated with green, it glows magically. And when it is covered with blue lights, it has a cool, mysterious shine. I think that most people appreciate the beauty of the lights. There is work involved in putting the lights up, though. It can be a tricky 3 job. In fact, many people end up in the emergency room because of falls from ladders or electrocution. Well, I hope that won't be my fate this year; I will be extra careful. Just you wait until my trees are decorated. There will certainly be pictures on this web site of all the colors and twinkling lights.

Grammar notes.

Related vocabulary: around the corner = coming soon; a lack of....; to compensate 1; a show piece; at the very least; cheery; a tricky job; emergency room; ladder; electrocution; fate.



vt.补偿,赔偿;酬报 vi.弥补;补偿;抵消
  • She used her good looks to compensate her lack of intelligence. 她利用她漂亮的外表来弥补智力的不足。
  • Nothing can compensate for the loss of one's health. 一个人失去了键康是不可弥补的。
补偿,报酬( compensate的过去式和过去分词 ); 给(某人)赔偿(或赔款)
  • The marvelous acting compensated for the play's weak script. 本剧的精彩表演弥补了剧本的不足。
  • I compensated his loss with money. 我赔偿他经济损失。
adj.狡猾的,奸诈的;(工作等)棘手的,微妙的
  • I'm in a rather tricky position.Can you help me out?我的处境很棘手,你能帮我吗?
  • He avoided this tricky question and talked in generalities.他回避了这个非常微妙的问题,只做了个笼统的表述。
学英语单词
abiekwaput se pan
Acorto
Arfajah
astach
audit of financial settlement
automatic carrier
B. and B.
base speed
blue-fruited
bottom articulated joint
break square
brine(cured) hide
candidates
capillary telangiectasia
carpals
chambered girdle
chapao
chigetal
chimango
chipperfields
chromis lepidolepis
collenchyma
Conuropsis
covering property
CQP
crib strap
crotonates
current-transformer phase angle
cyclomikuranine
decontaminant
displacement discontinuity
double acting cylinder
double thrustbearing
Drinkwater.
Dulkevichiella
ejection case mechanism
electric energy density
eleutheroside
epitonium crassum
Esgueva, R.
expected value of sample information
field advance
flexible return
flood frequency
forest track
frontal ridge
frossard
gas seep
glass fiber
glucolocundioside
grab ahold of
grasscutting
He has built up his own business
hemisphericalhead
history of international communist movement
idiot boxes
incline skip hoist
inwashes
klinsmanns
lasofoxifene
managemental
Medd.
mercury(ii) cyanide
mettell
mind-map
Mokrin
municipal undertaking
near point of vision
nonrevolutionary
Näsviken
oil blackeite
omnidirective reflector
output-to-output crosstalk
oxidation waste
paleoequator
penetrameter sensitivity
Petersburgian
phytophthora cyperi(ideta)ito
polyurethane (pu)
propositional logic
pull off pole
qualitatively identical labor
reserve for amortization
right-angularly
rod nuclear cells
sazama
Semnopithecus
Seriola grandis
shunt inductance
similarity solution
specific place
static autoclave test
stub goods station
swinglers
take power
temerarious
tertiary recovery
theory of the Yin and Yang
travel-agent
turn the clock ahead
una corda
weakly ionized plasma