时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   Lester was walking along East 65th Street. A store window's fancy lettering caught his eye. It said, "Smallbone of Devizes." Underneath 1 that, it said, "Hand-made English Cabinetry." He understood "cabinetry." But "Smallbone of Devizes"? What in the world was that? He went inside the store. Moments later, a man walked down from upstairs. Lester said, "Hi. I'm just curious. Could you tell me what Smallbone of Devizes means?" The man smiled and said, "Smallbone is the surname of Charlie, the founder 2. Devizes is the name of a small town in England." Lester said, "Ohh. That explains it. I guess you hear this question all the time." The man said, "You know, you're the first person who's ever asked." Lester said, "Really? I've always had a knack 3 for asking questions that others don't." The man smiled and said, "No, not really. I was joshing. I hear that question every other day."



adj.在...下面,在...底下;adv.在下面
  • Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
  • She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣,里面套着一条连衣裙。
n.创始者,缔造者
  • He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
  • According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说,罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。
n.诀窍,做事情的灵巧的,便利的方法
  • He has a knack of teaching arithmetic.他教算术有诀窍。
  • Making omelettes isn't difficult,but there's a knack to it.做煎蛋饼并不难,但有窍门。
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'Uyūn
a rod in pickle for someone
abedi
amisulpride
anal segment
argiustoll
ASCN
bacnes
Baronnies
be unable to see the wood forest for the trees
Benneckenstein
better-hung
brassica campestris chinensis komatsuna
bullifrom scale
casmaria erinaceus
celsius' thermometric scale
ceramic fuel elements
color formation in gasoline
common shares
communication subnetwork
contan
conveying mechanism
cordless phone
cow patty
crony capitalism
cyclotus
dementia pr(a)ecox
demi-wolves
Dibrova
discharging of brake
dispossess proceedings
el endanane
electrocardiometry
EOF, eof
Export-Import Bank
fail-safe control
fan dancer
Fessenden oscillator
flip up
Flixonase
floral-print
flyboys
FM radio set
gabri
gage block (block gage)
geographic subspecies
germanium-doped silica core multimode fiber
grain tears
guide levee
hare's fur spot
hi-fi record player
ill-treated
international multilateral loans
Ipomoea alba
jet beck
Laragne-Monteglin
largetonnage
loose seam
magnetic powder indication
mechanical placebo
meizoseismal
meteoriticist
mixtilineal
multioperation processor
myrrh trees
new scientist
Note-row
odontoid ligament
overgilded
Palaeozoic group
passive-aggressive
Plassen
pneumatic rabbit hole
Polish accumulator technique
pressure gas
proof of existence
r.wallace
reperformances
rhaphe palati
Sankt Georgen im Schwarzwald
saucer dome
shade bar
small cap stock
Sothiac
Sotuta
split ticket
springlock
squeeziest
stable air
starting program unit
surface accuracy
swabbing anesthesia
test point scattering
theory of dominants
theory of regression analysis
thlaspis
ticks me off
Uebermensch
vagal triangle
wag-halter
write-in campaign