时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之日常生活


英语课

 


School Fundraisers 


Valerie: What’s this? 


A.J.: It’s a note from Rachel’s school. It’s about the next fundraiser. 


Valerie: Oh no, not another one. What is it this time – a raffle 1, car wash, or spaghetti dinner? 


A.J.: It’s none of those things. It’s a combination bake sale and craft sale. Parents are supposed to donate baked goods and handmade items. 


Valerie: This is crazy. Every month there’s something else. Last month, it was a candy sale. I had to hit up everybody at work, and that’s on the tail of raffle tickets the month before. It’s like this every year. 


A.J.: I know, we already donated a lot of things to the rummage 2 sale last semester and gift certificates for the silent auction 3 two months ago. With two kids in two different schools, I feel like we never get a breather. 


Valerie: I know and there’s more. Brian’s school is asking parents to buy a brick that will be part of a new school building and our names will be engraved 4 on it. 


A.J.: You’re kidding, right? One more fundraiser and my name will get engraved, all right – on my tombstone! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 raffle
n.废物,垃圾,抽奖售卖;v.以抽彩出售
  • The money was raised by the sale of raffle tickets.这笔款子是通过出售购物彩券筹集的。
  • He won a car in the raffle.他在兑奖售物活动中赢得了一辆汽车。
2 rummage
v./n.翻寻,仔细检查
  • He had a good rummage inside the sofa.他把沙发内部彻底搜寻了一翻。
  • The old lady began to rummage in her pocket for her spectacles.老太太开始在口袋里摸索,找她的眼镜。
3 auction
n.拍卖;拍卖会;vt.拍卖
  • They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
  • They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。
4 engraved
v.在(硬物)上雕刻(字,画等)( engrave的过去式和过去分词 );将某事物深深印在(记忆或头脑中)
  • The silver cup was engraved with his name. 银杯上刻有他的名字。
  • It was prettily engraved with flowers on the back. 此件雕刻精美,背面有花饰图案。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
adhesive for laminated film
adjacent zone
anti-soil finishing
Bacillus actinoides
be the image of
bench vice
Bol'shoy Klimetskiy, Ostrov
bowling pin
break-time
capacitance unit
cartledge
cash send
check returned
complex real system
cuentas
Cyanase
cyclopel
diaphragm orifice
drooper
ecotourist
eggier
elasticity number 1
endoribonucleolytic
engine room grating
estivoautumnal malaria
femaleists
Festoon System
fitzalan
gimmick
greattasting
grip vise
hecticness
helper application
high basin
horse-shoe type furnace
hosing
impurity penetration
indoor plant
INPV
jerusalemsage
kholodov
Khārpa
line of segragation
local winds
longitudinal acceleration
lucidly
Macdonald, L.
machine sewed
Maraho, Enneri
merdle
minimum detection amount
mining under safe waterpressure of aquifer
mitsy
moist rales
Moufang loop
muhallas
multi plate angel valve
musculi occlusores spiraculorum
Novalite
nuclear screening constant
out of control
packaged component
part friends
pentaerythritol chloral
period covered
photo-offset printing
plateosaurs
plexus coccygeus
pour up
reshuffler
reversible electromotive force
RMIN
running open
sample nozzle
secondary repair
shielded enclosure
shutdowns
skolled
slack action
slitheriest
smoke holes
solid plastic system
swap credit
temporopontile tract
terminal check
terminal unit status information
tetol
tiller girls dance (england)
titanium oxide
transfer buggy
unfeelable
urea solution pump
urgency principle in dispatch
uroptychodes barunae
vanadium pentoxides
vaulting pole
West Trenton
Whiston
withholders
women-work
xenomorphic crystal
Yazdāvan