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
actinodrome
affective action
allochetia
arrival and departure track terminal
be on tenterhooks
be-little
bo jio
brittle-coating method
charge-balance converter
chevaline
click method
combined gear train
compact edema
concave glass
consolidation of provisions
corour
Coulans
Crinodendron
cut sth up
dance attendance on
Deep R.
departiculating
depository right
digital oceangraphic data acquisition system
drum parity
duration
Euschongastia lorius
fabric data
family lauraceaes
Fertinic
focal plane camera
four-quadrant
freehandedness
global music
gravity type foundation
great spotted woodpecker
guerriers
Hermon Mount
hex reconversion process
illustration board
indonesia-politics
input side
instructed
interim reparation
Kungurian Stage
lakefield
limit of fire
luminescent waveform
make the appointment
markov process
microwave dark room
mobility scale
multiple-arc method
negative saving
neosinocythere chenwui
nineteen hundreds
nonlinear programming in relation to linear programming
nuclear energies
one-d inversion
over-simplify
panicum sanguinala l.
passive infrared system
peemergencies
phenyl-diiodide
platinum blonde
postjunctional
Primula kweichouensis
purotenax
quartile measure of skewness
quasi negotiable instrument
reform measures
regenerome
reservists
retail value
rete mirabilis
reversing facility
risest
sarons
schamz
silicic acid
snugging
sociometric device
sodium fluoaluminate
specific reaction rate constant
station-service
stream controller problem
sulfoxism
table of cubes of numbers
tadpole (pl. taeniae) (taenia )
tension feeler
tertiary healthcare
thalassotherapy
tidal gate
TiLite
to go aboard
triumph over
trust fee
tuck
turnbench
wankette
wounded pathology
zhibao mini-pills