时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   He was dog-tired. He plopped onto the worn sofa. His sister said, "You look beat. Did you just run a marathon?" He said, "I wish. I can run a marathon in less than four hours. I just finished my shift 1. It was eight and a half hours. No lunch, no breaks." She said, "That's inhuman 2! That's inhumane! That's illegal! They can't make you work for over eight hours straight without even one break! You need to call a lawyer right now." He said, "I'm too tired to call a lawyer. Besides, who can afford one? It was super-busy. My coworker was out sick. I was the only one making sandwiches all day. My manager thanked me. He said to eat anything I wanted after I clocked out. So I did. I think I ate one of everything we sell." She said, "You're not tired from working. You're tired from eating!"



n.交换,变化,移动,接班者;vt.更替,移转,变声;vi.改变,定责,更衣
  • Lend me a hand to shift this box,will you?来帮一下忙,把这箱子搬开,好吗?
  • A sudden shift in the wind warned of the coming storm.风向的突然改变预示暴风雨来临。
adj.残忍的,不人道的,无人性的
  • We must unite the workers in fighting against inhuman conditions.我们必须使工人们团结起来反对那些难以忍受的工作条件。
  • It was inhuman to refuse him permission to see his wife.不容许他去看自己的妻子是太不近人情了。
学英语单词
active sites
Aimorés, Sa.dos
ampere wires
ancient prescription
Anglifies
antipendium
approach radar
ausable forks
azimuthal chart
Bacterium lepisepticum
beam-line
blind time
brass bolt with round head
buying and selling channels
cage molecule
centropus bengalensis takatsukasai
charland
circling maneuver
clothes-bag
CNHD
combine engine drive gear
come apart
common centre of curvature
company-sponsored
connecting resistance for potential
Copenhagen blue
creme de menthe
creutzfeldt-jakob
digital record mark
dipyridinium hexachloroplutonate
disuniters
earmu
ellipsoid joint
ethyl vanillate
external screw cutting tool
Felton's serum
foot-binding
front tank
graphite bridge
guvacoline
hived-off
hullaballooing
hypercarb process
internal balance(mather 1953)
Iverson brackets
Karagiozis
kerosene blast burner
kievitone
korin
Lamb shift
late genes
magnetoelectric tachometric transducer
major portion
microtips
natrium stibogluconicum
neurotransmitter metabolism
next-executable statement
nitrophobe
normal service rating
optional blank
osteitis fibrosa generalisata
p-type doping
Pabetangan
pinnaspis aspidistrae (signoret)
potter wasps
pretoir
proprietary medicines
proton linear accelerator
protozoologists
pudend
quarere
retention requirement
Rousseauan
salvage lien
samming machine
sampling control
schlicht function
seal with semicircular annular groove
semiconductor device doping
senistor
Senthion
sextant altitude
shenzhen
sleeve sampler
stain spot
Stamp Duty Ordinance
storm kite
subsequent effects of fertilizers
surface effect ship (ses)
table stakes
through-stitch
torchiest
total aborbing surface
two-stage rocket
Umayo, L.
unaccessible
untempestuous
veterinary gynecology
Vil'gort
weyman
wraxall
xerosis infantilis