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
absurdist theatre
accumulation of energy
adolescent cataract
antioxidant activity
asphaltic limestone
astatine analyzer
ball-shape
Benahmed
blood deductible
bonvillian
brown bodies
brush cell
Buprestis sibirica
charangos
chromatid tetrad
coherent infrared arrangement
cold-shoulder
collision force of ship or raft
communication and transportation expenses
condemns
copart
darkness triggered alarm
data conversion system
Difetoin
disc dryer(drier)
discoverance
doppler
East Ringgold
eriovixia sakiedaorum
Ethiquinium
expenditure survey
F-mode record
flangeless valve
full load characteristic
give a wide berth to
grand falls (churchill falls)
Hartmann's fossa
hyperonychosis
identity formation
ilter
indestructibilities
inertia governer
initial contact chatter
injection metamorphism
itis
Ketason
La Caňita
large spins
link control software
lithifaction
marketing decision supporting system
mellisugous
melora
Moretonhampstead
neurogeneses
Noether
overscented
paniculatas
party government
PHS Public Health Service
picea sitchenses
planting depth
Point Hope
presenter
press welding
primodial brain
promulgator
quality of mood?
quenched steel
railroad through transport
ramosetron
recyclists
red mangrove
roll centering
rotary brush cutter for walking tractor
scalar assignment
SCR (silicon-controlled rectifier)
serrate serrated
shelter forest for farmland
slowing down brake
sprocket pitch
spy rings
Strobolian,strombolian
subdepots
Tabory
take photo
taxexempt income
temper pass
the last thing on your mind
three decker
typographical display
Ussuriella
v necks
valvulotomies
varennes
vatson
vibrational motion
Voldemortish
weyand
work style
Yazoo R.