时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   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
Abengourou, Dép. d'
Achstetten
adequate remedy
agro-based industry
alternative quarantine anchorage
angle of action
anors
articular nerve
bag seraper
beam transformation matrix
bedding set
big-cone douglas fir
biolabel
blairmorite
blipping
breakfast meat
bricken
bring something to the touch
c-cap
cancel out something
charged point detector
Chongzuo
communications support
compact fluorescent light bulb
conjugate beam method
custom-home
debenture share
detailed report
directors' fee
down right
emergency generator engine fuel oil tank
endoptile
extra warp fabric
gas controller
grossvater tanz (germany)
guidling
haccp
hand digging
herves
heterocycles
holocarpy
hot water supply heat load
humite group
imperial Japanese morning glory
incombustible
Indian National Congress
ion plasma wave
Jubilate Sundays
kepners
left-hand dislocation
liorhizal
loading updown the temperature
monopolar force
MR-SA
msdp
musgrove
obtuse-angle
officios
oil pressure relay
optimum duration
over-optimisms
overall uniform sampling fraction
placing guidelines
power locating
program controlled drilling machine
psychological well - being
resource-seeking
resplendishure
retromod
rufulous
secratary
sfpuc
shield back,shield-back
shoot at right angles
sine wave oscillator
ski-mask
source documents
Soutine
Span-20
spark advance system
spearguns
split lens
steamie
stomacho laeso vertigo
Stomiatoidei
stromatous
supply source
three letter point
toburst
Toldt's membrane
trineuric
Tussenhausen
underborne
upway
Ust'-Shcherbedino
voice-enabled e-mail
wall pinning
weir
wesun
Wollastonia
wylfas