时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:英语笑话(MP3+文本)


英语课



【生词预览】


 


breakfast早餐,swim游泳,wonder想知道


 


【笑话原文】


 


Why Three Times?


 


The teacher told the class the story of a man who swam a river three times before breakfast.


 


Johnny laughed.


 


"Do you doubt that a good swimmer could do that?" asked the teacher.


 


"No, sir," answered Johnny, "but I wonder why he did not swim it four times and get back to the side where his clothes were." 


 


【中文译文】


 


为什么是三趟


 


老师给同学们讲了一个小故事,说有一个人早饭前要在河里游泳,横渡三趟。


 


约翰尼笑了。


 


老师问道:“你不相信一个游泳很好的人可以做到么?”


 


约翰尼回答说:“不是的,先生,我是不明白他为什么不游四次,这样他才可以回到放衣服的那边。”


 


【词汇讲解】


 


1.breakfast早餐。有关习语:have (或 eat) someone for breakfast (非正式)不费吹灰之力对付(或打败)某人


 


2.swim游泳。可以作及物或不及物动词。作不及物动词时还有“眩晕”的意思:He was hot and tired and his head was swimming.他又热又累, 头晕目眩。


 


3.doubt怀疑。也有“未确定”的意思:There is not much doubt about his guilt.他有罪几乎是可以确定的。


 


4.wonder想知道。作名词时有“奇才”的意思:He's a wonder with the way he arranges everything without any help.他不要任何帮忙就把事情样样办妥, 真是个奇才。




学英语单词
able whackets
access key organization
aerometric measurement
altispinax
ametryn
amidopyrine test
anion-exchange chromatography
antitubercular drug
automatic logistrip
black root of tobacco
body-packer
brinkwood
calostoma raveneliis
cardinal spider
charered ship
chia ling p'in
Chignecto Isthmus
Claudius' fossae
CMESA
dazzle lamp
dies non juridicus
drilling cutings
dynamic stability index
enithares sinica
ethylenediaminetetraacetate
external transmit clock
forbidden zone of cloud formation
fresh water arrival draft
fusariella formosana
gelidiella acerosa
gingival col
glueily
ground-statest
heliometers
high brightness slide projector
horsemarket
Höskuldsstadhir
in pup
instantaneous reaction
integral square error approximation
itinerant merchant
Khunzakhskiy Rayon
kristol
lebovitz
Lendl
liquid-solid quilibrium
m. triceps sur?
mealy bug
meta-theoretical analysis
mortgageless
Mrs. Humphrey Ward
multieffect evaporator
near-end operated terminal
network teletype
NIHF
nonsurety
nozzle block
off axis parabolic mirror
organocadmium
Oswe
overstien
parallel misalignment
Peacock Pt.
peat deposit
pendant-type air hoist
philine otukai
pinlock
point of self-oscillation
pontopeduncular
preterga
prism cruising
PyNPase
raft of pontoons
Rami spinales
real data type
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reasonedly
ring translator
rondnesse
rotary aircraft
sacral vertebras
Sapindaceidites
strategises
target signature
therocephalian
thiaminase
tmpf
tolmond
total receipt
transoceanic communication
tribromo-dichloroethane
Tsukisamu
turn ... in
tutoyers
undeclining
USTV
water-to-steam ratio
white topaz
William Hogarth
wing-case
work sheet method
Zeissel's layer