时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   Joey slipped on some ice and hit his head. He came to in a hospital. A nurse asked how he felt. He said, "Fine. Did you have red grapes, a boiled egg, and green tea for breakfast?" She asked, "How did you know?" He said, "That's what your breath smells like." Amazed, she called her supervisor 1. Many doctors examined Joey. Joey had acquired the sense of smell of a dog. DEA hired him to sniff 2 people and baggage entering the country. Joey's nose detected a million dollars' worth of drugs every day. He was the agency’s "top dog." But as months went by, Joey changed. He stopped shaving. He stopped getting haircuts. He stopped using deodorant 3. He started giving cats the evil eye. DEA had to let him go after he started sniffing 4 travelers' butts 5. However, his ex-boss said, "If he starts running around on all fours, we'll rehire him."



1 supervisor
n.监督人,管理人,检查员,督学,主管,导师
  • Between you and me I think that new supervisor is a twit.我们私下说,我认为新来的主管人是一个傻瓜。
  • He said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor.他说我太轻浮不能成为一名好的管理员。
2 sniff
vi.嗅…味道;抽鼻涕;对嗤之以鼻,蔑视
  • The police used dogs to sniff out the criminals in their hiding - place.警察使用警犬查出了罪犯的藏身地点。
  • When Munchie meets a dog on the beach, they sniff each other for a while.当麦奇在海滩上碰到另一条狗的时候,他们会彼此嗅一会儿。
3 deodorant
adj.除臭的;n.除臭剂
  • She applies deodorant to her armpits after she showers.沐浴后,她在腋下涂上除臭剂。
  • Spray deodorant and keep the silk garments dry before dressing.在穿衣之前,洒涂防臭剂并保持干燥。
4 sniffing
n.探查法v.以鼻吸气,嗅,闻( sniff的现在分词 );抽鼻子(尤指哭泣、患感冒等时出声地用鼻子吸气);抱怨,不以为然地说
  • We all had colds and couldn't stop sniffing and sneezing. 我们都感冒了,一个劲地抽鼻子,打喷嚏。
  • They all had colds and were sniffing and sneezing. 他们都伤风了,呼呼喘气而且打喷嚏。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
5 butts
笑柄( butt的名词复数 ); (武器或工具的)粗大的一端; 屁股; 烟蒂
  • The Nazis worked them over with gun butts. 纳粹分子用枪托毒打他们。
  • The house butts to a cemetery. 这所房子和墓地相连。
学英语单词
absurdo
advertisement tax
alpe-adrias
antikala-azar drug
atwater factor
autoxidizes
boy parts
broeder
bulk plant operator
burning quality index
casasola de arion
cascaded decoder
cauterisations
Chang-ik
channellized time dividing
chiniquodontids
chorioepithelium
compression lesion
concierge
convection process
coupled wave theory
cp code (cyclic permuted code)
cultivated area
cutter-offer
dazibaos
discrete shape
donathan
elastomeric contact switching
electric outlet
enroute support team
extraction tube
fail soft
Fowey
front feed
gas equation
groin vault
growth by intussusception
heptalenes
hispellinus callicanthus
hoe tap
incompressible ideal fluid mechanics
interplast
irregular anagalactic nebula
is of little value
isoionic protein
ivory-type
Jablochkoff
jacquard knitting machine
jolley
kazmi
Kelman cryotool
koulis
lead position
lemyra wernerthomasi
letterwood
log-linear regression equation
lysosome (de duve et al. 1955)
make mischief betweem
marcasitolite (marcasite)
megachile pseudomonticola
mica cloth
mobile business intelligence
Murutinga do Sul
netgoth
November-meteors
on-demand server
outhiring
phanerochaete commixtoides
phenotypic stability (lewis 1954)
phospho acid
planting-dagger
Quatre-Bras
quinquevirs
resident compiler
second intermediate rolls
side cutting
soft bone
somatic death
special finishing hydrated lime
special optical fiber for electric power
stop cutting machine
stridden
studiomasters
subjoinder
sublevel fill stoping
sugar-coated
talipes arcuatus
Tantilla
Thomsen disease
to eye
top bridge
total burn-off fuel
trachytic
transverse crest
trigonopoda ovalipennis
two-phase ground
Unverricht's familial myoclonus
US House of Representatives
viragos
with sth in mind
yaw sensing accelerometer
zeybeckikos (greece)