时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2006年


英语课

The star at last week’s Philadelphia auto 1 show wasn’t a sports car or an economy car. It was a sports-economy car. Performance and practicality under a single hood 2 - car buyers have been waiting decades for this.

Anything goes 0 to 60 in four seconds - that piques 3 my interest.

Yeah, I don’t think you could do that with a hybrid 4.

I like it. It does get 51 miles to a gallon and on soybean bio-diesel to boot.

This is fabulous 5 that they've done. I think they did one hell of a job.

So, who do we have to thank? Ford 6? Toyota? Ferrari? Nope! Just Victor, David, Cheeseborough, Bruce, and Kosi, these high school auto shop students along with a handful of other kids from West Philadelphia High School, built the car as an after-school project. It took them over a year, rummaging 7 for parts, configuring wires, learning as they went.

All these rubber mouths, mount the motor to the frame.

Impressed? Teacher Simon Hauger says, wait till you hear this: we have a number of high school dropouts, we have a number that have been removed for disciplinary reasons and they end up with us.

Kosi Harman was in a gang at his old school, a punk and a terrible student.

Agree. I was just getting by the skin of my teeth, C’s and D’s. I came here, and now I’m a straight-A student.

Really?

Yes, sir.

Take the brief or put the Proper.

If you give kids that have been stereotyped 9 as not being able to do anything an opportunity to do something great, they will step up.

They are clean, brake fluid are cool.

Obviously, this story says a lot about the potential of our young people. Unfortunately, it also says a lot about our auto industry. (Yeah.) Now start playing hybrid catch-up to the Bad News Bears of auto shop.

Yeah, it hit me that, look, we made this work, we are not geniuses, so why aren’t other people doing it? Kosi thinks he knows. It’s big oil companies. (All right.)

They are making billions upon billions of dollars, right? And when this car sells, then their billions upon billions will go down to low billions upon billions.

stereotype 8: decide unfairly that a type of person's inability to do sth due to their race, sex or social class. stereotype sb as sth



1 auto
n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车
  • Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
  • The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
2 hood
n.头巾,兜帽,覆盖;v.罩上,以头巾覆盖
  • She is wearing a red cloak with a hood.她穿着一件红色带兜帽的披风。
  • The car hood was dented in.汽车的发动机罩已凹了进去。
3 piques
v.伤害…的自尊心( pique的第三人称单数 );激起(好奇心)
  • I understand practically everything, except one thing that piques my curiosity. 实际上,我什么都了解,只有一点除外,而且引起了我的好奇心。 来自飘(部分)
  • He piques himself on having a good memory. 他常夸耀自己记性好。 来自辞典例句
4 hybrid
n.(动,植)杂种,混合物
  • That is a hybrid perpetual rose.那是一株杂交的四季开花的蔷薇。
  • The hybrid was tall,handsome,and intelligent.那混血儿高大、英俊、又聪明。
5 fabulous
adj.极好的;极为巨大的;寓言中的,传说中的
  • We had a fabulous time at the party.我们在晚会上玩得很痛快。
  • This is a fabulous sum of money.这是一笔巨款。
6 Ford
n.浅滩,水浅可涉处;v.涉水,涉过
  • They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上,所以我们只能涉水过河。
  • If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪,必须极度小心。
7 rummaging
翻找,搜寻( rummage的现在分词 ); 海关检查
  • She was rummaging around in her bag for her keys. 她在自己的包里翻来翻去找钥匙。
  • Who's been rummaging through my papers? 谁乱翻我的文件来着?
8 stereotype
n.固定的形象,陈规,老套,旧框框
  • He's my stereotype of a schoolteacher.他是我心目中的典型教师。
  • There's always been a stereotype about successful businessmen.人们对于成功商人一直都有一种固定印象。
9 stereotyped
adj.(指形象、思想、人物等)模式化的
  • There is a sameness about all these tales. They're so stereotyped -- all about talented scholars and lovely ladies. 这些书就是一套子,左不过是些才子佳人,最没趣儿。
  • He is the stereotyped monster of the horror films and the adventure books, and an obvious (though not perhaps strictly scientific) link with our ancestral past. 它们是恐怖电影和惊险小说中的老一套的怪物,并且与我们的祖先有着明显的(虽然可能没有科学的)联系。
学英语单词
AC shunt generator
affine function
arrest sb. on a charge of
Axenfeld's test
b-cells
Ban Bang Khan
banghyang
bedirties
behavioral intention
bitartrate
Boyarovka
celltransformation
centrifugal stress
chairmans
channel availability
chemical and metallurgical report
Clerieux
cold-coining
Comparisons are odious.
confirmatory reaction
continuous girder
conveyer loader
cover artists
creamed asparagus soup
crounkil
deciwatt
definitum
delivery stocking spout
dhidhima (didyma)
drought forecast
duable
entsufon
extracapsular ligament
fault and privity
feducial limits
feed creel
fibroma of testicular tunica
fire line hydrant
fissure
floating school
gear-grinder
Geikie Ra.
gigantolite
hay grab with monorail trolley
hay shock
health visitor
herbengar
hoist pennants
hydrosilicon
hypabyssal rocks
interhyal (or stylohyal)
ironsmith
Kindertransport
lies ahead
mandatory restrictions on exports
Maranhão Grande, Cachoeira
metal thick nitride semiconductor (mtns)
minimum gas film thickness
nanopillars
nantung
non-partisanship
Notropis cornutus
palladium(ii) iodide
Papuan
pasiniazid
pedohydrology
Phyllagathis latisepala
Phyllanthus L.
piece-by-piece
Plantago arachnoidea
plocach
plus end
premotions
Present value factor
primitive process
proliferative tuberculosis
quivers
radii of curvature
reformees
resulting instantaneous rotational vector
rings-around-the-rosy
rortiest
rotor control mechanism
roust out
rubber covering machine
stabilization function
stem-loops
stick note
superheterodyne reception
Taizhou
thermoplastic road marking machine
tumo(u)r pathognomy
tunica conjunctiva bulbis
uk archaeology
umbelliprenin
under cover of
under seperate cover
VCNTY
ventral tegmental decussation
virtual channel link termination
windway
Yelarbon