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
a narrow scrape
AC current calibra-tor
advance and retreat
aegirinolite
airlift culture
albert diagonal
animal membrane
archaeological chemistry
back-blading
Baisalina
ball-tampering
bikable
bliue
Boguchwała
bovinaes
burst cloud band
Calatagan
catch someone out
caudectomy
clamant
contra-conscient
cost account
crosswind diffusion
deed of cession
devins
diggy
direction plane
dirtbike
disaccustom to
disc floret
double-thong
doubled up swinging booms
drag leveling course
drumcrees
dwell operation control unit
Elizabethanism
Emilia javanica
Erdkobalt
fixed pointer
fraenotomia
golden seals
Gossypium hirsutum
Haloragidaceae
hammer sth home
inbar
interference visibility
interflowed
ion-exchange reaction
knocks around
London Lighthouse
malloprenol
Margosatubig
mechanic's lien
month jumper spring
NASMV
neon diode counter
Nicholl's Town
nocturnal epilepsy
normally open (hydraulic)
nykanen
off the bone
ondimba
pan-Serbism
Pantoi
permanent hybrid
pissah
pointe claire
primordial meristem
rambert dance company
razza
resistance electro slag welding
rosekrans
Safed Koh
sapo durus
scotch laburnums
seances
semiconductor paint
sequential stochastic programming
seven-acres
silage motor chain saw
snap-on ammeter
software availability
spiced beef
stripe braid
successive intervals method
sygh
test of nonverbal intelligence
the lady of shalott
type-printed telegraphy
uncial
undertrial
unit separator
ureteral fissure
virgin tape
waffle arm
Waspishness
wicqueforts
work island
yoke tower single anchor leg mooring
zoneplate telescope
zoogeographical realms
zoom