时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2010年


英语课

Nancy has only been allowed to legally drink for a couple of months, but she was an alcoholic 1 for years. When she was 13 she was drinking spirits, at 14 she had a stomach pumped,was put her on a drip, by 16 she was living in a hostel 2 and shoplifting to pay for her addiction 3.

I used to wake for the morning shaking, and everyday I woke up and the first thing I wanted to do was drink, and that's wine, I thought, that's a very big problem, and I had all my friends and family who were worried about me.

She's now 18 and a mother, and since she's finally sorting herself out, she says that's because she was given a case worker, after she was caught stealing.

He just made me look at what I was doing in a different way, and he introduced me to an alcoholic,and I had a conversation with him. And I just thought that I don't want to end up like that, I want to get out while I can, instead of 20 years time when I've wasted my life away. Binge drinking is becoming an increasing problem. The number picked out by paramedics increased by 32% between 2002 and 2007, 36 children a day are taken to hospital because of alcohol abuse, 28% more girls than boys were treated, the total cost to the ambulance service is 19 million pounds a year.

In some cities like London binge drinking is so common, they put on special booze buses to cope.

We need to be concentrated on life threatening calls like heart attacks, massive RTCS(Road Traffic Accidents), and calls like that. And being called out that people are just purely 4 phenomenon's because of over-indulged is just not acceptable.

Alcohol concern blames drink promotions 5 for the rising number of teenagers asking for help.

If you have 20 pounds to spend and you can buy a lot more alcohol you want, but in another one you go to the bar it sells the cheapest alcohols. So on that basis, we do have a further problem with children, with young people,so they can find the alcohol. Than they woundn't do if alcohol was more expensive.

The agency says Nancy's a proof that young people can turn their lives around, this calling for the price of drinks to be increased with teenagers to be given more support.



1 alcoholic
adj.(含)酒精的,由酒精引起的;n.酗酒者
  • The alcoholic strength of brandy far exceeds that of wine.白兰地的酒精浓度远远超过葡萄酒。
  • Alcoholic drinks act as a poison to a child.酒精饮料对小孩犹如毒药。
2 hostel
n.(学生)宿舍,招待所
  • I lived in a hostel while I was a student.我求学期间住在青年招待所里。
  • He says he's staying at a Youth Hostel.他说他现住在一家青年招待所。
3 addiction
n.上瘾入迷,嗜好
  • He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
  • Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。
4 purely
adv.纯粹地,完全地
  • I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
  • This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。
5 promotions
促进( promotion的名词复数 ); 提升; 推广; 宣传
  • All services or promotions must have an appeal and wide application. 所有服务或促销工作都必须具有吸引力和广泛的适用性。
  • He promptly directed the highest promotions and decorations for General MacArthur. 他授予麦克阿瑟将军以最高的官阶和勋奖。
学英语单词
ablaqueate
account to be credited
Archiclematis
automatic closing gear
barrel end opening
body odour
Boolean operater
burning-off curve
cadmium-mercury excimer laser
chemiluminiscence
cirrus floccus
closing cell
coarse elutriation
contacted clad(ding)
criterion numeral
cut and carry die
date when performance is due
debris sampler
deepenings
dentent
deputy Speaker
double extended shaft
dry-laid nonwoven fabric
dunceish
elizabeth gaskells
ependymoma
equity division
everyway
falcula
fautrier
fertility planning status
fill the prescriptions
flavans
flibbertigibbety
flight plan-aided tracking (fpat)
flunamic
funds for public undertakings
fused ring
gefitinib
genus
ground-launched cruise missile
had no further use for
Hagelstadt
hair-care
homogeneous liquid membrane
hour indicator driving wheel
impulse of restitution
indigerable
infiltration gallery
inner-directed behavior
integrated personnel information report
kafr buhum (kafr behum)
kasabach-merritt syndrome(hemangioma-thrombo-cytopenia syndrome)
kurusu
left-half pointer
lenero
leucyltransferase
local standard time (lst)
low liquid limit silt
Lumumba, Patrice (Emergy )
lynch laws
make fun
melacel
mercury motor type
modulating choke
mountainboarders
necessarians
News of the Screws
nicodicodeine
obstruct wilfully
occupational union
OMVC
outsuffered
over great distances
paintcoat
Polypathy
profile set
pump discharge shutoff valve
Retzite
rorippa indica(l.)hiern
santees
servo signal
shadjam
sonar attack plotter
space environment simulation
Spiraea sublobata
spiral lens mount
steel-wire screen
still water resistance
strectamine
Sts.
subliming apparatus
submolecule
thomas lanier williamss
touch-type
trade language
transatlantically
unprocedural
unshared
verging ray
warm season foragegrass
Wilmington