时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   On Easter Sunday, Lee walked into the Plaza 1 Hotel. It's on 59th Street next to Central Park. The foyer had white lilacs and white roses on a center table. People were taking pictures of the flowers and themselves. Lee went further inside. Many people were enjoying lunch in a big dining room. To Lee's left, a woman was playing the piano. Lee didn't recognize the music she was playing. It sounded nice. He listened for a while. He looked at the dining room menu. One entree 2 was $28--too rich for him. He turned right and walked toward 3 a carpeted hallway. As he entered the hallway, he tripped. He caught himself. There was gray duct tape along part of the carpet edge. The taped edge was half an inch above the floor. Lee walked up the hallway. It took him to an exit. He turned around and retraced 4 his steps.



1 plaza
n.广场,市场
  • They designated the new shopping centre York Plaza.他们给这个新购物中心定名为约克购物中心。
  • The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen.这个广场上布满了便衣警察。
2 entree
n.入场权,进入权
  • She made a graceful entree into the ballroom.她进入舞厅时显示非常优雅。
  • Her wealth and reputation gave her entree into upper-class circles.她的财富和声望使她得以进入上层社会。
3 toward
prep.对于,关于,接近,将近,向,朝
  • Suddenly I saw a tall figure approaching toward the policeman.突然间我看到一个高大的身影朝警察靠近。
  • Upon seeing her,I smiled and ran toward her. 看到她我笑了,并跑了过去。
4 retraced
v.折回( retrace的过去式和过去分词 );回忆;回顾;追溯
  • We retraced our steps to where we started. 我们折回我们出发的地方。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • We retraced our route in an attempt to get back on the right path. 我们折返,想回到正确的路上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
acoustical shock
acute nonallergic urticaria
anti-knocking agent
Balzhausen
birthing balls
broadcast reception equipment
bull-flies
cash flow forecasts
cathodogram
cobblestone paving
common spraying
computerized navigation set
coneccaplypsis lucida
creepiness
Currency Legal Revaluation
destabilizing force
DNA duplex
doaghs
double-roller wave generator
drum type vulcanizer
effective storage space
estratriene
euctratite
expectations-augmented phillips curve
fibre optic distribution frame
fibronephorscope
final settlement day
fleshy nevus
for practical purpose
for reasons of
fused transistor
G (acceleration of gravity)
gentiana zollingeri fawe
get all dolled up
glycerol phosphoric acid
harmonic absorbing filter
heel joint of switch
high low
hull efficiency
in close order
inlist
instability in the economic system
instrument pledge
intersystem communication
inverted bandwidth
ionizable solids
it's a question of
jane jacobss
jerking motion
Karhula
Kiaman interval
knock fuzzy control
micro electromechanical systems
micro-computer
mint drops
multistage blowers
nail polish
narrow-narrow gate
not someone's scene
oral implantologist
organ lofts
pangenesis theory
panpiping
patrol altitude
pays for
peak capacity
pedcal
plain sawing
plastic-laminate
Pontederiaceae
preparators
profits tax assessor
Pruth
pseudocercospora platycaryae
pseudoversicolor
pump, vacuum
pyloric appendages
quin-
quitement
radiation measurement calibration
Rayleigh resolution limit
razatriptan
refetch instruction
remote level control
rhesus monkey
Rockford Files
sanitary installation
scattering analogue
secondary consumer
setariae fructus germinatus
shrinkage in boiling water
spirogyras
spontaneous fault rupture
sports-business
sprezzaturas
Tala, R.
thiamine chloride
transverse sensitivity ratio
unofficial rate of exchange
unremarkable
vitrinids