时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:100个儿童英语小故事


英语课

 



016 The Feather Pen and the Inkstand 


There was an inkstand on the desk in a poet's room. Some strange sounds came out of the bottle. "How amazing! Anything can come out of that inkstand."


The inkstand was proud of herself when she heard that. "Yes, I am unbelievable." The inkstand told this to a feather pen and other writing materials. "Sometimes, even I am amazed 1 by what comes out of me. One drop of me is enough to fill half a piece of paper."


The inkstand had no idea what was inside of her. But she thought she had everything. "Don't you think about yourself at all? If you had a chance to think abort 2 who you really are, you would have found out that the only thing that you can do is drop ink."


The feather pen said that he was the one who wrote on the paper. The inkstand and the feather pen had an argument. "You idiot 3, the poet can write his poems only because of me." The feather pen said that the only thing the inkstand can do is give him ink. They kept arguing.


"Inkstand! You don't know anything. People cannot write without a pen." "Without me, you are just a shabby 4 little bird feather." The feather pen laughed at the inkstand.


At that moment, the poet came back from a concert. He opened the inkstand to write a poem. He started to write about the fantastic violin performance of that night. "The sound of the violin was just magnificent 5. But people think it is easy to play the violin."


The poet had a different opinion from those of other people. He wrote that the wonderful violin performance was because of the player's ability. Neither the inkstand nor the feather pen could recognize that their abilities were all precious 6 until then. They are a gift from God.




adj.吃惊的,惊奇的v.使大为吃惊,使惊奇( amaze的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Just the size of the place amazed her. 仅仅地方之大就使她十分惊奇。
  • I was amazed at her knowledge of French literature. 她的法国文学知识之丰富使我大为惊奇。
v.使流产,堕胎;中止;中止(工作、计划等)
  • The captain instructed them to abort the mission.上尉指示他们中止执行任务。
  • With this button the user can abort the audio sequence.用户可以用该按钮终止音频序列。
n.白痴,傻子,笨蛋
  • Only an idiot would make such a thoughtless remark.只有草包才会说出这样没有头脑的话来。
  • You are behaving like a perfect idiot.你表现得像个十足的白痴。
adj.衣衫褴褛的,不体面的,破旧的,吝啬的,卑鄙的
  • You look rather shabby in those clothes.你的衣着显得有点寒酸。
  • The old house has grown shabby with age.那座老房子因年代久远而变得破旧。
adj.壮丽的,宏伟的;华丽的;极好的
  • The museum that we visited is very magnificent.我们参观的博物馆是很宏伟的。
  • That's a magnificent task.这是一项宏伟的任务。
adj.宝贵的,珍贵的,过于精致的,珍爱的
  • Each life is precious.生命都是宝贵的。
  • Spring rain is as precious as oil.春雨贵如油。
学英语单词
acinose
adhesional traction
altelf
amiable compositor
angle of wedge
angle tower
apartheidesque
apparatus of resistance
backward stroke of the piston
bark-gnawing beetle
be smitten
below cost
bill payment at a certain time after date
breast adenomatosis
bregmatolambdoid arc
butenachlor
canbyite (hisingerite)
carlota
coleophyll
Colt Peacemaker
combined drill-cultivator
commercial and industrial representative
continuum percolation
correlations
crossed flexor reflex
cuirass cancer
damped matrix
data highway
decisecond
Dieskau
digital signature with appendix
double-probe
dual-record system
emancipatress
evetts
extensive propertys
gentlemanry
glitziness
goodtimes
gun chambers
Gurktaler Alpen
gyldendal
halogenated compounds
harfe
heavy duty face lathe
high-score
Hiltersried
hydropsyche breviculata
inertia flow
iniforis speciosa
intestine nerve fiber
intra band absorption
Krasnyy Bogatyr'
land artist
Ligamentum cuneocuboideum interosseum
lignin content
louis-bar's syndrome
lubricant oil
Lycians
maackia chindnsis takeda
merely quasiconvex
method of sample enlargement
mist blower
morbidize
Morgenthau
Morus rubra
multibuttoned
navaid (navigation aid)
neutron-induced radioactivity
norfolk islands
organomercurial herbicide
Park Forest
path-length error
phot-
phototopographers
price-markings
Ramus internus
reaction equilibrium
reprovers
rigorous
roman laws
samans
sand hook
sandaracopimaradiene
say grace
scaffold of tower
scum cock
sea surface wind
steering knuckle tie rod end pressure lubricator
structured index
tartanella
tartlike
the web of life
tooth tip leakage flux
trots
twin engine aircraft
type property table
Ullava
variable width rectangular pulse
vessel characteristics
yellow lead oxide
yo's