时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


英语课

The biggest news in the whole world occurred two weeks ago when Paris Hilton was sentenced to 23 days in a Los Angeles jail. The heiress to the Hilton hotel fortune, who was a favorite of the paparazzi, had been cited for driving on a suspended license 1, among other things.


When the judge decided 2 that she must go to jail, people everywhere voiced their approval or disapproval 3. The news was on the radio, TV, and the Internet. Why her situation was such worldwide news mystified almost everyone. After all, her only known value to society thus far had been her ability to party with one boyfriend after another, one week after another. As many said, she was famous for being famous—nothing more.


When she finally went to jail, there must have been 100 photographers taking pictures of her. At first, the jail officials put her in a private cell, but her claustrophobia caused her to have panic attacks. They released her the next day. The following day, however, the judge ordered her back to jail to finish her sentence.


The sheriff said she was treated like all the other prisoners. She ate baloney sandwiches and other nutritious 4 food, just like the others. When she finally was released from jail, at 12:01 a.m. on a Tuesday night, dozens of photographers again congregated 5 around her to snap the “perfect” photo. She spent the first day relaxing—and recovering—at home in her parents’ mansion 6.


Then she went on the Larry King radio show and talked about her experience. She hadn’t liked being in jail, she said, but it had turned her life around. She had found God, and now she was going to do all she could to help needy 7 people improve their lives.


 



n.执照,许可证,特许;v.许可,特许
  • The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
  • The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
n.反对,不赞成
  • The teacher made an outward show of disapproval.老师表面上表示不同意。
  • They shouted their disapproval.他们喊叫表示反对。
adj.有营养的,营养价值高的
  • Fresh vegetables are very nutritious.新鲜蔬菜富于营养。
  • Hummingbirds have discovered that nectar and pollen are very nutritious.蜂鸟发现花蜜和花粉是很有营养的。
(使)集合,聚集( congregate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The crowds congregated in the town square to hear the mayor speak. 人群聚集到市镇广场上来听市长讲话。
  • People quickly congregated round the speaker. 人们迅速围拢在演说者的周围。
n.大厦,大楼;宅第
  • The old mansion was built in 1850.这座古宅建于1850年。
  • The mansion has extensive grounds.这大厦四周的庭园广阔。
adj.贫穷的,贫困的,生活艰苦的
  • Although he was poor,he was quite generous to his needy friends.他虽穷,但对贫苦的朋友很慷慨。
  • They awarded scholarships to needy students.他们给贫苦学生颁发奖学金。
学英语单词
achievement value
artificial light filter
autocastration
ballast raking equipment
bowess
bowker-saur
bradyrhythmia
Bremnes
Brighouse
Camellia tenii
carpentering
chucking automatic lath
color photomultiplier
Compleat Angler
composition plane
conversion catalyst
cost-pull inflations
daily settlement system
dangshen
deutron
Dickinson, Emily
dimethyladenine
dissimulates
electric function generator
energetic start-up
Eocrinoidea
four-cycle diesel
fragum carinatum
gangrenous pulpitis
Gardentox
gets in touch
globulin
Goderville
gonorrhoeal
Gough Island
ground-plan
heat budget
heavy snow?
herringbone matching
indoctrination centre
irrational system of units
k-face (kinked face)
kausch
kybernatics
level measurement
long-jawed
Lysionotus denticulosus
make the ears tingle
masua culture medium
measure of area
militarizes
modified Newtonian equation
moments of force
move to packing
naphthalic acids
narrow pennant
neopentamerus octcellus
Nevado, Sa.del
nodal diaphragm
North Tidworth
not-fun
odd-come-shorts
order-point control system
overall width of outer rings
paraskevopoulos
perflenapent
performance-artist
pericardial pseudocirrhosis of the liver
picture quality
piss-ants
popular democratic front for the liberation of palestines
practicioner
protection and indemnity risks
pseudopodal
Pulfrich refractometer
QADS (quality assurance data system)
rare-air
readen
render and set
renocystogram
Richard Rodgers
run-in table
salt-induced
Sanatogen
show honour to sb
shvab-zeldovich theory
simesthesia
social planning model
sociospaces
spam filtering
structural component
surripe
thread control block
tradpubbing
transmission line regulation
Trigonella cachemiriana
tripler frequency
turn your attention to
welded flange
wigner's phase space distribution function
write down the value of doubtful debt
yarely