时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

  Toyota was in the national news. It was recalling a million cars. It wanted to check all their brakes. Jack 1 was driving his new Toyota. He dialed 911. "Help! My brakes don't work!" he said. He told the dispatcher where he was. The dispatcher called the highway patrol. A highway patrolman pulled in front of Jack's car. He slowed down until Jack's front bumper 2 touched his rear bumper. He carefully braked. Both cars slowly stopped. Jack got out of his car. He hugged the patrolman. A TV news helicopter was filming everything. Jack was on the national TV news. "It was terrible," he said. "I almost died. Of course, I'm going to sue Toyota." Toyota examined Jack's car. It said nothing was wrong with the brakes. A newspaper reported that Jack was $700,000 in debt. He had missed his last two car payments. "Something's fishy 3 here," said the newspaper reporter.



1 jack
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
2 bumper
n.(汽车上的)保险杠;adj.特大的,丰盛的
  • The painting represents the scene of a bumper harvest.这幅画描绘了丰收的景象。
  • This year we have a bumper harvest in grain.今年我们谷物丰收。
3 fishy
adj. 值得怀疑的
  • It all sounds very fishy to me.所有这些在我听起来都很可疑。
  • There was definitely something fishy going on.肯定当时有可疑的事情在进行中。
学英语单词
agricultural threshold temperature
angelifying
arch pillar
atell
baking board
benzquinamide
blood color flesh
call for someone
Campagnatico
car barns
cerebellitis
chinese motif
chord of the eleventh
citizenised
coal dryer
compositional analysis
concave quadratic programming problem
concrete seborrhea
cow-tongue ferns
crank sth up
cymo-botryoid
davisonite (apatite)
deamer
derbies
diarization
digital video disc-read only memory
dioxazine
drawing-number
explements
federated database
fip
Ford, Gerald R(udolph Jr.)
formating
genus Pastinaca
goodmen
granules application
graphitizer
hacksaw
hammerfish
hematohyaloid degeneration
hesitude
horizon cover
hydraulic offset excavator
identification of Chinese materia medica
interfluent, interfluous
interspatial
isothermal conjugate system of curves
ispahan rug
K-effect
Khormūj, Kūh-e
kiloyards
Latin squares
LCD projector
Levantisco
LSB (least significant bit)
lufeng series
machine twist
marial rocks
mealiness
mediumclouds
metal thermodynamics
no small matter
notwithstand
oil and alkali dosing machine
optical parametric oscillators
ottars
outboard ventilation exhaust valve
pascoite
periodental membranes
ph(a)eophytin
pleural endothelioma
polymer drilling fluid
power roll forming
radioactive logging
ramar
renitation
resin impregnated paper-faced plywood
ridottos
sagittal movement
secondary air injection system
signed magnitude
sludge volume index
sportsworlds
spring and autumn annals
squiggliest
steplengths
stored procedure
sublocalization
submarine furmarole
sulforhodanate
Sānkra
tempesting
Tinée
to have a cow
toleranced taper
tractor dozer
travoys
Ubitrons
unpopularising
water treatment chemical
yarmalke