小初词汇 每周积累Day 4

She applied for a job with the local newspaper.

她申请了当地报社的一个职位。

apply    /əˈplaɪ/    v.申请；应用

例句：I advise that they apply to the council for a home improvement grant.我建议他们向市政会申请改善住房的贷款。

          In this way they can better apply theory to practice.这样他们就能更好地把理论运用到实践中去。

搭配：apply … to把……应用于，运用        apply to适用于        apply (to sb.) for（向……）申请，请求

job    /dʒɒb/    n.工作

例句：Amy’s job is to operate the new machine that was bought last week.艾米的工作是开上周买的新机器。

考点：job是常考单词，同学们一定要掌握其与work的用法区别。

          在作名词，表示“一件工作”时，job是可数名词，而work是不可数名词。

          例句：He got a job as a waiter.他找到一份服务员的工作。

                    Cooking is not an easy job.做饭不是一件容易的事。

                    My brother is looking for work.我的哥哥正在找工作。

                    Our teacher gave us a lot of work to do today.老师今天给我们布置了很多作业。

local    /ˈləʊkl/    adj.当地的；地方的    n.本地人

例句：During the war, the old lady was protected by a local family in Shanghai in her fifties.战争期间，这位老妇人在她50多岁时受到上海一户人家的保护。

          I’m a local.我是本地人。

newspaper    /ˈnjuːzpeɪpə/    n.报纸

例句：What a wonderful newspaper21st Century is!《21世纪报》是一份多么好的报纸啊！

          The story in the newspaper sounds true, but where did the woman journalist get it?报纸上的这篇报道听起来很真实，女记者是从哪儿得到的呢？

标的单词为中考核心词汇。