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。
学英语单词
activity attributes
Agrochao
Aitamannikko
allylcarbamide
anchor job
antevenient
at base
barri i.
bean windrower
big belly
botanick
break dancing, breakdancing
broadbeans
centipascal
chain-block
circular point on a surface
colbertan
Corynebacterium helvolum
crosstalk of colour subcarrier
daxpy
delivery viscosity
dengue fever
derivative apparatus
device input format block
DFC (disk file control)
dipped cord
electrolytic heating
freedom fine
full load capacity
full timer
furnace condition
gallie
germ nuclei
gland packer
grandis
haptenizing
Herba Inulae
hexacarboxylic acid
high-heel shoe
i-durked
ibragim
intervening obstruction
intra-abdominally
isopycnotic
join assembly
labradorescence
Lago Posadas
length of runoff
locomotive caboose crew system
Lower away!
maced
medium-size bearing
middst
moisture tons
monitoring dynamic process
monopole asynchronous motor
much of a size
navazio
nervalian
ninth-inning
non-occupant
octal (numeration) system
ogee'd
omphalectomy
one-child
Othello
overthe-top
particular conception of ideology
petroleum production economics
phoneticise
polyphase line-to-line voltage
postscandal
quota sampling
remained oil
respiratory arrhythmia
ring doffer
Risma
row-barge
sales war
scatter
SCDIC
schistosomiasis cutis
severely affected plot
shaft mucker
single infinity
skid friction
skyjacks
sock link
stereobates
Succinimonas
synovial sac
systematic policy
trash heaps
trompe-l'oeil
two-piece catsuit
unconditional maximum likelihood estimators
upward total radiation
wasting aways
water tight lamp
wide band gap semiconductor
within-group design
xenyhexenic acid