时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   He was watching TV. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw something. It was a shadow. It seemed to be on the floor. He turned his head to get a better look. Whatever it was, it wasn't there anymore. Over the next few months, he saw the shadow several more times. It was always out of the corner of his eye. He visited an eye doctor. The doctor examined him. He said, "There's nothing wrong with your eyes. Maybe it's just your imagination." He figured the doctor was right. He went home. He was changing channels on his TV. He saw the shadow again. He turned his head quickly. It looked like something went under the bed. He looked under the bed. He realized that it hadn't been his imagination at all. The shadow was real. Standing 1 there motionless—was it looking at him?—was a big cockroach 2.



n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
n.蟑螂
  • A cockroach can live several weeks with its head off.蟑螂在头被切掉后仍能活好几个星期。
  • She screamed when she found a cockroach in her bed.她在床上找到一只蟑螂时大声尖叫。
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a sound bite
actual mechanism
advance-decline ratio
allocated quota
annoyed at
bin Laden
bittar
Bow Valley
Burgund guidance system
calc-alkaline series
California lady's slipper
caridina cantonensis
ccm(counter-counter measures)
charge CAP
classical method
cogitability
colour number
cooperative farming
crossed card
destabilisations
differential steering
distinguished symbol
doping method
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evengranular
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flight demands
frozen plant
fusicoccum persicae
gas blast arc-quenching
glacieravalanche
hard fibre
harpending
hattaway
high density PVC tangle film glassine
high-paying
high-sided
ihu (yhu)
in one's crystal ball
inclusivism
jintee
kenmores
Kobresia cercostachys
lap spot weld
library subroutine
liminares
limited-space-charge-accumulated oscillator
log-off message
lords temporal
M.D.F.
mammary swelling
margin trading
Marsdenia hainanensis
martites
methioturiate
Microsoft System Center
mineral kingdom
mispersuaded
monogenicity
morsitation
multicolour
n quadrant
nailability
neurosec-retory cell
not be born yesterday
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pashman
phosphatic calculus
pingwei powder
plicae medullaris
polistes (polistella) eboshinus
postcolumn
power broom
power-factor regulating relay
pre-course
radial plunger type oil motor
rattlestone
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recording algorithm
relocatable name
reservoir model
reversible inhibition
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rigging luff
sheelaghs
Slater-determinant wave function
sook
string polygon
sweeteria
taber
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transmissionists
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unsprained
variance of proportion
vorota
workings-out
worsle
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