北师大初中英语八年级上--Unit6 24-2

[00:03.85]Exercise 1.4
[00:07.69]Work it out
[00:09.82]We'll invite our friends and neighbors.
[00:13.01]We won't tell him about the party.
[00:16.68]You will help me.
[00:19.12]You won't make a cake.
[00:22.07]I won't make a mess¹.
[00:28.79]Exercise 2.1
[00:31.28]Celebrations Around the World
[00:33.55]In many countries,
[00:35.33]when people blow out the candles
[00:37.68]on their birthday cake,
[00:39.45]they make a wish.
[00:41.69]They say that
[00:43.16]if you blow out all the candles in one go,
[00:46.78]your wish will come true.
[00:50.05]In France, when they light the candles
[00:53.47]on the birthday cake,
[00:55.49]people take off a ring from their finger and
[00:59.21]they drop it around a candle.
[01:02.47]This, so people believe,
[01:05.79]will give them good luck.
[01:08.84]In Mexico,people celebrate Epiphany
[01:14.00](January 6th) with a special cake.
[01:17.52]Hidden inside each cake there is a small,
[01:21.06]plastic doll figure².
[01:23.77]By tradition³,
[01:25.61]the person who finds the little doll in his
[01:28.92]or her piece of cake
[01:30.52]will invite everybody to eat on February 2.
[01:30.52]

1 mess   

vt.将…弄糟，混乱，妨碍，使紊乱；n.食堂，伙食，用膳，一份食品，混乱，乱七八糟，困境

参考例句：

• Don't mess up my homework.不要弄乱我的家庭作业。
• You'll mess up my hair.你会把我的头发弄乱.

2 figure   

n.数字，算术，图解；轮廓；vi.计算，出现，扮演角色；vt.计算在内，估计，推测，认为

参考例句：

• I will check up the figure.我来核对一下这个数字。
• I'm watching my figure.我一直注意保持身材。

3 tradition   

n.传说，传统，惯例，引渡，交付

参考例句：

• This tradition has lasted until our own time.这一传统一直保持到我们这个时代。
• They still follow the tradition of their fathers.他们仍然继承着他们祖先的传统。