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
Acianthus
aim at sth
alberigo
answer for sth
back-yardism
bacteriophagic lysin
Bad Oldesloe
bennelongs
benzyleneglycol
biankowski
bit manipulation subroutine
black Saturday
bomb sampler
Bottni's operation
brad pitt
candor
Chalastrogastra
chill scrap
chlororthalonil
Ciechanowskie, Wojiewództwo
complementary error function distribution
corn distillery
correct subset
cronia fusca
Cruikshank, George
current of water
day light saving time
decimole
dermolipoma
Desdemona
doubleo
down-stream
economic development
Elatostema lungzhouense
enter one's head
extrinsicism
fasciculi proprii dorsales
feel desire for
fenningian period
fold kern
fused semiconductor
gauze and cotton tissue
GEA system
genus foeniculums
glided
gluonia
groundwater net
H-indicator
Heber Springs
high system tract
Hill 2, Ambrose Powell
honores
hydrophidaes
Igornay
IIDM
impoverished
in harmony with
inkcap
interlamellar spaces
jayhawkers
jerkinesses
jiggliness
joint-bar renewal
Kinglassie
linear porosity
low-energy
Lyale
mayfish
monoclinic fabric
moulaye
mshes
multiprenylmenaquinone
neogamous
NEXCOM
nonbred
nondestructive method for estimating
nonvolatile random-access memory
order of covering
overstuffs
parapiasma flavigenum
pulsating quantity
pulsed off hook
regular representation of compact group
relative metrics
reverse take-over bid
Rewood
rideau
running modification
sgraffitoes
Sinemurian Stage
slab grinder
slow time division
spinning reel
struggles
technical criteria
temptresses
thenar tours
timse
tracer controlled machine
uncastle
virtual organization
within-subjects design