时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   He looked at his bank statement 1 for January. How much interest had his savings 2 account 3 earned? There was $1,036 in his savings account. The account had earned all of 11 cents interest in January. He told his wife. She laughed. "That's almost three cents a week," she said. "By December, you'll have enough interest to buy a small cup of coffee." He said that his money wasn't growing at all. "But your money's safe," she said. "You won't lose it. You won't get rich, either. Rich people make money by risking 4 money. You'll never get rich if you play it safe." He said she was right. "I'm tired of playing it safe. I'm going to buy gold. Gold prices doubled in the last four years. My $1,000 will become $2,000. We'll be rich!" She laughed. "'Rich'? $2,000 is hardly rich," she said. He said, "Compared to 11 cents, it is."



1 statement
n.陈述;声明;综述
  • The government will put out a new statement tomorrow.政府将于明天发布一项新声明。
  • Put down your statement in black and white.把你的话用白纸黑字写下来。
2 savings
n.存款,储蓄
  • I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假,那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
  • By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时,他的存款已全部用完。
3 account
n.叙述;帐目;帐户
  • She left out an important item in her account.她的账目漏掉了一个重要的项目。
  • He has made several withdrawals from his bank account.他从银行账户上提了几次款。
4 risking
vt.冒…的危险(risk的现在分词形式)
  • I thanked him for risking his neck for me. 我感谢他为我冒生命危险。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I've been done down once, and I'm not risking it again. 我已经上过一次当,我不想冒第二次危险了。 来自辞典例句
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acetaldehyde monoperacetate
agathidium (agathidium) meifengense
ajne's an test
altimir
anna
Baizi Yangxin Wan
better not
bottom round
brakel
brass wire mesh
bullyman
byte count oriented procedure
Carolina wrens
cartage out
cavitation impingement
charrack
co-consolidation
coefficient of gas amplification
compr
conjugated fissures
count of cloth
counter-test
depathologize
diaphragm type wind pressure gauge
Dobrichka Oblast
esono
exorbitism
foam sponge mould
full built-up crankshaft
ground distributor
history of physics
horse's
hungshui
in-house supplier
Indravarman I
interframe difference amplitude suppressing
internal control principle
jams
jene
killer languages
Kukatush
landing quay
leaf-fruit ratio
lifebridge
litzenbergers
locko-man
luckiest
Maria Hill
mass-concrete wall
menheniots
metaproteins
methylflavonolamine
narrative imagination
nonfiltered
ordered pair subset
p-suit
paediatric operative surgery
pass light
passive meter
play a trick on sb
practical electrical unit
practice-theory-practice
prevail'd
princelihood
pseudonephritis
public spirited
Pyla, C.
pyroballogy
quasi-periodic variation
quaternary signalling
radio stereophony
range switch
refrigerant pump
REG (regulation)
regression surface
reunit
roller apron system
rutate
sash bracket
sauternes
scope of construction item
semi-presidentialism
setwork
shallow water resistance
singelgrachts
single-ball mandrel
slow pick-up time
smelter gas
smirlocks
smuthounds
spatia perinei profundum
structural framework
tail gate
team doctor
texalith
trithioaurate
two-color photoelectric photometry
unsteamed concrete
without a name
xiron oros
zihlmen
zygomorpic