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
-plasia,-plasis
abode
acidum
added protection
airborne profile recording
alluvial ore deposit
analysis report
aohs
Aqsay
atomic bomb injury
betita
Boeing727
braddon
Bunut
chinese evergreens
cinchona ledgerianas
colophonic varnish
consonate
D.T.I.
dead-bang
dingy yellow horizon
discontinuous cost function
double-hose rigs
driving gear shaft
dual channel mode
equity issue
exopinacoderm
exorista japonica
expired appropriation
false lining
first ports of call
forebreasts
gas turbine operation
geared propeller
Gorebridge
hard-dock
humaneness
icots
in tune with
Iraki
isoalkanes
Janto
kerocele
kinematic chain
LEJ
longways (england)
Lyle-Curtman's tests
mallins
Mathurin B.
mesembria
metal-encased electric tool
mexamine
multifrequency signal
naidids
newitts
noctuary
nonserial
one-sided difference
Paleozoic Erathem
peised
placenta vera
posterior perforated area (or posterior perforated substance)
Prey Veng
procrustean rule
Psidium littorale
pull curves
pulse-width coding
Quercus marilandica
relay finder
repayment schedule
restitutios
roarin'
ruyt
schwinger reversed-phase coupler
scientific notation
serigrapher
set a bone
sharply defined
sigma-delta modulator
signal enhancement shallowlayer seismograph
single thinning shears
slews
solvent extraction rendering
sound-on-vision
Spiranthes
staff house
stratificational grammar
Streptococcus coryzae contagiosae
stridulously
surface view of epidermis
Taguelmit(Tāqilmīt)
thermal entropy
total mortality rate
tratt
tuberculosis of scrotum
tunicles
turf drain
unprostitute
vacant number
Wettaburg
whiste
wingless abutment