时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:新视野大学英语:视听说教程 1


英语课

Task 3: Halloween

Some people really enjoy Christmas, or Valentine’s Day, or Easter, or have a huge family reunion

or barbecue on the Fourth of July. Some people look forward to stuffing 1 themselves with turkey

every year on Thanksgiving. Great as those are, they don’t compare with my favorite. I LOVE

Halloween! Why Halloween? Well, Halloween is the night of the year when we can all get dressed

up as someone else, pretend 2 and let our imaginations run wild. Even adults get a free pass to go

back to their childhood and become that kid still inside all of us. It’s also the one night of the year

when we get to shine light on the dark, and confront 3 monsters, ghosts, witches 4, and all things

dead. We get to confront our biggest fears, as both children and adults, and reassure 5 ourselves that

there’s really no reason to be afraid of things we see at night.

Christmas     Thanksgiving      dressed      imaginations      adults      childhood

shine         confront          dead        reassure          at night

 



1 stuffing
n.填充物vt.填充(stuff的现在分词)
  • We had a chicken and stuffing, and new potatoes from the garden. 我们吃了只百宝鸡,还有园子里种的新鲜马铃薯。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She had already mixed the stuffing for the dumplings. 她已经把饺子馅和好了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2 pretend
vt.假装,假托,装扮;vi.假装,装作
  • So you don't need to pretend,do you?所以你不必装假了,对吧?
  • Many people pretend that they understand modern art.许多人装着自己懂得现代艺术。
3 confront
vt.遭遇,勇敢地面对,正视,使对质
  • A soldier has to confront danger.士兵须面对危险。
  • We must confront future with optimism.我们必须乐观地面对未来。
4 witches
n.女巫,巫婆( witch的名词复数 );讨人嫌的丑女人v.女巫,巫婆( witch的第三人称单数 );讨人嫌的丑女人
  • Witches used to be burned at the stake. 巫婆过去要被处以火刑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Witches ain't got no power in the daytime." 巫婆白天是没有法力的。” 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
5 reassure
v.使放心,使消除疑虑
  • This seemed to reassure him and he continued more confidently.这似乎使他放心一点,于是他更有信心地继续说了下去。
  • The airline tried to reassure the customers that the planes were safe.航空公司尽力让乘客相信飞机是安全的。
学英语单词
a yen for travel
Adjuntas, Presa de las
alongside a pier
Ancash, Dep.de
antenna reductor
aswells
avicularoside
boiler fullpower capacity
Books and friends should be few but good.
Boquerón, Pto.del
Bufo microscaphus
calyptrochaeta japonica
cast an eye at sth.
chafouleas
Chlorimiopramine
coachwhip snake
composite flour
conference centers
cross section for charge particles
DT-6
dynamic stability of a power system
educationalism
Epixine
fibre plaster
gaud
geder
generally accounting
Gyrus precentralis
Hamsang
handcraft
highest-resolution
himalayan subcycle
hsk
inclination of cusp
incomplete sequencer relay
industrial specialization
innavigable
integer quantum hall resistance
jaw of the chair
Ladogisk
leporine
leptosporangium
leuconephelinite
Mamiku
Manning Seamounts
mckiernan
mechanical hammers
Middlesbrough
Morocos
mouth water
myofascial release
Myofedrin
nabobships
neopentyl ester
net-based
non controversial
nuclear underground burst
obversely
occulusion
octahedrite ( (1) anatase)
on the batter
operational ceiling
OPers.
paracyclic ovulation
partsmakers
pebbly sand
penicillanic acid
perisucht tuberculin
phobus
PIVs
pregeijerene
primitive thinking science
principal factor
Quoin I.
ragusin
reciprocity calibration apparatus
required study
resonant charging choke
sandro botticellis
shorting plug
single-propeller planes
solid tap
Spergula arvensis
Spiropitan
steamwagon
Straight through
strobilomyces nigricans
sunken wreck
swallow down
synchro clock
taxicar
the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
thomas babington macaulays
Tishenko
towing point
tramp
undermeal
untrimmed timber
Visakha
witchcraft syndrome(contact urticaria artifacta)
xylene monosulfonic acid