时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(七)月


英语课

   If you haven't already pickd up on the trend from all the whining 1 on Bravo's Princesses Long Island, marriage rates in America are at an all-time low. And the medium age at which women do say 'I do'is now 27, the highest it's been in the century. That's according to a new report by Bowling 2 Green State University's Julissa Crupz, published by the national center for family and marriage research. In the 1920s, 92 women walked down the aisle 3 each year per thousand of single women of marrying age. Today, it's a third that. Marriage rates were expected to plateau in the wake of the baby boom. But so far, they just keeping dropping. Apparently 4, many college educated women are simply putting off getting hitched 5. And many black women might be foregoing it altogether. Because while every enthic group has seen a drop in the proportion of married women since the 50s, it's dipped lowest for black women, just 26% of whom are married. In the UK and most of Europe, the average age for women tying the knot is already more than 30. And if Long Island's reality stars are an indicator 6, we're soon to follow.



1 whining
n.保龄球运动
  • Bowling is a popular sport with young and old.保龄球是老少都爱的运动。
  • Which sport do you 1ike most,golf or bowling?你最喜欢什么运动,高尔夫还是保龄球?
2 aisle
n.(教堂、教室、戏院等里的)过道,通道
  • The aisle was crammed with people.过道上挤满了人。
  • The girl ushered me along the aisle to my seat.引座小姐带领我沿着通道到我的座位上去。
3 apparently
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
4 hitched
(免费)搭乘他人之车( hitch的过去式和过去分词 ); 搭便车; 攀上; 跃上
  • They hitched a ride in a truck. 他们搭乘了一辆路过的货车。
  • We hitched a ride in a truck yesterday. 我们昨天顺便搭乘了一辆卡车。
5 indicator
n.指标;指示物,指示者;指示器
  • Gold prices are often seen as an indicator of inflation.黃金价格常常被看作是通货膨胀的指标。
  • His left-hand indicator is flashing.他左手边的转向灯正在闪亮。
学英语单词
account department
Alah R.
anobiidaes
Ardea herodius
Arundel
bad account
be native to
binodal curve
biological morphology
bunk bed
Case-hardener
changing time
combined downcast uptake ventilator
common lice
compensation in tac
corioli's acceleration
cumbie
datum feature
Dayi method
deep submergence vehicle (dsv)
deoxyshikonin
desulphurize, desulphurized
distilment
drawing silk
drug-addiction
Egmont B.
elvis
exponent specifier
extend the time limit for filing clause
fambles
family ichthyosauridaes
fate map
frost-shed
frugal
fucitols
full power scram
ganglionic crest
grenander conditions
guidettes
hail fellow
headsful
heating alloy
Helladic
hesham
Hylotelephium erythrostictum
hypercondensation
infect with a disease
inventory costs
iodophenacetin
irrigation on plastic membrance
kasras
ketotrexate
knowhows
Ligularia franchetiana
map editing
material discipline
nasal adenoma
nitroflurbiprofen
noncovariant
North Negril Pt.
nul waste
oared
objective oblique
overtaxation
permiten
pit-saw
polyplacophore
Post Office Protocol
postvaccinal skin disease
pysanka
rate of change relay
rehmannia
resistance welding electrode
rough bolt
Russian gold
sea kale
secured credit
senior colonels
shell disease of oyster
shutdown accidental shutdown
smotheringly
sponge product
stay-ship
stochastic source
stored record
superior tarsalis
surge overvoltage
Sweyn I
symbolic mathematical laboratory
system operating cost
tappet retainer
Taylor's equation
took chances
transcolate
truckfuls
turgisity
two-quanta process
utilization transmission ration
work statement
workers compensation catastrophy cover
world-weary, world-wearied