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
abandoned woman
advertised bidding
analysist
antimesons
anything goes
arkshell
attack course
axodines
bevona
bijeljina
bismuth pentafluoride
bits per pixel
bowling pin
breechcloths
bunch of grapes
bundle adjustments
chattelinterest
chlorosulphonated polyethylene polyethylene sheath
closing of transfer book
Coales
collision enforcement
combined tunnel boring machine
compound insulation
control on settlement
control-flow chart
council estate
countersignatory
cycloisomerized
Deutschlandlied
digit-signal
discrete differential equation model
discrete system simulation language
doge
double-log model
drain flash tank
drieth
Duncansby Head
dysbulic
essential hematuria
fantigues
first order functional calculus
food substitute
generating voltage
geophysic
Gibaro
give someone the gaff
go through the roof
gorse
graphis desquamescens
high pressure generator
hoverball
in witness whereof
inauthenticity
insouciant
ionic crystal
James Clark Ross
kinetic labyrinth
kynd
legger
mailand
metabolic analogue
moreschi
motor vehicle use
NDSB
nephropyosis
neural cell adhesion molecule
no double taxation
ogival blade section
overall width of inner rings
parallel scalar processor
pay off expected
plant sterol
polycell approach
pre-assembly time
presentation of a claim
pseudozygopleurids
radial tyre
regional broadcast
requisition line number
retinaculum ligamenti arcuati
rotaxanes
salaries tax
Samnyong-ri
screw-type ventilator
seatposts
ship nationality
steam to-water preheater
stroy
subring
sudanophilic granule
the House of Lords
thin
thiocitrulline
toothglass
translocal learning process
uk campus
ulfa
valve-lifter screw
volumetric inspection
weft curling
wolframium
zou