时间:2019-01-03 作者:英语课 分类:英汉幽默故事选读


英语课


  One stupid guy reads an ad about a vacation cruise 1 that costs only $ 100.After he signs up and pays, the travel agent hits him with a bat, knocks him unconscious 2 and throws him out the back door into the river. Soon another guy comes in, pays his fee 3 and gets the same treatment



  Fifteen minutes later, as the two are floating down the river together, the first man says, "I wonder if they're serving any food on this cruise."



  "I don' t know, the second guy replied. "They didn't last year."



Notes:



  (1) cruise n.乘船巡游;巡航



  (2) sign up签约



  (3) bet 4 n.棒



  (4) unconscious adj.没有知觉的;不省人事的



Exercises:



根据短文判断下列句子正(T)、(F):



  ① The first man heard about the cheap vacation cruise.



  ② The first man is knocked unconscious and carried unto a ship.



  ③ The second guy doesn't have to pay since he was on the cruise last year.



  ④ The second guy comes about 15 minutes later than the first man.



  ⑤ The second guy was even more foolish than the first.



74.假日巡航游



  一愚笨之人读到一则假日巡航游只须花100元的广告。在他签了字付了款后,旅游经纪人用棒猛击了他一下,把他打昏了过去,并把他从后门扔进了河里。不久又来了一个人,付了钱并得到了相同的待遇。



  十五分钟后,这两个人一起向河的下游漂去。第一个人说:“不知道他们这次巡航游是否提供食物。”



  “不知道,”第二个人说道,“去年是没有的。”



练习参考答案:



①F②F③F④T⑤T



v.巡航,航游,缓慢巡行;n.海上航游
  • They went on a cruise to Tenerife.他们乘船去特纳利夫岛。
  • She wants to cruise the canals of France in a barge.她想乘驳船游览法国的运河。
adj.失去知觉的,不省人事的;无意识的,不知不觉的
  • She was unconscious but her heart was still beating.她已经不省人事,但脉搏还在跳。
  • He was unconscious of his mistake.他没意识到自已的错误。
n.费(会费、学费等);酬金,小费;所有权;vt.付费给
  • Is this money enough for the tuition fee?这些钱交学费够吗?
  • The lawyer undertook the case without a fee.这律师免费承办那个案件。
v.打赌,以(与)...打赌;n.赌注,赌金;打赌
  • I bet you can't do this puzzle.我敢说,你解决不了这个难题。
  • I offered to bet with him.我提出与他打赌。
学英语单词
Acetyldigitoxoside
acrocalanus andersoni
address pointer
Adriatic Sea
aminoacyl
apply the screw to someone
automatic congestion level
Berezhany
blow sb's brains out
boiler survey
braffertons
C. J. C.
cargo air teriff
cawayan r.
chessboard design
clortermine
control segment
core turning lathe
cornucoquimba gibba
correctable coding error
Cowper
creativity mobilization technique
crystallographers
curl one's lip
cyrtolerinetin
daucosterine
demersal egg
depth regulating device
dueness
emblematist
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
Eurya chinensis
external (mold) lubricant
eyed texture
factorial notation
filers
fixed radix numeration system
fold amplitude
fuck it mountain
gadolinium gallium garnet
gordita
homeworlds
honey mushroom
intratrace
light duty
lineally
lothness
low-lifers
lymphopenic thymic dysplasia
machine for testing torsion
marseillais
Matanza, I.
mechanism of exchange
membership roster
membrane material
metathesiophobia
Mikadoism
millimeter wave guidance
Mq. L.
nickeled
noun in apposition
on the payroll
paranoialike
photoelectric efficiency
phrenzied
PIC (polymer-impregnated concrete)
pile up the rocks
pipe expanding machine
pitch error compensator
pragmaticists
pro-taiwan
program time analyzer
prompt time spectrum
pump block
quadriennials
radioactive ventilation system
Rangstrup
reconnection
relay winding
retouchings
Rostrinucula
rovimix
ry-pack technic
salmon berries
sell on the good news
shallow water blackout
shoemakings
snap shears
SOOGLOSSIDAE
spring feed
strontium -apatite
take ... chance
Tianding
torch-thistle
transformation base
unabsorbed expense
Unknown Warrior
washingmachine
waxinsect
well utilized
worse than all
zinc oxide-eugenol paste