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
.fts
actuating signal
alismal
ambient ground motion
annealed copperwire
antideterminism
antifriction box
antigen-presenting
Approach to Mideast peace
arithmetical mean error
biological disturbance
book entry securities
bulls
chilled water unit
coated bulb
cockatoo farmers
common service verb
Commonwealth Fund
Cornhusker State
counter recession policy
deflecting system
defogging equipment
didukh
dominant height
double-lever mechanism
dragon tiles
driving box bearing
eel fry
ellwand
erecta
exotypes
expansion chuck
fenrirs
filiform spinneret
forays
Gbinti
genderfuckers
graminose
Guihaiothamnus
honeyflow
hydrated potash
Hydroromeite
jigsawing
jobba
Kingdom of Nepal
Lake Mcdonald
land ours
Laser cutting for SMT stensil
laserpitin
Latter Rain revival
lignin tar pitch
logical indicator
man-machine model(l)ing
Mboutou
Merritt I.
most famous of saddle horses
mouldboard plough
neurobehaviourally
Ninth circle of hell
nonvectorizable
Nueva Esparta, Estado
optimum alkalinity
outstanding person
Piedra, R.
plot thresher
plumbing unit
polyaminohygrostreptin
polycation
predication
quantitative morphology
relapsing secondary syphilis
reservation characteristic of heat-supply system
right fields
rough-foot
Rubensian
selfadapting
separate ash and slag handling system
shooting pole
Shqip
shunted
skewed to the right
sousliks
specific educational subsidy
speed and power characteristic
spinsterlike
spraying apparatus for ash pan
steel mesh reinforcement
subdefinition
superflare
tenth-value layer
themus (themus) purpuratus
theophilosophy
three dimensional fringes
Ulysses Grant
unidimensionalities
universal cultivator
vibratest
voluntary tax
washerless
wedge-shaped cut
yaa
zierliana ziervogelii