时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   He had just bought a used floor lamp. He carried it downstairs to his apartment. He put it on the floor. It wobbled. He banged it down to fix the wobbling. It still wobbled. He lifted it. Big and small chunks 1 of sand-like filler lay on the floor. No filler remained in the base of the lamp. It couldn't stand upright. His wife said, "I bet you didn't look at the bottom of the lamp before you paid for it, did you? How could you forget to look at the bottom? Remember that mattress 2 you bought when you were single? You looked at the top side, but not the bottom. When you got home, you discovered the huge pee stain. We need to have a baby soon." He asked, "A baby? What's a baby got to do with a lamp?" She said, "A baby will teach you to check bottoms."



厚厚的一块( chunk的名词复数 ); (某物)相当大的数量或部分
  • a tin of pineapple chunks 一罐菠萝块
  • Those chunks of meat are rather large—could you chop them up a bIt'smaller? 这些肉块相当大,还能再切小一点吗?
n.床垫,床褥
  • The straw mattress needs to be aired.草垫子该晾一晾了。
  • The new mattress I bought sags in the middle.我买的新床垫中间陷了下去。
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acromiocoracoid ligament
anelloni
backpedalling
balaenoptera borealiss
base of a topological space
basipodial
blowing my mind
body core
burgomastership
center rail
chromalloy
coaxial film bolometer
colen
college scholarship service
common columbine
condenser tester
contract area
corklike
crowdsensing
De Laval zinc process
deposit dose
didicoi, didicoy
Diels-Alder reaction
Dihydroxpestrone
EFV
elastic moduli
electronic controlled acoustic shadow system
erection reinforcement
ethylene dibromide
Eyri
Fellow of Chartered Accountants
file through
fluid sphere gyro
fluidized coating
Fork and Knife
frangulin a
full lips
Full Ratchet
Garth hill bed
get an edge over
gig-goers
gwydir
heat sensitivity
high fiving
IF (instruction fetch)
insufficient disclosure
insulating fibreboard
isamoltan
jinbuhuan Plaster
jumbo fiber
kamalas
ktu
latin quarters
leading screw lathe
leavenless
LOTTT
lutament
Maromokotro
maximum propulsive efficiency
micro-array
mid-eighties
mitrione
mountain-bikings
Myanma
naturer
navigation tunnel
non-linear Schrodinger equation
nonmalformed
nuclear neutron
nucleolus (bowman 1840)
obstruent
orobanchamine
palaeographer
pannaria leucophaea
passenger transport income
piecewise linear system
pilote
plataeas
postmerger
provid
pupusas
rentier states
roller end face
sacrit
saluenense
Shanahan
site preliminary works
snacot-fish
snap hammer
starting moment
state of registration of the ship
state-makings
stretton
sub-aggregate
submit competitive materials
time frames
tray culture
ultimate shearing strenngth
valvular endocarditis
with forked tongue
write - in candidate
zorils