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
activity therapy
alternating lake
anharmonicities
antibiotic(s)
aperitif
atmosphere gas converter
auxiliary spark gap
Beg your pardon
betavoltaic
brevicipitids
bucking current
buttgenbachite
calcarine fissures
canaliculi caroticotympanici
canape
capitalized purchases
carbasus absorbens
chalcidfly
cheat sheet
chinese descent
classification of freight rate
coltans
concentric float type
countergrav
coupling with non-metallic elastic element
cryogenic separation of pyrolysis gas
cut off grinding
daily intelligence summary
dairy science
de-horns
dead weight piston gauge
double T plate
enwidened
evaporator room
filling of injection pump
fourchite
frank-law
globalized
gooseherd
government saving
guevarisms
ham trier
hemisyncotyly
Herbitox
highbrowism
impact velocity
indeavor
junction conduction
labuans
lipohistiodieresis
Little Scarcies R.
loading capacity
Lothagam
lotus ornament
Lyapunov dimension
mesocosm
metazoonosis
multivariable distribution
musculi obturator internus
N-Methyldiethanolamine
n. cardiacus medius
no competition
object identification
oissels
pale tongue
peanut milk
pellete
persistent vegetative state
phase-to-earth overvoltage per unit
Port Edwards
premoderns
propitiates
Protocol converter.
quarter-sections
query interface
radial magnetic pull
retaineth
retrotranscribing
royline
s7
sacrovaginal
San Quentin quail
sawtooth-wave generator
spiny sow thistle
stand in debt
stretchedness
subharmonic function
take a whack at
tonic reflex
tower smoke oven
train make-up
Trgovište
unfree variation
unrebel
up-escalator
upvs
venous hemorrhage
vestibule end entrance
visual inspection method
Welsh groin
went down on one's knees
Wikstroemia lichiangensis