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。
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acidimetres
adjacent area to shaft hale
aeronautical mobile-satellite
Alutor
amide synthase
anchor short stay
antideportation
augurs' dance (rome)
Avrora
awards ceremony
blethering
blunt square file
bone conduction
booking request
brachydiagonal
bugtrap
bulldoggers
Bures St Mary
capacitance-coupled flip-flop
circumgenital
closing up shop
co relation
composite black
conducter
corporate manslaughter
cottonoids
defective nutrition
defogging equipment
delayed decision coding (ddc)
Dhulikhel
downstroying
dysgraphic
electron waves
esafe
eye music
fastness to acids
fire depression
genus Pomaderris
glaze up
Golden-Balls
hatah
hillsales
IKRK
imprisonment for life
knife gin saw file
language-use
lily-fingered
lingoe
Litke, Zaliv
market bird
microdetection
mineral potential
minimum time path
momentary speed
neostriatal
order Sauropterygia
own shares
Pachypodium
pool tool accessories
Potentilla eriocarpa
premunitive
proctoptosis
project proposal
pseudogleyzation
quasisimple
range-transmitting selsyn
rates percentage charge
reverse function
rotogravure paper
run control totals
rutabaga plant
sapphire
schamel
several-fold
shift-out character
shoe string
shortia rotundifolia subcordata
signal pretreatment
slender type
spearmint spirit
straight line stability
subdichotomous
subpolar air
summation formula of poisson
super-duperest
synoptic system
Taishanese
tape-grass
tax haven activities
the causes
tit-warbler
tomonori
transformer ratio
tresperimus
tribasic
unified propulsion system
Unipolarina
urban heating system
us -based
VOIPSA
wineglassful
Wykehamic