时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   The couple stood in line at Bellevue Hospital. They were on the fourth floor. They were first in line. Three workers sat behind the main desk. One of them, a slim woman, said, "Step down." Doug and Sandra looked at each other. Step down? There was no step. The floor was completely 1 flat. The only steps were in the stairwell beside the elevator. The woman repeated 2 herself. She looked right at them. They pointed 3 to themselves. She nodded 4. They stepped forward. "Did you say 'step down'?" Doug asked. She nodded. Sandra gave her a piece of paper. "There are no steps," Doug said. "You should say 'step forward.' No one understands 'step down.'" The woman wrote a phone number on the piece of paper. She said, "Call this number on Monday." She gave the paper back to Sandra. She looked at the people next in line. "Step down," she said.



1 completely
adv.完全地,十分地,全然
  • She never completely gave up hope.她从不完全放弃希望。
  • I feel completely in the dark on this question.这件事使我感到茫然。
2 repeated
adj.反复的,再三的,重复的;累;频仍
  • repeated absences from school 一再缺课
  • the prisoner's repeated denials of the charges against him 囚犯再三否认对他的指控
3 pointed
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。
4 nodded
v.点头( nod的过去式和过去分词 );打盹;打瞌睡;点头致意
  • He nodded absently, his attention absorbed by the screen. 他专心注视着屏幕,只是心不在焉地点了点头。
  • She nodded her head in agreement. 她点头表示同意。
学英语单词
ant cows
apsara
autodestructive fuse
bacilliferous
Basil the Great, Saint
basil thyme
beneath someone's dignity
boris
Broadheath
buoso
business survey
call in sick
catchment area of karst spring
cautionary note
changed diameter paraffin scraper
chaparral cock
clamping time
clenchers
coleoid
colorimetric radiation detector
communication media
compile directing sentence
continue on
cooked data
current wattless
deimmunizes
Derdeouni
Development zone craze
dish something out
DRQ
duct hyperplasia of mammary glands
elaterophore
elmbrook
Etrofol
ferro meridian
Feynmanium
focal length tolerance
four-half
fresnel defect
Gargano, Promontorio del
girdle
hardening in lead bath
Hordeum distichum L.
housewalls
Janthin
lactamine
lamination thickness
language information algebra system
left fundamental solution
lenbachhaus
levelling box
licensing committee
linear low density polyethylene (lldpe)
litle
MA
Malijai
Mary(Merv)
mean climate characteristics
metacetyl
Middle Carboniferous Series
nectopod
nickered
Onychocamptus
opaque ice
other backward classes
out-strive
overlay controller
Patea R.
pendejos
pep-ups
plot elements
poker machines
polebridge
portable dissolved oxygen meter
prosthetic replacement
pulmonary vein
quadrumane
renewal survey
round-hole mesh
schwartzs
scombrus tapeinocephalus
sea wind
shoptalks
side equation
sighting index
signalcurbing
slmb
space-consuming
stiltbird
studio music
superimposed interference
takeoff weight
tapered grizzly bar
thermocushion
thirty weight
tribrachidium
tubulatures
two in one TV transmission system
ultra-low frequency dualtrace oscilloscope
Valkas Rajons
vowers
vuchetich