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。




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a set of
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amygdalose
Aragon, Louis
archaeomagnetism (dating)
Archer, William
arthropleurid
asset utilization
average annual yield
BDHT (blow-down heat transfer)
blacksmith hammer
boom bap
bostrycapulus gravispinosus
by-running
Cetids
chicken snake
circumflection
coastguards
coil of rope
continuous interrogation
coves de vinroma (les coves de vinroma)
Crotalaria chinensis
Deuteronomistic
dimarco
dithioctamide
dreifuss
Dura.
effective divisor
euler methods
euphyllophyte
evel angle
false twist yarn
fictitia
filling-stations
film resistor
first derivative
flat gain capacitor
Gallo, C.
gavelkind
genus cabombas
genus hugueninias
genus Mesua
Goolgowi
haplochromis
hard mouthed
hedgehoggy
hise
homogeneous body
hooky
Hypolytrum nemorum
integer syntax
inui
invisible export and import
Kaiserling's method
ketoestrone
Kharagun
kurcit (wellsite)
labial angles
light column
lin
loipon
Melittangium
microlichen
mucocutaneous hemorrhage
multivariate analysis of variance (manova)
musculus infracarinalis medius
n'own
nitroberon
occupied state
papain test
parochialization
per package limitation of liability
phthalocyanine pigments
post stack migration
preflight
principle of parallel influences
radio spectroheliogram
repremiation
Reyuvenation
Rufiri
sanmicheli
second normal-stress difference
self-energized brake
Sezessionstil
sieve-tray tower
sluggy
smoke-rocket
sold on
standard modular system
stereoregularities
stimulus pattern
summer cohosh
syntagmatarchy
tape swap
ticket stock book
tv receiving antenna
uncharitable
underfiring fuel
vapor-to-liquid ratio
vendange
white cable
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