时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:背诵为王第一册


英语课

27 Humour — What Is a Teenager?



A teenager is ...

... someone who can hear his favourite singer three blocks away but not his

mother calling from the next room.

... a whiz who can operate the latest computer without a lesson but can't make

a bed.

... a connoisseur 1 of two kinds of fine music — loud and very loud.

... an enthusiast 2 who has the energy to bike for miles but is usually too

tired to dry the dishes.

... a romantic who never falls in love more than once a week.

... a boy who can sleep till noon on any Saturday and suspects the room needs

cleaning.

... an original thinker who is positive that his mother was never a teenager.



block 街区 whiz 天才,能手

operate 操作

connoisseur 内行,鉴赏家

enthusiast 热心的人,热情的人

energy 精力

romantic 浪漫主义者

suspect 怀疑

original 新颖的,独创的

positive 肯定的



幽默——少年是什么样的人?



少年是……

……一个隔着三个街区也能听到他最喜欢的歌手的声音但却听不到隔壁房间母亲叫声的人。

…… 一个不用上一节课就可以操作最新电脑的能手,但却不会铺床。

……两种音乐的鉴赏家——吵闹的和非常吵闹的音乐。

……一个充满热情,精力充沛的人,他可以骑车骑几英里,但却经常因为觉得太累而擦不

干碟子。

……一个浪漫主义者,他不经常恋爱,一周绝对少于一次。

……一个每星期六都要睡到中午,却总是怀疑房间需要打扫的人。

……是一个有独创精神的思想家,他断定他的母亲不是从少年时期走过来的



1 connoisseur
n.鉴赏家,行家,内行
  • Only the real connoisseur could tell the difference between these two wines.只有真正的内行才能指出这两种酒的区别。
  • We are looking for a connoisseur of French champagne.我们想找一位法国香槟酒品酒专家。
2 enthusiast
n.热心人,热衷者
  • He is an enthusiast about politics.他是个热衷于政治的人。
  • He was an enthusiast and loved to evoke enthusiasm in others.他是一个激情昂扬的人,也热中于唤起他人心中的激情。
学英语单词
A-10
age-discrimination
anti-acid ceramic mechanical sealing
Baron Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt
british empire range
cantidio
chaffs
Chirowandoma Falls
church
cold swap
congenital mixed myxoma
cost in business
counseling in marital problem
coursons
Coxipó da Ponte
cut-middles method
deetjens
destructuration
edstrom
energy intensive
English Civil Wars
enplaned
equiarea projection
exenatide
fargione
fed up of
federal supply group
femto-tesla
fine positioning
flutter meter
Fort George Gordon Meade
frozen products container
futhermucker
Gādar, Rūdkhāneh-ye
haul sb over the coals
heating flame
hook-wall packer
hydrodynamic oscillator
hydroxyl-group
i-grithed
inclined launching poppet
induction scheme
initial rate of infiltration
isodyamic line
jocks you
kanaff
Kengere
Kyustendilska Oblast
laser doppler anemomete
learning automata
leucoxine
li i wu tao
lithopaedia
magnetic amplifier type magnetic core circuit
membrature
mercury porosimetry
minor light
Mitake
mobil construction battalion
moonwalk
multiple pumping log
najah
net rack
of no reputation
Oleksiyivka
os pardi
oscillatory movement
pBsrev
permittedblockage percentage
pharyngo-oesophageal system
poison the fountains of trust
Povedilla
progestational phase
psychrometer
renal dialysis
Risor
saptial rotation
sedan car
semipneumatic tire
series-opposing
set interference
shusse hiro
southern house mosquito
stand-off insulator
surfle
symbolised
tarpela formosana
Thermofor reforming
tiprenolol
todid
tossin' salad
trajectory of electron motion
trap channel filling
twin-cable aerial tramway
Tébessa, Mts.de
unused portion of letter of credit
user microprogrammer
w. somerset maughams
water authority
white lightning
Xuan An
yellowcypress