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
ability-to-pay principle of taxation
aciie
african grays
Agapetes pyrolifolia
Ammit
anti-cultural
appetitious
apple sucker
basic water content
beachsalmon
Bhutia
biogeologists
blanking pedestal
blue-tongued skink
brouages
channelized
cherry-brandy
child helping agency
circumerration
cloudwashed
coniotoxicosis
contractings-out
convoluted seminiferous tub tubules
copper(ii) carbonate
device-level font resource
Deyeuxia petelotii
diazoparaffins
diplodia ricinella
discongruities
double-dog dare
Ena
enfranchised company
environment oxygen content
Ethamicort
ethyl sulfocyanide
exit stage left
exploratory bore-hole
Explore all avenues
extracting method
fast acting
feel sure about
ferrite-core loop antenna
gagan
generalized system of preference
glamour-puss
Golaya, Gora
guns blazing
hierarchical diffusion
homeotherapy
homoneura (homoneura) simplicissima
interrecord gap
Italian pottery
Meduno
milk strainer
more dead than alive
music-box
myelocone
New Taiton
no-where
O2V
overrent
paloheimo
Peter-penny
petromyzontids
phone camera
playfriends
power bus
put on style
radar echo box
random scan function
reading gun
reclon
releasing device
revenues are over expenditures
reversed phase coil
Rosa Seamount
Rufen-P4
saponaceous liquid wastes
Saprosan
see into a stone wall
sidesaddle
site designation memorandum
sodium polysulphide
sphygmometer
sylv
synsedimentary fault
temenggong
the briny
the man in the moon
Tien-pao
time-scale calibration method
tin dredging
Tozen
traffic peak flow
travesier
unlighted
urheen
USM (ultrasonic stress meter)
viridian
welding reheat cracking
Wollaston, Lake
yawing angle