365个英语简短小故事- 39. Another Jealous Girlfriend
时间：2018-12-31 作者：英语课 分类：365个英语简短小故事
Scott was sound asleep when the phone rang.
"Are you awake?" Jolene shouted. Scott mumbled 1 something. How could he still be asleep, she asked. It was almost noon. He told her that he hadn't gone to sleep until 6 a.m. Jolene told him to get up, and come pick her up. They had to go to the store to return the birthday gift he had given her.
It was a tangerine 2 plant. The leaves were curling 3 up. It was going to die, she said. "Curling leaves means 4 the plant is going to die?" Scott asked. Of course, she told him.
"Look, honey," he asked, "let me go back to sleep for one hour, okay? Then I'll come pick you up." Jolene wondered why he needed one hour. Was he expecting a phone call from his ex-girlfriend? No, he patiently tried to explain, he just wanted to get another hour of sleep.
But he could not sleep anymore. Once Jolene mentioned anything about Amy, he'd better get over there quickly. Scott broke up with Amy five years ago. Now they were just friends. But, Amy still loved him. That wasn't a problem for Scott, until Jolene found out about it. If Amy still loved Scott, Jolene figured that they just might get back together.
She can recognize a dying 5 plant but not a dead love affair, Scott grumbled 6 as he rolled out of bed.
- He mumbled something to me which I did not quite catch. 他对我叽咕了几句话，可我没太听清楚。
- George mumbled incoherently to himself. 乔治语无伦次地喃喃自语。
- Hand me of a the ripest tangerine please.请递给我一个最熟的橘子。
- These tangerine are transported here by air from Fuzhou.这些福橘是刚刚从福州空运过来的。
- That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
- We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
- He was put in charge of the group by the dying leader.他被临终的领导人任命为集团负责人。
- She was shown into a small room,where there was a dying man.她被领进了一间小屋子，那里有一个垂死的人。