时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


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An 80-year-old woman died Tuesday afternoon in a fire. The blaze was reported about 2:30 p.m. at a home on Sunnyside Avenue. The victim was identified as Mary Cass. Her husband, Roy Cass, 80, was not at home at the time of the fire. Investigators 1 from the local fire department were trying to determine the exact cause of the fire. They said it looked like the woman had fallen asleep on the sofa with a cigarette in her hand.


The value of the home was estimated at $700,000. The Casses were married in 1945. Both of them had been smokers 2 throughout most of their lives.


Mr. Cass said, “Six months ago, we decided 3 to quit smoking, because we wanted to live to be 100. So we went to a smoking cessation clinic. The clinic worked! We both managed to quit a month ago. At least I thought we both did. I can't believe she was smoking behind my back.”


Mr. Cass started sobbing 4 after his remarks. He repeatedly cried out his wife’s name. Authorities took him to a nursing home where he could be kept under surveillance.


“We’ve had too many instances of long-time married couples who, if they discover their spouse 5 is dead, commit suicide within 48 hours,” said a nursing home spokesperson. “Mr. Cass’s behavior has been erratic 6, from talking nonstop to crying to staring vacantly. We are going to have to watch him closely.”


 



n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
吸烟者( smoker的名词复数 )
  • Many smokers who are chemically addicted to nicotine cannot cut down easily. 许多有尼古丁瘾的抽烟人不容易把烟戒掉。
  • Chain smokers don't care about the dangers of smoking. 烟鬼似乎不在乎吸烟带来的种种危害。
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
<主方>Ⅰ adj.湿透的
  • I heard a child sobbing loudly. 我听见有个孩子在呜呜地哭。
  • Her eyes were red with recent sobbing. 她的眼睛因刚哭过而发红。
n.配偶(指夫或妻)
  • Her spouse will come to see her on Sunday.她的丈夫星期天要来看她。
  • What is the best way to keep your spouse happy in the marriage?在婚姻中保持配偶幸福的最好方法是什么?
adj.古怪的,反复无常的,不稳定的
  • The old man had always been cranky and erratic.那老头儿性情古怪,反复无常。
  • The erratic fluctuation of market prices is in consequence of unstable economy.经济波动致使市场物价忽起忽落。
学英语单词
acetylamino acid
Acolen
Add. T.
amplitude characteristic
Anthoratonite
apparent sun set
ARCMAIL
arteria arcuatas
baitboxes
Benacol
biting-sucking mouthparts
bundle homotopy
camera taking characteristic
cheiroschisis
collapsible pot
command structure
compound screw mechanism
cone-bottom condenser
connected complex
construers
continuous-time signal system
correlation of random noise
cost sb. dearly
crinite
cryogenic magnetic field
Deaflympics
degradation of polymer
diffusion limiting current
diopter dividing ring
discounted cost
Doxi-UM
edge gluer
Elkedra
Exceptional Item
feasts of lights
flooding tank
foredune community
frain
fredholm minor
gomphonema
greater thans
horizon slice
hyperalkaline rock
icelos
image section descriptor
inquisitor gracilispira
islot
jaccalin
Kujama
lemonary
light emitter
Limited Risk
Linotron
load responsible control
maximum breadth
movemetn
multi-trace analysis display
mundivagant
Ngat
nonappetitive
normal element
nozzle closure opening pressure
palace car
palatomaxillary canal
pea flour
period-end balance
peripteroi
phylogeographer
principle of software engineering
pump effective power,pump output power
pushbutton actuator
quantity supplied
railways
ray transformer
refresh graphics
relative-position heuristic
roller-gear cam mechanism
ruficaulis
Rugosofusulina
scabies Norwegian
sciomyzids
sehula bhanjyang
semi-automatic signal
sholoms
Sibbald's rorqual
sizes of it
sonic depth-finding instrument
station message detail recording
structural survey
temperature variation test
thenylpyramine
thraa
toilet soup
torso murder
transaction key
ultraviolet crossliking
underwater excavation
untaught
Ureshino
wandoes
zimler