时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:英语时差8,16


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Do you ever fancy a career change? Well if you can cast spells, fly on a broomstick and have a good cackle, then you might be interested in becoming a professional witch. And if you become the Witch of Wookey Hole you could even earn a good salary. Legend has it that the haunted caves of Wookey Hole in the south of England were home to a witch who laid a curse on the local villagers, until she was turned to stone by a monk 1. These days the caves are a tourist attraction which bring in thousands of visitors a year. And they have just appointed a new witch. On Tuesday, Carole Bonahan beat over 300 applicants 2 with pointy hats, capes 3 and hooked noses to win the £50,000-a-year (around 500,000 RMB) post as Wookey Hole's resident witch. Carole, who will now be known by her witch's name Carla Calamity 4, will give up her job as an estate agent in order to become a full-time 5 witch. Her main duty will be welcoming visitors to the caves. Miss Calamity wears stilettos and describes herself as a "glamorous 6 witch". Indeed, Carla Calamity had to overcome a wide range of people from all walks of life in order to get the job. Teachers, a photographer, and even an accountant all threw their hats in the ring. So next time you feel like introducing a little magic into your life, you might want to think about a career in witching.



1 monk
n.和尚,僧侣,修道士
  • The man was a monk from Emei Mountain.那人是峨眉山下来的和尚。
  • Buddhist monk sat with folded palms.和尚合掌打坐。
2 applicants
申请人,求职人( applicant的名词复数 )
  • There were over 500 applicants for the job. 有500多人申请这份工作。
  • He was impressed by the high calibre of applicants for the job. 求职人员出色的能力给他留下了深刻印象。
3 capes
碎谷; 斗篷( cape的名词复数 ); 披肩; 海角; 岬
  • It was cool and they were putting on their capes. 夜里阴冷,他们都穿上了披风。
  • The pastor smiled to give son's two Capes five cents money. 牧师微笑着给了儿子二角五分钱。
4 calamity
n.灾害,祸患,不幸事件
  • Even a greater natural calamity cannot daunt us. 再大的自然灾害也压不垮我们。
  • The attack on Pearl Harbor was a crushing calamity.偷袭珍珠港(对美军来说)是一场毁灭性的灾难。
5 full-time
adj.满工作日的或工作周的,全时间的
  • A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
  • I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顾家庭又要全天工作,我不知道她是如何对付的。
6 glamorous
adj.富有魅力的;美丽动人的;令人向往的
  • The south coast is less glamorous but full of clean and attractive hotels.南海岸魅力稍逊,但却有很多干净漂亮的宾馆。
  • It is hard work and not a glamorous job as portrayed by the media.这是份苦差,并非像媒体描绘的那般令人向往。
学英语单词
acute brain disorder
air-filtering
alternate plan
among the people
anticryptic colo(u)rs
bacaudae
balfes
baufrey
best-dresseds
bind oneself
bjarne
Bohr atom model
box on
brady plan
cahore pt.
Cape Breton Highlands National Park
Changamire
cinguluma
Cinnamin
closed-cell stratocumulus
coefficient of corrosion
conducting channel
contract for service
corbicular
critical deformation energy
crown-beards
CSRDA
cytidyl-cytidyl-adenyl
decreolisations
delta conversion
design recurrence interval
digital signature key management services
dredge area
enervate
evening primroses
expansionless
field school
fig waxes
flashes back
g gad tongs
gap-lathe
gentilized
genus styracosauruss
Greenwich meantime
guizhous
guldahl
hexadecimal numbering system
hydraulicon
incombustible lining
infinitive variable gear box
institute for promoting aboriginal education
instrument board dial glass
isoelectric precipition
jackholes
Labrador fish
lasagnes
lay-out
macroclimatically
Maioli
Manihiki
maxima minima
minetisite
mkrtchyans
Moro's tests
morther
mutagenic carcinogen
n-dodecylamine chloride
Nikoban
no-eye
Nomilin
nonsaturation magnetic recording
nurserymaid
Octomoxine
offence of counterfeiting bank notes
on one's honor
onshore winds
Paso de las Piedras
pedotubule
phon
plumbi peroxidum
progressive combustion
pseudoretraction
Puestow procedure
pyrite shelf roaster
Quy My
reproductive strategy
rolling mill machinery
Scolytidae
scotch the snake
selfosculation
significant improvement
squooshing
status latch
streetlings
superhigh frequency (shf)
tetrahedrite-tennantite series
time cost trade off
timekeepers
tsotsis
wieser
Wonyulgunna, Mt.
z'p