时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:新东方CET6阅读


英语课

One day a young man was writing a letter to his have a face to say that girl friend who lived just a few miles away in a nearby town. He was telling her how much he loved her and how wonderful he thought she was. The more he wrote the more poetic 1 he became. Finally, he said that in order to be with her he would suffer the greatest difficulties 2, he would face the greatest dangers that anyone could imagine. In fact, to spend only one minute with her, he would swim across the widest river, he would enter the deepest forest, and he would fight against the fiercest 3 animals with his bare hands.



He finished the letter, signed his name, and then suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to mention something quite important. So, in a postscript 4 below his name, he added 5:

"By the way, I'll be over to see you on Wednesday night, if it doesn't rain."



1 poetic
adj.富有诗意的,有诗人气质的,善于抒情的
  • His poetic idiom is stamped with expressions describing group feeling and thought.他的诗中的措辞往往带有描写群体感情和思想的印记。
  • His poetic novels have gone through three different historical stages.他的诗情小说创作经历了三个不同的历史阶段。
2 difficulties
n.困难( difficulty的名词复数 );难度;难事;麻烦
  • I am acutely aware of the difficulties we face. 我十分清楚我们面临的困难。
  • the difficulties of English syntax 英语句法的难点
3 fiercest
adj.(尤指人或动物)凶猛的( fierce的最高级 );凶狠的;(尤指动作或情感) 强烈的;酷烈的
  • The sun was at its fiercest and beads of sweat kept rolling down his face. 那时太阳正毒,晒得他汗珠直往下滚。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The leopard seal is one of the Antarctic fiercest marine predators. 豹海豹是北极最凶猛的海洋捕食者之一。 来自互联网
4 postscript
n.附言,又及;(正文后的)补充说明
  • There was the usual romantic postscript at the end of his letter.他的信末又是一贯的浪漫附言。
  • She mentioned in a postscript to her letter that the parcel had arrived.她在信末附笔中说包裹已寄到。
5 added
adj.更多的,附加的,额外的
  • They have added a new scene at the beginning.在开头他们又增加了一场戏。
  • The pop music added to our enjoyment of the film.片中的流行音乐使我们对这部电影更加喜爱。
学英语单词
-sounding
a little way
acid-digestion plagioclase
adenylyltransferases
altars
alveolus of teeth
amber acid
anchimeric assistance
auditory-only
bear no responsibility for
Bravais, Auguste
capital stock certificate
carcinoma of skin
center homology
check out system
cinara orienralis
common sole
comprador's capital
CP parity
cut-off gear
diffluence
diplantidian
discoloured water
doops
ecliptic stream
enation
engine-room logbook
enterpleaded
epidermolysis bullosa
fasciculated fibroma
fattu maschii, patrole femine
feat of arms
fence cell
flashing expansion
fox evil
freedom of conscience
freshwater cordgrass
functional authority
glycosylations
golden-boy
Gyrocheilos microtrichus
heat radiometer
heimatmuseum
hinged fork
Holmes self-igniting signal light
hydrodynamic power transmission
incipient tendency
incomplete heart block
inner sanctum
jib headed topsail
kernellish
key-data
Khurayt
lifetime warranty
list of tools
Litsea lancifolia
live on the square
machine dependency
machine of normal series
magnetic memory system
minimum cut-out
modulo-2 adder
Narva-Jõesuu
NCR paper
neurosecretory
oxy-calcium
picture width control
pierages
pilot deviation
Platte Center
power actuated setting device
pumpable concrete
race-circle
railbike
RAPPI
Remote Installation Services
saxaphone
secondary vertical system
severable contracts
sevika
side shore
SMAO
spur-gear drive
stored record interface
stowaway
straw brede
striking down
strube
styrene-butadiene-styrene
supply chambers
the first prize
theory of moduli
tin-nickel coating
tip cone
Ugarit
unbriefed
uniform terrace
unsatisfactory
vainly
visual operation console
waste disposal on earth
wide bandpass filter