时间:2018-12-12 作者:英语课 分类:华尔街中级英语


英语课

1. –My, You are a professionally trained marriage guidance counselor 1. Could you describe your work?
-Yes, we deal with any type of relationship issue that comes our way. We used to
deal with marriages, but 1990s obviously reflect a change in the way behaviors are,
and very much now, people are cohabiting rather than marrying. And,  therefore, open our doors to anybody who is in a relationship where things are difficult. So our
work is focused on either relationship breakdowns 3 or marital 4 breakdowns in the hope
that we can either help people to reconcile or help them to separate without too
much animosity and with more understanding.


2. The breakdown 2 of marriage in Britain is about 33,34%, well higher than any other European country. With in fact, that’s first marriages, 50% of second marriages breaking down.


How long have you been doing this sort of work?
-I’ve been involved in counseling now for 8 years.
-What sort of qualifications do you need to do what you do as a profession?
-For counseling, you don’t actually need any formal qualifications, but the actual selection procedure is extremely stringent 5. It’s a two year training.



1 counselor
n.顾问,法律顾问
  • The counselor gave us some disinterested advice.顾问给了我们一些无私的忠告。
  • Chinese commercial counselor's office in foreign countries.中国驻国外商务参赞处。
2 breakdown
n.垮,衰竭;损坏,故障,倒塌
  • She suffered a nervous breakdown.她患神经衰弱。
  • The plane had a breakdown in the air,but it was fortunately removed by the ace pilot.飞机在空中发生了故障,但幸运的是被王牌驾驶员排除了。
3 breakdowns
n.分解( breakdown的名词复数 );衰竭;(车辆或机器的)损坏;统计分析
  • Her old car was unreliable, so the trip was plagued by breakdowns. 她的旧车老不听使唤,一路上总是出故障。 来自辞典例句
  • How do we prevent these continual breakdowns? 我们如何防止这些一再出现的故障? 来自辞典例句
4 marital
adj.婚姻的,夫妻的
  • Her son had no marital problems.她的儿子没有婚姻问题。
  • I regret getting involved with my daughter's marital problems;all its done is to bring trouble about my ears.我后悔干涉我女儿的婚姻问题, 现在我所做的一切将给我带来无穷的烦恼。
5 stringent
adj.严厉的;令人信服的;银根紧的
  • Financiers are calling for a relaxation of these stringent measures.金融家呼吁对这些严厉的措施予以放宽。
  • Some of the conditions in the contract are too stringent.合同中有几项条件太苛刻。
学英语单词
a blanket of smoke
ABAI
abequosyltransferase
acanthocephalous
accelerated freeze-drying
actualizer
acyl iodide
automatic material handling system (amhs)
automation and control
background ionization voltage
biballism
bronze race
capitalist farming
chronology condition
clinostatasm
commercery
conjugacies
cyles
dark diffuse nebula
davar panah
Days' sales outstanding
diffusely reflecting surface
draw-in bolt
effective heat transfer surface
emphasising
encumbered with
engagement of the cutting edge
Engler viscometer of petroleum products
Erethisma
extended error correction
extinction of claim
felt-neoprene seal
folk-tradition
gekko hokouensis
genus Ischigualastia
grashof rule
gui application interoperability architecture
gummi tragacanthae
haemophiles
haplic acrisols
hard plug
haz-mat
head telephone
heirs apparent
Herzberg's two-factor theory
hole straightening
Holmes, Arthur
hypothesis
incisurae sphenopalatina
indurance
internal flow field visualization using optical fiber
interorganizational systems
ladlefor smelting
laparohysterosalpingo-oophorectomy
law of international transfer of technology
lenbachhaus
lipodermatosclerosis
magnetic matrix switch
measuring addendum
mensurate
merge package
metaconid
mother map
Nel'koba
non-cooperative Walras equilibration
not-at-risk
number of actual teeth
operatic stars
optical superposition
Otary
partargo
personal service of the writ
philophylla fossata
pinion type cutter
planaperturate
pneumases
Project Mercury
reconquerable
Redi, Francesco
reflectivity method
repulsive interaction
rond de jambe en l'air
run-and-hit
safety supervision
sambuk
seed vigor
seismoscope data
selection command
sensitve drilling machine
shonfields
silique
singularization
sintered plastics
smolianinovite
stage struck
start code
thermopreferendum
unbottom
uveolabyrinthitis
vernier nozzle
whipping of crank shaft
zero synchronization