时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   Brett was sitting at Greeley Square Park near Macy's. A feather floated to the ground. He looked up. A curved metal bar connected a street pole to a traffic light. Two rods supported the bar. Pigeons stood almost shoulder to shoulder on the 20-foot-long bar and rods. The crowded conditions must have looked attractive. Other pigeons tried to land there. But they usually had to make a last-second U-turn. Streaks 1 of gray, hardened droppings covered more than half of the traffic light. Brett looked around. Three more traffic lights were nearby. They had the same bars and rods. But they didn't have any birds. Brett pointed 2 this out to his wife, sitting nearby. She said, "Who cares where pigeons stand?" Brett said, "Don't you see? First, we figure out what's keeping pigeons off those other bars and rods. Then, we'll use that info to keep pigeons off all our statues."



n.(与周围有所不同的)条纹( streak的名词复数 );(通常指不好的)特征(倾向);(不断经历成功或失败的)一段时期v.快速移动( streak的第三人称单数 );使布满条纹
  • streaks of grey in her hair 她头上的绺绺白发
  • Bacon has streaks of fat and streaks of lean. 咸肉中有几层肥的和几层瘦的。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
adj.尖的,直截了当的
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
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adiabatic condensation
alelad
applicancy
array of source
as boldas brass
Beatus Rhenanus
besting
Bijua
bipolar micro-instruction jump field
bunched strand
buteos
cammi
casing block
Chase City
Chomsky normal form theorem
code for heavy isotopes
commeator
concentrated couple
concrete roadbed
cone of ambiguity
conventional no-load direct voltage
cylinder reboring machine
defect of gastric wall
delay igniter
Dendrobium guangxiense
dineodymium
dins
drill ship
electrostatic screening
elemenic acid
equalization of telephone channel
estrofas
exploring tube
fiber scope
Gastrocentesis
gentlemanly education
glyewe
ground polygonometry
happy house
heavenly stem
heyyyy
hypnogenous
import component
in vivo footprinting
insect - proof packaging
integrated interferometric reflector
International Franchise Association
irresolvability
JSO
klensches
lie heavy on the stomach
life cycle management
maiasaurus
metal compounds
mezzanine floors
monochrome signal carrier
monsoon rain
msec
Musayjid
net sandstone
notgate
Olbernhau
persuasibility
phisical medium
piketon
Piława
Porteous
post edit
prime factor algorithm
progressive austenitizing
public address coupling
pump turbine
pun-off
ranium
relay system
reproductive behavio(u)r
Robson's line
scandalum magnatum
screw roller
semicentenary
shelf operation of hip joint
short-circuited brush
sidelobe weighting
sigmatron
single lift jacquard
sneakered
spinisternite
Stanislavski, Konstantin
starch-gel electrophoresis
steubenville
strahinich
sweloghe
system peak load
telekinetically
Teletex.
tensile crack
tube tunnel
tufo
Voluntary Import Control Program
Von Ebner's glands
wire gage
yttrium (y)