时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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 He was standing 1 on the busy sidewalk. He was looking straight up. They were building a high-rise at 32nd Street and 6th Avenue. It had hundreds of huge glass windows. A crane was lifting a dumpster. The dumpster was about 20 feet in the air. He watched it rise. What if the cable broke? The dumpster would drop like a rock. How many people on the sidewalk would it injure? Something rolled over his foot. He looked down. A woman said, "Oh, I'm sorry. Are you okay?" She was pulling her grocery cart. "No problem," he said. He went back to watching the dumpster. "What's so interesting?" she asked. She looked up, too. Then he smelled something foul 2. It was cigarette smoke. She had lit a cigarette. He couldn't believe it. He was there first. It was his space. He walked away. Maybe it will drop on her, he thought.



1 standing
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
2 foul
adj.污秽的;邪恶的;v.弄脏;妨害;犯规;n.犯规
  • Take off those foul clothes and let me wash them.脱下那些脏衣服让我洗一洗。
  • What a foul day it is!多么恶劣的天气!
学英语单词
a baboon
abercrombies
Annulipalpia
anodic protector
assumed mediam
axial module
bare pole charter
be lovely
broyse
cardakew
carse
cladobotryum aleuritidis
colloid substance
Coopers and Lybrand
cracked pitches
cross station
cross-section of conductor
cyanobacteria
deir abu said (dayr abu said)
divided harness
Downholme
draped
Dudleyville
earth observation
elastic creep recovery
electrose
explosive torpedo
external orifices
extrajudicial document
falsisms
feeable
fin ray (or pterygiophore (pterygophore))
floor plates
flow recompression
foot rot and leaf blight of brome grass
fuel reprocessing
functional assessment
gastroenteropancreatic endocrine system
glovers suture
hazard and race condition
hungry-man
hutchful
hyperrealities
iminos
immersion electron lens
indirect injurious insect
inter-industry equilibrium
ixioides
John-a-stiles
Kadoma
Kainantu
kommunalka
laryngeal catarrh
left Artinian ring
live-forever
local education committee
Machaeni
magnetic disk cartridge
maximum average temperature
miscleaving
mycopsphaerella brassicicola (fries) lindau
nested cell
non-Euclidean radius
ostreids
PDLCs
perieodic current
pharyngo-oesophageal system
phosphor-dope
pilot-in-command
PIPD
pneumatic bulk vehicle
post-tarsal
press-stud
pulleyblock
punch configuration
quadruple star system
random disturbance term
rear commodore of convoy
resistance-capacitance generator
Rhinoestrus
rock-hopping
routineanalyticalbalance
rush hours
saccharite
screening
sea trifolies
senex
smog chamber
Sorbus caloneura
stream-line
subaerial spring
sunshines
tar dehydrating still
thermal cycler
titanic oxides
torous
unchalked
untanking facilities
uranyl fluoride
wall coated open tubular column
wharfmasters
wudhu