时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   "I’m so tall!" he bragged 1 to his classmates. "I'm so tall!" he bragged to his grandparents 2. "I'm so tall!" he bragged to his little sister. He was 3 only 12, but he was a head taller than most of his classmates. "You're going 4 to be so tall when you grow up," his dad said 5 proudly 6. "I'm going to be taller than a door!" he bragged to his dad. "Maybe you will be a professional 7 basketball player," his dad said proudly. "I'm going to be taller than the basketball net 8!" he bragged to his dad. Everyone was sure he was going to be very tall. But then something happened. He didn't grow taller in the seventh 9 grade. He didn't grow taller in the eighth 10 grade. He didn't grow taller in ANY grade! But his classmates grew taller and taller. When he graduated 11 from high school, his sister was taller than he was.



1 bragged
v.自夸,吹嘘( brag的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He bragged to his friends about the crime. 他向朋友炫耀他的罪行。
  • Mary bragged that she could run faster than Jack. 玛丽夸口说她比杰克跑得快。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 grandparents
n.祖父母;外祖父母
  • I often visit my grandparents.我常常去看望祖父母。
  • My grandparents live in shanghai.我的祖父母住在上海。
3 was
v.(is,am的过去式)是,在
  • He said he was right.他说他是正确的。
  • He was cold and hungry.他又冷又饿。
4 going
n.去,离去,地面(或道路)的状况,工作情况;(复数形式)goings: 行为;adj.进行中的,流行的,现存的
  • We're going to listen to a report this afternoon. 今天下午我们要去听报告。
  • He hates leaving the office and going on holiday.他不愿离开办公室去度假。
5 said
v.动词say的过去式、过去分词
  • He said to me that he could not come.他对我说他不能来。
  • He said to his mother that he would do it by himself.他对他的母亲说他将自己独立做那件事。
6 proudly
adv.自豪地,得意地;傲慢地
  • She proudly displayed her prize.她得意地展示所获的奖品。
  • She gazed proudly at the shiny buckles on her shoes.她骄傲地注视着鞋上闪亮的扣环。
7 professional
adj.专业的;职业的;n.专业人员;职业运动员
  • He is a professional tennis player.他是一名职业网球运动员。
  • I need a professional to sort out my finances.我需要专业人士为我管理财务。
8 net
n.网,网状物,罗网,净利,实价;adj.净余的,纯粹的;vt.用网捕,撒网;净赚
  • There is a net behind the goal in football. 足球的球门后面有一个网子。
  • The ball rolled into the net. 球滚进了网中。
9 seventh
n.七分之一;num./adj.第七
  • July is the seventh month of the year.7月是一年中的第七个月。
  • Let's start from the seventh stop. 让我们从第七站开始。
10 eighth
n.八分之一;num.第八
  • It is on the eighth page.它在第八页上。
  • August is the eighth month of the year.八月是一年中的第八个月。
11 graduated
a.(税)累进的;分等级的;刻度的;毕业的
  • He graduated cum laude. 他以优等成绩毕业。
  • He graduated with a GPA of 3.8. 他毕业时各科成绩的平均积分点为3.8。
学英语单词
accounting code
acetal
aerodesy
aeroplane flutter
alcis admissaria undularia
Alisovo
Alyxia taiwanensis
antisolar point
army aviation
attendance book
aurited
bagworm
band music
bank of oars
be under the apprehension
betongia gaimardi
Bir Jdīd
bone-forming cells
Bouguer anomaly
breshman
bridge across
built up to
by pass vavle
caliber compass
cartons
central meridian
channel slab
cheerled
Chrysosplenium pilosum
cocktail party phenomenon
colourimetric purity
cutaways
deferred research and development costs
diffusion theory
dinitrobenzenesulfonate
domifying
drain collecting system
eia-423
electroformed photomask
eva le galliennes
eventlessness
Flaubert
fleetfoot
gain the ballot
gerontophobe
goes wrong
grain specification
histidines
homogametic(wilson 1911)
Hume-Rothery phases
Hycobal
isopectic line
isotropic noise
lay on the colors too thickly
leading locomotive running kilometers
lipsy
little-eases
lob
long stem funnel
Malyy Ayev
micro-emulsions
microstaging
multiplanimat
myosote
nervi supraorbitalis
NNRTL
north canadian
off shade yarn
overhang impeller type
overturning limit angle
pentelateral
Pinot grape
plough-type machines
plutonyl
pneumatic method of sinking
pomicino
postal telegram
proton reaction
pseudo vector
receive-only type reperforator
relegate to the background
resin transfer molding (rtm)
rostrata
rows
Security of Maritime Claim
skin expansion
sosusts-s
spring contact arc welding
stone drawing tool
sunday clothess
surgical patient
tampers with
tapped circuit
tax-paid in the U.K.
terrestrial magnetism
thickening of capsula lentis
toe plate
Trichodina
tyar
Wardija Ridge
wave chopper
whole body autoradiography