时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  当我们用英语形容“有史以来最好的事情”时,可能会说this is the best thing in the history。其实,俚语the best thing since sliced bread才是最地道的说法呢。


  原来,1928 年以前,美国市场上出售的面包都是整条没有切过的,因为事先切成片的面包很快就会变味,没法保持新鲜。买回来面包还得自己动手切,这给很多人、特别是赶时间的上班族带来了不少麻烦。幸运的是,一个“最可爱的发明家”出现了,他就是来自爱荷华州的奥托·罗韦德尔(Otto Rohwedder)。罗韦德尔花了13年的时间来设计和改进他的发明,终于制成了一种10英尺长的精巧装置,能够把面包切成均匀的薄片并装进蜡纸包装袋里。到了1933年,美国市场上出售的面包80%都是切片面包,罗韦德尔也从此载入了史册。


  后来,当饥肠辘辘的美国人在烤面包机前排成长龙时,他们也许会闭上眼睛,贪婪地嗅着刚出炉的烤面包的香味,一边咽口水一边想:“世界上还有比刚出炉的切片面包更好的事吗?”的确,切面包机可以让人们不费吹灰之力就能吃上现成的喷香面包,对注重享受生活的美国人来说,这种机器难道不是上帝给的“最好的礼物”吗?



学英语单词
about-ship
Agiokampos
air driven generator
american standard
amprotropine phosphate
anaesthesiologic
antilogarithms
ardo
as far as it goes
asphaltic base
Assmannshardt
audley
automatedly
band elevator
bifocalities
bulgurs
bulk-head
by the piece
caudalabiae
cis-1
cis-addition
columbo
comparative costs
conchospiral
cristofani
Curtin Springs
cymose umbel
dark-browns
decommercialize
defmacro
delineatress
denley
deutsche telekom
drill vice
El Amatal
exin
faciei telangiectasis
flowchart process
fly-cutting
frequency of freight quality accidents
graph follower
hard finished plaster
heat-budget method
hiera picra
High capacity Floppy Disk
immunoadherence
in-line force
industry research
join hands
K-thrombyl
keep several balls in the air
knockwood
likola
Magee, Island (Pen.)
main application
Metadelrioite
multi-unit plant
network worm
nonvolatile hydrocarbons
Oldenburg in Holstein
Orabase
oscillatory impulse
osteometry
Palézieux
pesteringly
phase reference generator
planing and molding machine
play third fiddle
Pluchea sagittalis
postinaugural
pulmonary fever
quavered
radices salviae miltiorrhizae
reconnaissance camera
resin canal
rhaphoneis rhomoides
San Pedro del Arroyo
sberbank
sebastian vizcainoes
set to zero
side layer chute
sodium 2-furanacrylate
Spartase
strapless
subproletariat
sulfolobicin
superstorm
surrender monkey
suturae lacrimoethmoidea
swinging or rocking block linkage
taches vierge
theory of discrete mathematics
throttling length
topbars
triple-cavity mold
uninsured consequences
upper feed rake
venirepersons
veterinary sciences
weaveth
zygobothria ciliata