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。
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-ological
abandoning ship
accountable warrant
anion conductor
Avogadro's law
bandleaders
bathroom singers
block device
blunthook
boofs
cap-case
caper cutting
carbonate formations
carpen
casting-out-nines check
checkerblooms
circumcentre of a triangle
complete n-point in plane
consumers' association
creatorships
cross-lightings
decade digital computer
dependent time lag
Digital Micromirror Device
disk-bursting test
dude ranches
elasticity of exchange rate
Equipose
ernst maches
fabric reinforced polymer composite
family Balaenidae
First Nations
five-pointed
floodlike
flux invariant
fouling point protection
granulated fertilizers
gruebelsucht
guard process
hedgehops
historiosophical
I transmit later
Indian robin
inland water drilling rig
intensified
joint snakes
leakage well
make himself known to
marine current
mechanical calculator
median nerve test
medical social worker
methyl acetylsalicylate
Modane
Monascus anke
nasal columella
nitro-naphthalene-disulfonic acid
northward
now-how
nutrient efficiency
padayatra
Pampas, R.
paperbacker
phenylhydrazine-p-sulfonic acid
photo-refractive recording material
photocathode sensitivity
photoelectronic amplification
pogonatum urnigerum(hedw)p.beauv.
potato medium
print out
prosthetic devices
psoriasis orbicularis
pubbing
randomized jitter
real-imaginary component instrument
regenerative material
right heart
rotesar
sandy marl
shifman
soft-land tractor
solid-state materials
speargunner
spectral line shape
spiritually
stardents
stercobilinogen
stiff-armeds
stroke thwart
superintends
T. A.
test ouchterlony
time-of-day function
titration apparatus
triangulation base
Turk's head
uniformly magnetized body
upsoaring
vehicle chassis
ventral fixation
worn guide pin
yarn variation