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
advice of damage
alien abduction
alimadi
be at suck
bestious
boiler feed pump turbine
bond joint
buttonman
byte-oriented
call-boy
centaurium pulchellum altaicum
central type carcinoma of lung
Chahārcheshmeh
chainfall
CMOC
Colona floribunda
combined magnetic sound
contour curves
cross-linked file
decoding table
defocus-focus mode
dipetalonema viteae
direct current locomotive
dispreferred
Ecclesiastical parish
ecophenotype
employment agreement
epithermol
equalizer (connection)
femtokatal
fibre harness
filament-wound glass-reinforced plastics
flowchart system
fluid-structure
fluorobenzene
frame start
fuel-recovery plant
functional paper
gagaminine
gallos
genoux
genus Xenorhyncus
hatch hour rate
haverfords
highway level crossing signal
indium(i) selenide
Ipplepen
Isometrum lancifolium
job model construction
johnny cakes
kunishi
lickspit
macular disciform degeneration
make as if to do
mazzarine
method of equal coefficient
misregister
model trimmer
mostly covered
movable trestle
netherworldly
non-expanding nozzle
Nordic Council
noregs
not good liquor
on the assumption that
orary
painlike
paired-associates
parked
pennant chasers
pharyngeal space
phase shifting angle
pneumatizations
polishing wax
schoolies weeks
shipments billed above cost
short-tailed weasels
si-li detector
sintered glass filter-bulb
skymile
slickering
spiroes
Statutory Sick Pay
supplemental-instruction
Synchrodynl-17
São José dos Pinhais
task switch
Tetrastigma erubescens
The eye is the body opening of the liver
the good old times
tormentable
toxicity of pesticide residue
TV wall controller
unbound
useful magnification
varying supersonic flight
walek
Ward Hunt Str.
white gold alloy
Xtrykr
Yerubayev