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
aberdyfis
air blast duster
begins
bettencourt
blazar
butyricin
by your favor
cable systems
Camerina
causal inference
centi-second
central-heatings
Cheongyang-gun
clamping cylinder
Coffeemate
cross pointing
Darwinizing
data logger and alarm monitoring systems
Dempster, Pt.
Deviation ratio.
double group
electric tooltip
employment exchange
endocardial cushion
endowest
environmental surveillance
febrile lysis
flamin'
genus berteroas
gibbosuss
grinding wheel dressing
hemithyroidectomies
homogeneous radiation thermometer
hypocycloidal tooth
in a fit of pique
increment representation
irosita (iridosmine)
j-terry
jeopardize,jeopardise
keystone-type piston ring
Khasi
Kunlun Mountains
lack of resolution
Ligguria
line of equal pressure
liomera rugata
look good
middle holocene transgression
mixed aphasia
monetary fluctuations
nesting environment
netherer
non-rectifying electrode
normal tone
notes in circulation
Omnya
on the person
organostibine
overload safeguard
overswarth
paces
Pearson Is.
pennyland
porthouse
potential transformer
professional dancer
Ramachandra
resistance sea
resubmiting
reticulitermes flanipess
Ridg-AC
RIEGELS
ruffin
samphans
shipholders
short sleeves
should of
sickness benefits
small-particle pollutions
spacecraft system
spacklers
spectrum pattern
Spercheios Potamos
stationary liquid polarity
stayed with
stentorphone
straitening
supratonsillar fossa
teannakis
telephone transmission technique
tholls
tonneau panel
Trube's correlation
tumeric (test) paper
ultraspectral
ummeliata insecticeps
un-hero
unitary gas thermal polymerization
water pearl ash glass
worked timber
written message
Zirkel, Mt.