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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a case
acoustic(al) imaging
acyl-CoA
advancement in life
air wave
air-bottles
antimony sodium thioglycollamide
arbitrary ballistic correction
autoclave monitoring
automated unit test
balanced erection
banded archerfish
be'er
benzac
Blankensee
blast-furnace elevator
Brandisia hancei
bubble position
capital gain on discount bond investment
car ventilation
compsodrillia nakamurai
cuticulum of Flechsig
dalus
Dammes
deep-voiced
degree of complex
direct dividing head
dry-fuel engine
ecims
Envendos
fire-breathings
fly about
frequency array
gotten up
gramolas
griqua
hang detection
hash heads
hixploitation
hydrophosphinations
Ignat'yevka
interest-bearing check account
international money broker
iron(ii) selenate
Jiayin
jibb
lorin
M-GAG
malalign
materialiser
metanauplius stage
methylesculin
millbourns
model-regulator identity
nan ko tzu
navigational charts
negative muon
Nias, Pulau
non-commutative group
nuclear-energies
numericlature
occupational adjustment
operator-assisted call
order erysiphaless
pachyrhynchus tobafolius
permanent press resin
pierroes
pink salons
polar convergence
prism transit
prospective application
Puerto Rico Maritime Shipping Authority
Qinling
radio-frequency gain control
red lead powder
red-eyed dilution
reeks
remote-controlled mine
removing the poisonous quality of any substance
ring cushion
roll gauge
rubber-bel-lows mechanical seal
Salavan
sea arrow
shoeder
short changes
skybike
socio(-)psychiatric
sophisticated weapon
sordidly
specific cause
spiral lead-in and spiral throw-out
status symbol
surface-to-mass ratio
Suzhou style pattern
tempatation
the shades of evening
titanium ester
trial voyage
unbeach
unenmeshed
vision impaired