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
Acacia vietnamensis
accountant's method
aminolevulinic acid
ammonium gluconate
amorphous material
atmospheric sampling
Banach spaces
be on firm ground
brine-proof paint
chi-ack
childism
club-swinging
colour frame editing
constant-current modulation (heising modulation)
cornick
cyberdisinhibition
dab onto
deutzia amurensis (regel)airy-shaw
disaccommodation
dolerocypria tobawei
EBOP
electric fault
encoder group
Erlang loss formula
ex parte hearing
exemplar-based
external pelvimetry
external race
falsomesosella subalba
femoral hernia
fluid-coupling
Follett, Mary Parker
full automatic switching network
furesol
GaAsFET
general atrophy
gopaks
graphologically
grease-staineds
guided missile cruisers
halliwells
Inawashiro
increpate
intrenchment
Jävre
kravica
kymoscopes
li peng
lighter wharf
masculizes
matrixholder
megafukia gigas
meningovascular neurosyphilis
milfoil
Milton Bradley
modern norm
motry
mystery-cults
National Cybersecurity Center
net income to total assets ratio
neutral potassium bromide
non-existents
oil cellar wedge
OS Security
ovidweb
Panicum bisulcatum
parmelia subdivaricata
peplomers
pharyngorhinitis
plain vanilla
plumped
Primula glabra
prison gangs
processing technique
proportional spring
referential integrity constraints
Regret Theory
Retamar, L.del
rock technique
rolling transposition
Rose R.
scheduled frequency
shaker grab
shelter tube
six-coordinate site
small interlock pin
smoothshade
spotted guittarfish
Sticker's disease
stitch sb up
task-completion
Taxin(e)
time address code
tupou
two-stage cooler
unexpended
uremic hyperparathyroidism
vegetable plot
Vo Chi Cong
wedges method
with the least delay possible
x-ray image intensifier