Laughter is good for you
section3 words and expressions from the text
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1. i am sitting on an invisible bench, of course. (page 14) 当然，我正坐在一张看不见的椅子上。
invisible
adj. 1) impossible to see:
the aircraft is designed to be invisible to radar.
these bacteria are invisible unless viewed with a microscope.
2) [before noun] describes money that is added to a country's economy by activities such as the service and financial industries rather than the production of goods in factories:
an increase in invisible exports
tourism brings in 40% of the island's invisible earnings.
相关高考试题
you can see the stars on a clear night, but in the daytime they are ________. (XX年上海)
a unavoidable b invisible c inaccessible d unavailable
答案: b
2 you should join us. it’s nice and cosy. (page 14) 你应该加入我们。它很好，很舒服。
cosy
adj. comfortable and pleasant, especially (of a building) because small and warm:
this room is nice and cosy in the winter.
he showed me into a cosy little room.
3 mike looks annoyed.(page 14) 迈克看起来生气了。
annoyed
adj. angry:
i was so annoyed with him for turning up late.
he was annoyed at the way she tried to take over the whole meeting.
my parents were rather annoyed (that) i hadn't told them about the accident.
she was annoyed to discover that her husband had taken her car keys.
annoying
adj. making you feel annoyed:
it's really annoying when a train is late and there's no explanation.
he's got a really annoying laugh.
annoy
vt. to make someone angry:
tim really annoyed me in the meeting this morning.
i'm sorry - is my cough annoying you?
[+ that] it annoys me that she just expects us to help.
it really annoys me when people expect me to tip as well as pay a service charge in a restaurant.
4 mike stands up and wanders over to the middle of the stage and “sits” down.(page14)
迈克站起来，走到舞台中间，并坐下。
wanders
vi. or vt. to walk around slowly in a relaxed way or without any clear purpose or direction:
we spent the morning wandering around the old part of the city.
she was found several hours later, wandering the streets, lost.
he was here a moment ago but he's wandered off somewhere.
5 it got too crowded, so i moved the bench.（page 14）凳子太拥挤了，所以我把它移走了。
crowded
adj. if a place is crowded, it is full of people:
by ten o'clock the bar was crowded.
