时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


英语课

Rod was a manager at House Depot 1. He worked about 50 hours a week. He loved his job, although the extra hours cut into the time he could spend with his three little girls. One morning he was supposed to go home at 7 a.m. Instead, he stayed on to help out for three more hours. He was just about to leave at 10 a.m. when he heard something.


At one of the checkout 2 counters, he saw a man dressed in white painter’s coveralls pointing a gun at the female checker. He had on a yellow cap, a white plastic painter’s mask, and white gloves.


Rod hurried over. Times in Los Angeles had changed. All managers now received training on how to respond to armed robberies and hostage-taking. Rod was nervous, but he knew what he was supposed to do. He approached the gunman.


“Sir, please don’t point that gun. We will give you all the money you—”


The gunman didn’t even wait for Rod to finish his sentence. He shot Rod in the stomach. The checker screamed. The gunman ran out to a white van and hopped 3 in. The van sped off.


Rod didn't even make it to surgery. The killing 4 made all the TV news shows. House Depot offered a $100,000 reward.


 



n.仓库,储藏处;公共汽车站;火车站
  • The depot is only a few blocks from here.公共汽车站离这儿只有几个街区。
  • They leased the building as a depot.他们租用这栋大楼作仓库。
n.(超市等)收银台,付款处
  • Could you pay at the checkout.你能在结帐处付款吗。
  • A man was wheeling his shopping trolley to the checkout.一个男人正推着购物车向付款台走去。
跳上[下]( hop的过去式和过去分词 ); 单足蹦跳; 齐足(或双足)跳行; 摘葎草花
  • He hopped onto a car and wanted to drive to town. 他跳上汽车想开向市区。
  • He hopped into a car and drove to town. 他跳进汽车,向市区开去。
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
学英语单词
Alphapro-dine
androgen insensitivity syndrome
Angelica pseudoselinum
anomalous communication
arousing
at a gallop
axle center
be of a calm temper
Better to wear out than rust out.
Brokdorf
canned rod
catastrophe theory
catch-as
catoctin mountain park
ceratostomella pilifera
circulating capital
Cirsium glabrifolium
CMIO
compensation for land improvements
component of aerodynamic moment
conflict-of-law
cowl-muscle
cracked condition
Dhuison
down-regulate
drawish
eco-defense
economic commission
elementary Keynesian model
encoach
exogenous pyrogen
filler point
flux-measuring channel
gas bombs
Girl Scouts
goods in stock
high temperature and pressure test
hollow cone
hosiea sinesnis hemsl.
igapoes
in-phase overlap
infrared-transparent material
inwrapping
isopurone
Kachinsky
Katayama taiwana
leasors
master trust
Membranisporites
mesocosm
mopidralazine
naso minor
non-linear interpolator
nonreligion
Nyssa javanica
osteoepiphyseal portion
paging supervisor
passive air defenses
Pediococcus tetras
pericardial branch
plumatus
pollution of oil ship
polus postetiot lentis
Praestat cautela quam medela.
prefix of codeword
preplanned combat air mission
queasy
quecreek
quijano
record of product test
rejectment
releeve
Reloading Charges
rescue service
response window
roller shearing machine
salpingioma
scheduled cost
sea exploration vessel
self-weighting design
sewer line
simple idea
spring (-loaded) pressure relief valve
St-Paul-et-Valmalle
steady-state oscillation
stenobregmate
stitch elongation
stress dyadic
stress of fluidity
Suphah
tetridin
Thumpversion
to desire
Towada
toxoplasmastasis
unibrows
user support
vagabondage
vietnamese potbellied pig
VRASP
went past