英語角-圓桌會議 RoundTable - 世界杯與中國足球

Topic 1: The World Cup & the Chinese Football
Despite the Chinese national team failing to qualify, again, the country is crazy about the World Cup.

Fans stay up late to watch games, some restless fans even died watching the World Cup. World Cup widows complain that they will be ignored by their husbands during the month-long event. Hardline fans buy sick leave notes online in order to watch the tournament, and some even have resigned simply to follow the matches.

While in Brazil, Chinese soccer reporters were asked by the locals, "what are you doing here if the Chinese national team is not here?"Why the craze?

Topic 2: Shanghai Metro admits special access inadequate
The Shanghai Metro authority has recently admitted that access facilities for people with special requirements are inadequate2 at older stations.

Accessibility for commuters with special requirements has been in the spotlight this week after 10 commuters were injured on an escalator at People's Square station last Wednesday, after a baby stroller became jammed at the top.

Is there a serious inadequacy?

Topic 3 Can Physique Intervention Class Improve Kids' Posture
A survey in Beijing shows that more than 80% students in the city have physique problems in writing, sitting and standing postures, among which holding pens too low is the biggest one. To solve these problems, Beijing's primary and middle schools will promote a physique intervention course.

Is there a problem?

Topic 4: Better cars=more girls
In 2013, the national population census report shows that there are 11 million leftover men in China, referring to single guys in their 30s. If they all have a fancy sports car, things might be much easier.

Recently, an online program did an experiment that shows if a guy drives an expensive car and hits on girls, the success rate can be as high as 70%.

What is this show?

1 metro

n.地鐵;adj.大都市的;(METRO)麥德隆(財富500強公司之一總部所在地德國，主要經(jīng)營零售)

參考例句：

Can you reach the park by metro?你可以乘地鐵到達那個公園嗎?

The metro flood gate system is a disaster prevention equipment.地鐵防淹門系統(tǒng)是一種防災設備。

2 inadequate

adj.(for,to)不充足的，不適當?shù)?/p>

參考例句：

The supply is inadequate to meet the demand.供不應求。

She was inadequate to the demands that were made on her.她還無力滿足對她提出的各項要求。

3 spotlight

n.公眾注意的中心，聚光燈，探照燈，視聽，注意，醒目

參考例句：

This week the spotlight is on the world of fashion.本周引人矚目的是時裝界。

The spotlight followed her round the stage.聚光燈的光圈隨著她在舞臺上轉(zhuǎn)。

4 inadequacy

n.無法勝任，信心不足

參考例句：

the inadequacy of our resources 我們的資源的貧乏

The failure is due to the inadequacy of preparations. 這次失敗是由于準備不足造成的。

5 intervention

n.介入，干涉，干預

參考例句：

The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府對這場爭論的干預不會起作用。

Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.許多人覺得他會反對外來干預。

6 standing

n.持續(xù)，地位;adj.永久的，不動的，直立的，不流動的

參考例句：

After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震過后只有幾幢房屋還立著。

They're standing out against any change in the law.他們堅決反對對法律做任何修改。

7 postures

姿勢( posture的名詞復數(shù) ); 看法; 態(tài)度; 立場

參考例句：

Modern consciousness has this great need to explode its own postures. 現(xiàn)代意識很有這種摧毀本身姿態(tài)的需要。

They instinctively gathered themselves into more tidy postures. 她們本能地恢復了端莊的姿態(tài)。

8 census

n.(官方的)人口調(diào)查，人口普查

參考例句：

A census of population is taken every ten years.人口普查每10年進行一次。

The census is taken one time every four years in our country.我國每四年一次人口普查。

9 leftover

n.剩貨，殘留物，剩飯;adj.殘余的

參考例句：

These narrow roads are a leftover from the days of horse-drawn carriages.這些小道是從馬車時代沿用下來的。

Wonder if that bakery lets us take leftover home.不知道那家糕餅店會不會讓我們把賣剩的帶回家。