时间:2018-12-29 作者:英语课 分类:英语课程学习计划和讲义


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National High Five Day is on the third Thursday of April every year. This unusual holiday started at the University of Virginia in the USA in 2002. Since then, it has slowly grown in popularity 1 around America. It is also spreading to different countries around the world. The day celebrates one of America’s invented gestures of the twentieth century. It is a common part of life in America today and around the world when people have something they want to jointly 2 celebrate. You most often see it in sport, when two teammates will raise their arms and give each other’s hands a slap. Television has spread the gesture everywhere and you can see it wherever you go in the world. Both men and women use it to celebrate.


The High Five website speculates 3 that the gesture started with an American basketball player called Mont Skeets, one of the greatest players ever to play for Murray State University. Legend has it that when Mont was three years old, his father’s army friends would visit. They were all from the 5th infantry 4 division. The young Mont didn’t know their names so would greet them by saying “Hi, Five”. The former soldiers replied by slapping Mont’s up-stretched arm. When Mont grew up and started playing basketball, he adapted his greeting to use it with his teammates when they got points. The “Hi, Five” became a “high five” and the celebration became contagious 5. In a short space of time it had spread throughout the basketball world.



n.普及,流行,名望,受欢迎
  • The story had an extensive popularity among American readers.这本小说在美国读者中赢得广泛的声望。
  • Our product enjoys popularity throughout the world.我们的产品饮誉全球。
ad.联合地,共同地
  • Tenants are jointly and severally liable for payment of the rent. 租金由承租人共同且分别承担。
  • She owns the house jointly with her husband. 她和丈夫共同拥有这所房子。
思索,猜测,推测( speculate的第三人称单数 ); 投机
  • And then look at the way he speculates in government bonds: huh! 他又要做公债——哼! 来自子夜部分
  • Cameron defends Cole and House speculates that she wants to control him. Cameron保护Cole,House推测她想控制他。
n.[总称]步兵(部队)
  • The infantry were equipped with flame throwers.步兵都装备有喷火器。
  • We have less infantry than the enemy.我们的步兵比敌人少。
adj.传染性的,有感染力的
  • It's a highly contagious infection.这种病极易传染。
  • He's got a contagious laugh.他的笑富有感染力。
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access verb
additional demand
akanthus
aldsworth
C. H.
canouan i.
capacitance-temperature characteristic
caption blanking
charbray cattle
chronicization
clack dish
coating fracture strain
contingent consumption income
cosmarchy
dairy cream
daphnella olyra
dells
Demasorb
dial hood
diffused light
dl-terahydropalmatine
elementarism
ellend
Elster
equilibrium relative humidity
erbium
evviva
Far West
Febreze shower
foofier
four-bladed
full normal space
genus Upupa
graniform
graph theoretic concept
group method of depreciation
gullan
heavy feed
hematotoxicology
hibbett
hide and go seeks
holometabolas
Holzweiler
in time of
incorporation into bitumen
inland revenue department
Kaskelen
leose
maraka
mentohyoid
metamorphine
mordents
Mustafa Kemal
open garden dancing place
overwhelmingly
panel automatic system
phoma dauci arx
photocureable coating
physical culture
plexus oesophageus anterior
potentiometer set mode
precyaterone
premonitorily
protrusion allowance
radioactive tracer method
range oil
recurrent abortion
right of first publication
sample autocorrelations
Scorzonera pamirica
secondary service
separating seedling
series mode interference rejection ratio
session control
Shalav
shursee
sinistro-
specific nuclear fuel power
Statute of Merton
storm transposition
talladega
thaw collapse
thermofractograph
three-pole single-throw switch
through-space
to connect material
to intercept
to my great relief
tomashevsky
tribromo-ether
unfrankness
unrefreshful
utility surplus
valve case
Van Der Waals co-volume
Veronica semiamplexicaulis
very-high-speed computer
vl-
Voluntary Import Control Program
wasmuth
Wilburite
ziofascism