读英文原著《Wonder/奇迹男孩》学单词 107

Part Eight: August - Day One

ride

a journey in a vehicle, when you are not driving

Can you give me a ride back to town?

A fifteen minute taxi ride will take you to the airport.

scissors

/ˈsɪzərz/

a tool for cutting paper, cloth etc, made of two sharp blades fastened together in the middle, with holes for your finger and thumb
剪刀

block out

• to stop light or noise from coming in
  挡住，遮住（光线或声音）

  Black clouds blocked out the sun.

• to stop yourself from thinking about or remembering sth unpleasant
  忘掉，抹去（不愉快的事）

  Over the years she had tried to block out that part of her life.

whistle

/ˈwɪsl/

吹口哨

I heard this song on the radio and I’ve been whistling it all day.
我在收音机里听到这首歌，就吹了一整天这个调子的口哨。

soaked

/soʊkt/

very wet or wearing very wet clothes

It was raining so hard we were quickly soaked through (=completely wet).

Her shoes got soaked as she walked through the wet grass.

goof off

to waste time or avoid doing any work

He’s been goofing off at school.

rec room

/ˈrek rʊm/

a recreation room

Ping-Pong = table tennis

an indoor game played on a table by two people with a small plastic ball and two bats

arcade game

/ɑːrˈkeɪd/

a type of electronic game that was first popular in amusement arcades (=a place where you play games by putting coins in machines) in the early 1980s, but is now usually played on a computer
（游戏厅的）电子游戏

cookout

a party or occasion when a meal is cooked and eaten outdoors
露天烧烤餐，野外烧烤餐

a cookout on the beach

roast

/roʊst/

to cook something, such as meat, in an oven or over a fire, or to cook in this way
烤 （肉等）

Are you going to roast the chicken?

mosquitoe

/məˈskiːtoʊ/

a small flying insect that sucks the blood of people and animals, sometimes spreading the disease malaria
蚊子

tons of something

a lot of something

I’ve got tons of work to do.
我有很多工作要做。

spritz

/sprɪts/

to spray small amounts of a liquid on something
喷洒