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
5-hydroxyauratin
aberrant hepatic artery
acicularity
alcala del rio
Allingham's ulcer
Apresodex
architectural study
aromatic halide
at-risk neighborhood
avisandum
avoidance relationship
benefit corporation
break someone's spirits
building block theory
cafeteria package
capacity fall-off
carrier detect
central pack
collecting electrode vibrator
columnae lateralis
conducting band
crude still
despairer
diversificate
drainboards
Egbunda
emergency exit(door)
esophageal cancer
exponential convergence
fault state range
field hockey player
filling stations
fishery administration ship
flashing knob
floating oil production platform
formyl folic acid
free disk space
gemminess
girder for model attachment
grading products of nature
gripping zone
Gynorest
hand shovel
heavy weight goods
heavy-duty contact
Heparegene
honorables
imposthumed
inconcoction
Kate Greenaway
Kraepelin, Emil
laryngomalacia
lead acid cell
liquid saving
liquid-dielectric capacitor
Lithionnephelin
lowcross
macrofungi
macrophagy
Mahometism
mair-
malicious witness
mcglashen
mean concentration
methods of soil tillage
monosyphilid
most probable error
music loaded circuit
national science counci
Neo-Cytamen
neurocardiac
octet stream
once-seedy
overconsumptions
pair of scales
pantomography
phototypesetting
phymatorrhysin
pml-n
pneumothorax in langerhans' cell histiocytosis
portable storage
premixed elements
qualimetric
raducanu
Regulations on Classification of Seagoing Vessels
river-snail
rych
safety self-destruction system
savonneries
single-end tension device
skysail-yarder
subsidiary overflow table
swassing
the Chartered Institute of Bankers
toshiro
tremayne
triphyllous
tuscaloosas
underdrains
unticked
Wallgau
wursts