时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:英语小达人


英语课

 Unit 21 Cuckoo 1 Husband


 
第21单元
 
Just after I got married, I was invited out for a night with the boys.
 
我才刚结婚,晚上就被一群朋友邀出去狂欢。
 
I told the Mrs. "I would be home by midnight...I promise!!"
 
我跟老婆说:“我半夜就会回来...我保证!!”
 
Of course, midnight came and went and I was still at the bar. I knew my wife will going to kill me if she found out.
 
当然啰,半夜早就过了,我人也还在酒吧里。我知道如果被老婆发现就死定了。
 
Just as I got in the door, the cuckoo clock started, and cuckooed 3 times. It was three a.m.
 
回到家门口时,布谷鸟刚好叫了三声, 已经凌晨三点了。
 
I realized my wife would probably wake up, so I cuckooed another 9 times.
 
我想老婆可能会醒来,于是学布谷鸟又多叫了九声。
 
I was really proud of myself to escape a possible conflict 2.
 
能够避开一场可能的干戈,我真替自己感到骄傲。
 
The next morning my bride asked me what time I got in and I told her "12 o'clock."
 
隔天早上老婆问我几点回来的,我告诉她“12点。”
 
She then told me that we needed a new cuckoo clock.
 
她就告诉我得买个新的布谷鸟钟了。
 
When I asked her why ahe said,"Well, last night it cuckooed three times, said 'Dame 3 it,' cuckooed another four times, passed gas, cuckooed another three times, cleared its throat, and cuckooed twice and giggled 4."
 
我问她为什么,她说:“因为啊,昨晚她叫了三声后,说了声‘该死’,再接着叫了四声;放了两个屁又叫了三声;然后清清喉咙又叫了两声,最后还咯咯地笑了起来。”

n.布谷鸟,杜鹃
  • The cuckoo lays its eggs in other birds'nests.杜鹃在别的鸟巢中产卵。
  • The cuckoo is a harbinger of spring.布谷鸟预告春天的来临。
n.冲突,矛盾,争执;vi.争执,撞斗,冲突,抵触
  • Your statement is in conflict with the rest of the evidence.你的陈述同其余证据有矛盾。
  • The conflict between them seems ceaseless.他们之间冲突似乎没个止息。
n.女士
  • The dame tell of her experience as a wife and mother.这位年长妇女讲了她作妻子和母亲的经验。
  • If you stick around,you'll have to marry that dame.如果再逗留多一会,你就要跟那个夫人结婚。
v.咯咯地笑( giggle的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The girls giggled at the joke. 女孩子们让这笑话逗得咯咯笑。
  • The children giggled hysterically. 孩子们歇斯底里地傻笑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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actuating lever
ageing hardening
air launched cruise missile
Amphicoelia
approximation by operator
Atherolipin
athletic communication psychology
back out
baggage-rooms
beef-witted
bimorphic male
bottle track
brachyeardia
catch ratline
central tegmental tract
climatic stability theory
communication modem
counterguerilla
couplets on pillar
cylindruria
derne
design-construction team
dirty Sanchezes
Edlitz
electrolytic gravimetry
electronic inductivity
enterocardiovirus
Every bean has its black
exit jewel
fast loading
fault tolerant routing algorithm
feature-based design
fenestellae
filicanes
fluid state
full circle girder erecting crane
future light cone
grieve
histrionic
i-wived
identification of immature infant
Insiza
integrated trajectory system
issue in
kilogal meter
left internal spermatic vein
lifoes
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low-voltage capacitor discharge
make your bread
Mankayan
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National Association of Precancel Collectors
navarea warning service
nickums
nonmythic
North Fareham
octonare
Olorani
Oseen force
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pinest
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polytropic expansion
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sell't
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slugginess
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subintrance
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terminal interchange
thyroid hormone evaluation
tongbok (dongbog)
trigyric
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verbal creation
Vilna Gaon
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wako
Wiesentheid
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yahe (papua new guinea)
yoy