时间:2018-12-29 作者:英语课 分类:英语课程学习计划和讲义


英语课

Buy Nothing Day is a great way of reminding yourself you don’t need to go shopping. In today’s world, most of us buy too much, too often. There is really no need for us to buy half the stuff 1 we purchase. In fact, make that three-quarters, or even nine-tenths. Shopping has become an addiction  for many people. Companies are experts at making us buy stuff. TV and Internet ads can even make us buy things we don’t really want. There is a well-known bumper 2 sticker that says: “When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.” I would say only foolish people go shopping to reduce their stress. Anyway, Buy Nothing Day is a fantastic way to avoid crowded stores, save some money (for once) and spend time wisely.


Lots of ideas on how to spend this day are on the www.buynothingday.org website. Here, you learn that you actually help save our planet 3 by not going shopping. You consume 4 less and this means we use fewer of Earth’s resources. We easily run out of money when we go shopping, but we can also run out of our planet’s animals, forests, water and a lot more. The website suggests you lock your credit 5 card away for the day and keep your cash under the bed. You will not be alone. The website says: “Buy Nothing Day is the biggest 24-hour [campaign] against consumerism. People around the world will make a pact 6 to take a break from shopping as a personal experiment or public statement. And the best thing is, it’s free."



n.原料,材料,东西;vt.填满;吃饱
  • We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
  • He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。
n.(汽车上的)保险杠;adj.特大的,丰盛的
  • The painting represents the scene of a bumper harvest.这幅画描绘了丰收的景象。
  • This year we have a bumper harvest in grain.今年我们谷物丰收。
n.行星
  • Neptune is the furthest planet from the sun. 海王星是离太阳最远的行星。
  • Rubbish, however, is only part of the problem of polluting our planet. 然而, 垃圾只是我们这个星球的污染问题的一个方面。
vt.花费,消费;毁灭;vi.消费掉;枯萎
  • They generally consume more power and take up more space,too.它们通常消耗更多的能量,并且占用更多的空间。
  • The British consume a vast amount of tea each year.英国人每年消费大量的茶叶。
n.信用,荣誉,贷款,学分;v.归功于,赞颂,信任
  • I credit him with a certain amount of sense.我认为他有一定的见识。
  • He got the credit,and we did the dirty work.他得荣誉,我们做不讨好的工作。
n.合同,条约,公约,协定
  • The two opposition parties made an electoral pact.那两个反对党订了一个有关选举的协定。
  • The trade pact between those two countries came to an end.那两国的通商协定宣告结束。
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a blot on
advockaat
ailurophils
alder-leaved serviceberry
alignment of resonator
Amphibious vessel
anaptyctically
antenna changeover
arrangement that reduces the overall space requirement
assemblyline production
automatic train dispatcher
ball inclinometer
basis of integers
beta-amylase
BGQ60
bodily seismic wave
bra top
camarilloes
Cirsium serratuloides
college campus
computer interface
computing element
controlled leakage seal
crossmodulation
cut off relay
dew point temperature
dispensa
disturbance band
dolopichthys pullatus
double eagle
down light
eggcrate overhang
embryopathy
ethionamide
ethylthiosulfonic acid
explosive flame
family Atrichornithidae
food reservoir
geomagnetic dispole
get sth right
gnathophausia ingens
Hadfield's manganese steel
haycation
higher aliphatic amine
hoisting barrel
hold your ground
hypnotic induction
inspection by template
interturn short circuit test
kicky-wicky
kontuly
Kubango
late autumn crop
lock-and-follow scanner
louis-dreyfus
low-speed memory
lubricant SCD
magnetic spectrograph
mascled
Mason's splint
methylhomodaphniphyllate
monolithically
moon-earth transportation system
multimixers
natural air
nebrodi(nebrodie mts.)
no Solomon
normal full pool elevation
note-pads
nuclear warheads
officinalis
phosphoacetic acid
pigs might fly!
plano-boring and milling machine
propelling unit of tbm
pukis
pygahrix nemaeus
quaighs
residual mean square
ruthenocene
Rwanda franc
sanitist
scoutcrafts
self-commutated convertor
selflevelling
skirtron
speedos
split outer race bearing
stratum basilaris
take the curtain
tipsy
tractus spinothalamicus
trethowans
valenciennea wardii
veather
vertical partition wall
vessel bottom head
vibration TMT
visceral cranium
water reducing admixture
wave front reconstruction microscopy
wire strand