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
2-butenylidene
a rough patch
active side
age qualifying for an old age pension
Al Juwayfah
amioca
analyzand
average liabilities
bench show
blankouts
brokenberruh
buckshees
buffeting limit
bundle buster
calcined bone
cheek piece
COM object
conchifera
corn thresher
cranial half-sclerotome
cross-shaped twin
dam board
Daunggyi
Daviesia
deceivability
dehydrojuvabione
detuning sleeve
electric floating crane
electrolevel
elesclomol
emerging growth company
equitate
floating currency sign
font area
gapesing
gas electronics
gastric neurosis
glossokinetic
grandgosier
H I region
hydropedality
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
ingot blank
intranets
Kinkadian
Kouilou River
lance snake
Lau Ma Chai
leopardbanes
licenciado
Lingayen
magnesium dioxide
Manche, Dép.de la
mandatory judgement
mesophora tessellatus
mhab
microbiology
Mikrolit
monotone operator
muskified
nature-spirits
Newman, Mt.
normal position indicator
offensive lines
olfactometric
passive attention
peacemarker
peg count
photoelectric tracing gas cutter
pixel resolution
plastic relay house
praesepe (m44)
psychogenic dysmenorrhea
psychoreaction
pulsed electron impact ion source
put oneself upon the country
quasi viscous flow
random
realize from
remounts
Rothley
safety-belt
secondary-electron conduction
semiconductor lasers (dynamics)
semigenerics
serrated leaf
shadow resource
ship's stores burned as fuel
singular series
split-plate magnetron
stratosphere balloon
suburbanity
taxes with
tower gantry crane
Tshwaane
Turkish pizza
umbilical
vector psychology
villagomez
wattmeter current coil
Web servers
yawing moment-due-to sideslip