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
abstracted empiricism
aerospace veicles
airborne radar camera
albert, lake
alec
allouter
alpha-methyl-naphthalene
antidrinking
antimony bloom
any amount
bend double
bending roller
benfite
bisector
blaeberries
both production and marketing thrive
bushing bush
candy apples
chapelfell top
coarse grained clay
connecting rod jig
craftedness
custody of goods
cut terrace
delay, node
delusion of religion
diesel motor car
discounting principle
double-rotor impact breaker
ekstam
elastomerically
end of each fiscal year
experience at
ffsk (fast frequency-shift keying)
Fiske-SubbaRow method
flackers
fluminense
fractional lever
get a good look at
glasspapering
hamms
hantzschia amphioxys
heptyl formate
heuristic algorithm
horizontal classification
immune precipition
ion sensitive emulsion
kyoodle
length over keel blocks
load program and allocation
long dwell time radar
macrocavity
Makhdūmpur
maneuvering wheel
marine pollution incident
marketing rights
matsuyoes
muscles of perineum
myxopod
nasal septum
nightbird
nonreflective ink
nonventilated motor
normal market value
one piece crankshaft
ozil
parcening
perdy
person under a legal disability
polunin
portable computer
pseudocilium
rare-book stacks
reversible level tube
rissala
rolt
sangre
scope of entities
screenwriting
second townsend coefficient
Shamil'kala
short-term effect
shuffle sb to and fro
solid solutions
spherical wave illumination
super-monopoly
synchronous period
time-domain and frequency-domain
translation period
triatics
trigona submandibulare
tube tympanography
unprovisioned
upper punch
upper-flapped
uterus maswlinus
uv protection
ventilation problem
video enabled computer
wholesale agency
wounder
zainuddin