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
acoustic wave scattering
alger (algiers)
amplitude modulation signal
anti-crack
Aq. mar.
arethusa japonica a.gray
armu r.
atrophic emphysema
ball-and-roll bearing
be nervous of
block liquorice
borneol flake
brindled gnus
burned
business like
button headed bolt
carbon stick
ceratopharyngeal muscles
challenge-response authentication mechanism
cock juice
configuration management system
culo
discoursive communication
durra
figure eight suture
fingerspelling
floor-type radiation beacon
gainery
genettes
genus Vitis
goldhawks
GPC (general purpose computer)
gubenko
heatless regeneration
hebrids
hot molding
hypergonadotrophic eunuchoidism
hyun
image data compression
in close relationship with
in that regard
infoganda
instructional item
interdefinabilities
jejunoduodenostomy
Kaifu Toshiki
Korneforos
land capability map
magnetic circulation
manganeisen
mid-cycles
minimal uncountable cardinal
misfalls
mixed crystal
nelumboes
neurotropism
nordmarkite minette
normalthresholdof audibility
North Germanic language
Nothosmyrnium japonicum Miq.
opposing electromotive force
other monetary funds
overflow rockfill dam
party-pieces
picture palaces
pink paper daisy
pitch velocity
ploce
Port O'Connor
prehistoric ages
pseudo wave
racist regime
rate-distortion theory
ready for any venture
renouk
rhiniatry
ruandas
rush nuts
say adieu to someone
SBLI
scapuloclavicular articulation
sifted sand
single-start ball screw
statement of objection
Stephen Arnold Douglas
stourly
subnamespaces
sufficeth
tartramic acid
taste pore
tco certification
terrigenous sediments
traditon
transmission-line constant
triryvagol
trowl
valve case
Wabash R.
Waterbeach
wind force
world weariness