时间:2019-01-16 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


英语课

Simon, a college grad, always pointed 1 out the errors in his brother Brevyn's emails. "When are you going to stop confusing 'its' with 'it's'?" he often asked. Brevyn, a high school grad, said that nobody ever noticed anyway.


Brevyn knew that Simon was “book smart,” but he didn't think Simon was very “street smart.” Years ago, Simon had bought stereo 2 speakers from a street vendor 3. When he arrived home, he called Brevyn over to help him set up the speakers. Simon was excited because he had gotten the speakers at half price. The brand new speaker boxes said Panasonic, Model No. A-682ST, Made in Japan, etc.


But Simon was disappointed and angry when he discovered that the boxes contained only old magazines. Brevyn was amused. “Did you get a receipt 4?” Brevyn asked. “Did you ask the guy about his return policy? Did he tell you where his 'store' is going to be tomorrow?”


Brevyn visited Simon to show him the new tires he had just put on his Honda Accord 5. While they were talking in Simon's living room, Simon showed Brevyn an air pump he had recently purchased. “If your new tires ever go low, you can pump them up super-fast with this. It pumps air into the tire on the downstroke and the upstroke.”


Brevyn said, “You must be kidding. I’ve never heard of a pump that pumps air on the upstroke.” Brevyn tried out the pump. “There’s no air coming out of here on the upstroke,” he told Simon.


“Of course there is. Read the label on the pump.”


Brevyn read the label. “Ha! Listen to this: ‘High volume air flow on both up and down strokes 6.’ The air ‘flows,’ all right, but it flows in on the upstroke, not out. The label writer tricked you, Mr. English Major. What have you got to say for yourself?”


"Let’s go outside," Simon said. "Maybe I can find a small nail in one of your new tires."


 



adj.尖的,直截了当的
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
adj.有立体视觉的,立体声的;n.固定形象,立体声
  • She had the stereo on at full blast.她把立体声音响开到了最大音量。
  • This program is being broadcast in stereo.这个节目正用立体声播放。
n.卖主;小贩
  • She looked at the vendor who cheated her the other day with distaste.她厌恶地望着那个前几天曾经欺骗过她的小贩。
  • He must inform the vendor immediately.他必须立即通知卖方。
n.收据,收条;收到,接到
  • We are in receipt of your letter of the 10th.我们收到了您十日的来函。
  • I asked for a receipt.我要一张收据。
vt.给予(欢迎、称颂等) vi./n.符合,一致
  • Most people are in accord with their desire for peace.在渴望和平这一点上,大多数人都是一致的。
  • The hearts of our people accord with those of yours.我们两国人民心心相印。
中风; a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.; (游泳或划船的)划( stroke的名词复数 ); 中风; (打、击等的)一下; (成功的)举动
  • Apply the paint thickly in even strokes. 涂颜料要厚,笔画要匀。
  • To improve your tennis strokes you try using a different grip. 为了提高你网球的击球法,你试试用另一种握拍方法。
学英语单词
alwan
antihypoxic
apasionado
automatic data-logging equipment
baimonidine
base station transceiver
Bence-Jones'protein
Beta vulgaris L. var. rosea Moq.
binary compatible
blood-to-blood
bocksputite (boksputit)
boiling and cooling process
brainery
bright-drawn bar
BTG (battery timing group)
Capaccio
Carmena
cascade laser
category of machine
Cathartes aura
circumferential joint
combinatorial immersion
commercial film testing
concatamer
cone stop
Cotabato City
creop
Croton L.
crystallographic shear
CS(chondrosarcoma)
dante gabriel rossettis
decicoulomb
diglucoside
dysgeminoma
eicosatrienoyl
eight-bit character
electrotrephine
elliptic dome
endothianine
endozoochores
Equipment Interchange Act
extrinsic attenuation
eyasmuskets
eyewitnesser
femme fen
fibwell
freezedried
geovax
green plant bug
guideline for design
halbreich
Hayes pegboard test
hilly land allotted for private use
Hugh Mungus
hydroplastic forming
Hydroxy-Mercuricresol
illuminated effect
jarbas
jhana
Kudangan
leg negative pressure
Mach-number controller
Marinesco
merchant fleet
migratory stain
myco-diesel
normal hottest month
Pairi R.
per capita income of rural residents
petrologist
pinch pots
plastic wastes
Polymox
portwines
prattlement
primary parameter
protopopes
recovery time
rerefief
reversioners
roksa
rosette leaf
second natures
settle one's affairs
shift inboard
sintering process
skeezer
spark signal
stagnation theory
stand-by capacity
steam-turbine lubricating system
strychnine rash
substracts
succinprotocetraric acid
Tamsalu
toutatis
unedic
unmobbed
unwithstandable
V. D. A.
Valuation-area
wave energy density