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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abab
acerolas
American painted lady
anemic cardiopathy
area of surface
arthrophyton
assface
Auchinleck
backdropping
balmorhea
beach line
body slams
cambric tape
catch wheel
cavall
cedar mahogany
chippier
chl
coated fuel particle
complex fraction
coordinative construction
corresponding lines
coversands
distortion-free
dot matrix LED
drifts
duct of steno
dumb-dumb
dzhabrailov
early invasive carcinoma
elektrons
emotive meaning
extracapsular dendrons
fast coupling
flappergasts
free-convection boiling
go-back
hadrosauriform
Harmarville
holoscreen
Hoplophoridae
human evolutionism
infectosome
inspection man
integral variable
kelp bass
kite bill
Klimovichy
laserballs
lead antimoniate
leuco-erythroblastic anaemia
malevolence
maritime radionavigation service
Mastophorus
mechanic refrigerator
methylidyne-
modern radiochemistry
multi colour lasers
nahhs
national well - being
NP organic fertilizer
NQAA
odontogenesis
oil gauge
on the money
organic medicinal chemistry
orthotonos position
outrun
overflow gutter
paper-backeds
parachymosin
parlour palm
pegmatitic structure
Pemba Chan
pinpoint control
pithomyces chartarum
playsong
rami pharyngei
rise cam
root knol
say about
scalp-lock
seamount terrace
Sedgeford
sell at a sacrifice
semiconductor impurities
single-leaf
slitting pass
social smoking
sulphamidate
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to give someone the cold shoulder
transparent glass
truncus intermedius
ultrasonic defectoscope
under compulsion
Uniquin
usual picture area
w-type engine
West Middlesex
wizzoes
yarroshite