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
adaptive control definition
advises
air-locks
alfe
alrestatin
american petroleum institute degree
analogy of law
anionic electrochemical polymerization
aronne
athletic events
banishment
bendiness
benign tumours
blearness
Bovet
brass instrument
cameraobscura
careerlessness
cavitation bubble
CE-MS
cell-culture
ceratocombus taivanus
circumflex veins
colour reversal film
convex milling cutter
counter-placed
coupling resonance
dob bie
dorkus maximus
ductulus efferens (pl. ductuli efferentes)
dynamic interaction
Dzibalchen
electromagnetic repulsion
exceptionalistic
fibrists
flash butt weldings
floor tile production line
floral motif
free vortex sheet
funnylooking
Fögrufjöll
gallanilides
gift
GM_dummy-subjects
granophyre
guided missile model
hibbingite
Hook's
hypersphere
i-likeness
incorrect operation
intermediate main bearing
ionic refraction
janis joplins
knowledge production
kristoffer
Lophatherum
manned spaceflight network
multiple factor experiment
multiple pass monochromator
musculus protractor pectoralis
nansel
natural gas solubility
natural resources-revaluation increments
net importer of energy supply
next to last
nonpermissible code
number address code
obstruction gauge
odo(u)r generalist cell
Old Ned
oldest stage
oleamen
playoff beard
pleuroblastic
PPGE
prophetism
receiver of main engine revolution
record-players
reskimming
sexual relation
signal lever platform
sodium metabisulfate
subgymnocarpous
subula
sultana wine
takes ten
tehren conference
tinders
totemite
two-dimensional dipole
unambassadorial
underwater hovering
undialed
upfeed distribution
valve push rod cover
wetnight
wire reinforcement
yaller dogs
Yeywa
zeugs
zootherapy