英语第一次练习

1. Should we change the legal marriage age to 18?

• three points, corresponding examples, summary

should not change the legal marriage

1. mindset is immature, and finance dont allow they to be responsible for a family
2. for most people, 18 years old is the age of learning, not thinking of marriage
3. for student dropped out of school, they are not mature to start a family
4. natural population growth rate is higher than eourpean countries
   summary: change the legal marriage age to 18, make illegal marriage to legal

2. phrases

• lose sleep 失眠

  lose sleep about/over sth -> to worry about something

• turbulent time 心情反复，动荡时间
• down in the dumps 愁眉苦脸

  unhappy

• scrape up 积攒,凑齐

  to manage with great difficulty to collect enough of something, especially money, or to find the things or people that you need

• annual leave年假

  a paid number of days each year that an employee is allowed to be away from work

• take a loan贷款/向你借一点（可以是其他东西）
• use up sth用光

  to finish a supply of something

• keep your mouth shut闭口不谈

  to not talk about something

3. speech

• try my luck in some major way?

outline：
choose a major after college entrance examination
chinese student chooser their major after getting the score
so, we can only reference the last year’s enrollent situation.
For example

4. sentence making

• take it out on 对…发泄

  he shouldn’t take it out on others when he failed.

• under the banner of打着…旗号

  U.S. sanctions China under the banner of trade。

• on the face of it乍看起来

  on the face of it, the question is easy ，but when you want to figure out it, you will find it difficult.

• under one’s breath屏住呼吸

  let’s talk under our breath.

• light at the end of the tunnel终见曙光

  we see light at the end of tunnel after struggling thoughout the whole year.