3.3 表 示 职 业
在下面这种“名词加名词”结构中,前面的名词表示职业。
1. Four months after she arrived, the Ethiopian government collapsed, and her
diplomat father was imprisoned, leaving Aberra without any financial resources.
阿贝拉到达这里 4 个月后,埃塞俄比亚政府垮台了,她的外交官父亲被监禁,她
因此失去了经济来源。
2. All across China, towns like New Song jiang are built on the backs of migrant
workers—people who have moved from other provinces to earn better money as
construction workers.
在中国各地,像新松江这样的城镇是建立在农民工——来自外省为了多挣钱而到
建筑工地上打工的那些人——的脊梁上的。
3. a research physician. 一名从事研究的医师。
4. I remember I could see duck farmers looking across Shenzhen river.
我记得我能够看到从深圳河对岸向这边观望的鸭农。
5. a banana farmer. 种香蕉的农民。
6. a banana town. 种香蕉的小镇。
7. a historian father. 父亲是历史学者。
8. construction foreman. 建筑工头。
9. her director husband. 她的丈夫是导演。
10. a god father, a human mother. 神父,人母(父亲是神,母亲是凡人)。
11. She worked as an ale wife, making and selling ale.
她过去是一名酒妇,从事买酒卖酒。
12. It’s a kill job. 杀人的活。
13. strike team. 突击队。
14. grab team. 抓捕队。
15. exploration party. 探险队。
词 汇 积 累
1. distribution n 分布;分配
a . We had a good distribution across all schools. 所有学校都做了很好的宣传。
b. distribution of food. 分配食物。
2. distrust n 不信任
cultural distrust. 文化上的不信任。
3. dive n 潜水;跳水;俯冲;扑
a more deep dive into that subject. 更深入探讨那个主题。
4. divergence n 分歧
reduce regional divergence. 区域分歧。
“convergence”(指意见)自四面八方向一点汇合;(意见)趋同。
5. diversity n 多样性;差异
great intolerance of diversity. 对多元性的不可容忍。