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
Aber, Loch
active galactic nuclei
after leech
alternans systole
an important step in varietal improvement
annoregni
apparent particle size
auricularis anterior
body stock
borrowing rate
brackishwater fishes
card punch reproduce check unit
castiglione della stiviere
centrifugal regulator
chained segment buffer
cleave to sth
cobblestone street
contact scanning method
coppelius
damp-heat in the urinary bladder
Debardeur
deheats
disuprazole
duty time
Edmundo Ros
embraceor
enduing
family butcher
fan-liker
Faserkiesel
ferrisia virgata
foam(ed) plastic
fully impervious clothing
galactosylcerebrosidosis
genetic engineering in plant science
genus baphias
get on trust
governmentless
hecto-teslas
hellawell
hollyhocks
hyperplatymeric
incommunication
intake working
jamjars
janvier
kaga
library searching
linear multivariable control system
localized stress concentration
lonchidite
lycogala exiguum
malignant goiter
Mannesmann piercer
Marguerite Radclyffe Hall
megamarkets
moisture in air-dried sample
murrina de caderas
Norcantharidinum
oidium cephalanthi
overdeliver
papally
paradoxical akinesia
particulate sulfide
perimeter path
phagokinase
power shift transmission
power-absorption device
pressure and velocity stage turbine
primary pulp stream
progressive form
reglucosylate
releasable shank
research man
rubschisantherin
rummy
sandquist
sendre
sensillar esterase
ski-doos
sooty chalcocite (sooty ore)
specie exporting point
stereogram
stifel
storage-type heater
sturtevant
synatan
Tecomaji, I.
thaw compression
thrombocytoses
total serialism
transformings
tunnel cell
ught
Uraria
Ust-Maya
vinko
voltampere reactive
vredenburgh
wak
wenckeback's block
year-end balance sheet