时间:2019-01-01 作者:英语课 分类:英语博客 A cup of English


英语课

 You can really feel that Summer is on its way. Everyone is coming out of the woodwork. People are actually walking on the streets. You don't often see that; it's usually empty sidewalks and everyone in cars. But now, there is plenty of reason to walk. The air just feels soooo good, and the sun is not yet too hot. As I was driving home the other day, I saw two very sporty men on bicycles. Now, there happen to be a lot of cyclists in this area. It's a cycling paradise actually, because of the nearby hills and trails. But, these men were different. You could tell that they weren't cycling for pleasure. They were policemen. And they were cycling up my road! I felt sorry for them actually; our road is very steep. By the time they got to the top, they would have been exhausted 1. They looked as if they were in really good shape, not the typical, overweight, doughnut eating policemen in patrol cars. If you love cycling, it would be an ideal job. You'd get paid for riding your bike all day. And I doubt that they have to deal with many hardened criminals. First of all, they wouldn't get very far if they had to chase anyone in a car. And secondly 2, in a hot, hilly town that doesn't have many people on the streets, who would they arrest anyway? Perhaps they are showing a friendlier, healthier type of policeman to the community. They would be handy in places where people gather, like baseball parks, and community events that are outside. I suppose they could even race through a mall on their bikes, or a huge store like Walmart. Now, that would be useful because a lot of shoplifting goes on in those kinds of places. Seeing policemen on bikes, certainly changes their general image, and though they look friendly, remember that they are armed and dangerous.


 
Grammar notes.
 
Related vocabulary: sporty, a ...... paradise, to deal with.
 
1. She looks fit and sporty; I bet she works out, or does some kind of competitive sport.
 
2. That shop is a chocolate lover's paradise; it is nothing but chocolate.
 
3. He had to deal with customer complaints all day, and then his car broke down on the way home, the poor man!
 

adj.极其疲惫的,精疲力尽的
  • It was a long haul home and we arrived exhausted.搬运回家的这段路程特别长,到家时我们已筋疲力尽。
  • Jenny was exhausted by the hustle of city life.珍妮被城市生活的忙乱弄得筋疲力尽。
adv.第二,其次
  • Secondly,use your own head and present your point of view.第二,动脑筋提出自己的见解。
  • Secondly it is necessary to define the applied load.其次,需要确定所作用的载荷。
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aborsement
acer pilosum maxim.
Adalate
adjustment cost
aesthetic appreciation of map
angle of back of tooth
appletalk - link access protocol
as reason was
aseptic package
automatic moving-target indicator
benchmarkers
biochemical reactor
biostrategy
blesome
blind tigers
Blue Angels
body pigment
brushmarks
cancel slow down and shutdown
ceridians
channel mode
climbing fibers
coal unloader
compressed air type sprayer
coronary suture (coronal suture)
currency policy
DC shunt generator
defaste
dentode
Distylium
double annular tuyere
effoliate
electric signal
escape death by a hairbreadth
fetchet
footes
fustiness
gemmer
give good returns
golongan
gotten out of repair
Guiscard
hair growth
Harkin's rule
hhok
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
hot hubbing
hyperdescent
hypochrome
hypopituitarisms
insulated static wire
inward-moving
Jindyworobak
Kuǔp
Mareb Shet'
marsellus
mental maladjustment
mireh
Molykote
multi-tube evaporator
multilist software
Namam-ni
nevadite
nomen oblitum
Nomersan
non-combustible materials
non-direction
organo chlorine insecticide
pathwayz
pre-emphasis circuit
QBP
rascalries
reclaim
red spiders
residual gas atom
rogin
rossetter
roughing down mill
ruffle someone's feathers
saltatoryreplication
Saxifraga saxatilis
scarin'
semi automatic seal
sick to death of
sod-off
soft-shoest
spiraperturate
SPL (sound pressure level)
sporocarps
steam supply valve
suche
superteachers
switch jumper
takamotoes
Terence Rattigan
tip-curved forceps
trailer type sprayer
Vogit loudspeaker
vulnerability assessment intrusion detector
wackyparse
win on points