时间:2019-01-07 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


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A man and a woman died in an apparent murder-suicide last night in Altadena. The man was 74-year-old Dominic Vittorio. The woman was his 70-year-old wife, Victoria. The couple had been married for 50 years. In fact, their 50th anniversary occurred just a month ago, according to their next-door neighbor, Mrs. Allen. The couple was childless and had no close friends. Mr. Vittorio was a retired 1 carpenter who had emphysema and was blind in one eye because of a cataract 2. His wife was a diabetic who had already had one foot amputated because of complications from the disease. Her eyesight was almost completely gone.


“They were such a nice couple,” said Mrs. Allen. “I’ve lived next to them for the last 20 years or so. I’m widowed, and Dom always used to help me with things like changing light bulbs and fixing appliances. They had no kids, but they were always friendly to the neighborhood kids. Every Halloween they handed out tons of candy and fresh fruit. But about eight years ago Vicky came down with diabetes 3, and things just haven’t been the same for her or Dom. They used to be so friendly and full of life, and then they just seemed to get quieter and quieter.


“She used to come over to my place once or twice a week, and we would talk about all kinds of things and have the nicest time. But that happened less and less as she got sicker. So I would go over to her house about once a week and we would talk. But the conversations steadily 4 got shorter, and she seemed to lose interest in listening and in talking. She didn’t say it, but you could tell she was in a lot of pain.”


Mrs. Allen said she hadn’t even talked to either of the Vittorios in almost a year. They never came out. Even food was delivered to them by a local agency. She said she heard two gunshots last night—“It scared me half to death!” She immediately called the police. “Such a sad ending for such nice people,” she said. “Together in sickness, but alone in the world.”


 



adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
  • The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
n.大瀑布,奔流,洪水,白内障
  • He is an elderly gentleman who had had a cataract operation.他是一位曾经动过白内障手术的老人。
  • The way is blocked by the tall cataract.高悬的大瀑布挡住了去路。
n.糖尿病
  • In case of diabetes, physicians advise against the use of sugar.对于糖尿病患者,医生告诫他们不要吃糖。
  • Diabetes is caused by a fault in the insulin production of the body.糖尿病是由体內胰岛素分泌失调引起的。
adv.稳定地;不变地;持续地
  • The scope of man's use of natural resources will steadily grow.人类利用自然资源的广度将日益扩大。
  • Our educational reform was steadily led onto the correct path.我们的教学改革慢慢上轨道了。
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adamant metal
adultier
advertising departments
after-school program
alkaline glaze
Alsterbro
american society of medical technology
annointing
armature air gap
Aschheim-Zondek reaction
avenue of infection
barberry families
bayrumtree
boiler storage
brenson
cathartid
Cauto, R.
choreutis ophiosema
closed cycle cryogenic refrigerator
Coachella
color of the trichomes
combined steam and gas turbine (cosag) machinery
critical-load
cyclical graded bedding
dagobert
dahm
deed-box
direct drive electric tool
disrupted seam
et alia
excision of osteochondroma
Existing Home Sales
first-order bench mark
freighthopping
full to
furfural resin adhesive
fusser
gait analysis system
heir by devise
hemichorea
hepatic cyst
hexosephosphoricesters
infra red (ir)
JDL,JDL
knuckle-bone
kprofilograph
kyphorachitic pelvis
letter transfer
lighter-aboard-ship
lottia tenuisculpta
lyricist
marry into money
merrigan
microtropis triflora merr. et freem.
mind boggler
nanophanerophyte
nasal tip profile
naval beach group
negatived
Nicholson, Jack
number of repetitions
of great eminence
oh my fuck
one generation household
Parima, R.
pellizzari
professional golves
punctura
push type slab kiln
putting together
pyramid (of) selling
pyridine disulfonic acid
rastello
Rathmullan
reverting value
Richardson extrapolation
semisimple associative algebra
service port
sewer-pipe
spectromicroscopical
steam drive
Stilwell Road
subgeniculate
subsurface stacking chart
sucked in
suckerfishes
sunninghill
surface manoeuvring
tactile meniscus
term appointment
Tioor, Pulau
triturating
tut work
ultra-rapid high pressure gauge
underwater kit
unpronouncable
uranium isopropoxide
weather lurch
window screens
wolveboon
wriggled
wristers