时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   Craig's uncle had just retired 1 from a government job. He was planning to take a lot of ocean cruises. Craig said, "What a dream job that was. Just shuffle 2 paper for 30 years and then take ocean cruises. You can't beat that." Marie said, "Of course you can. Your uncle was born here. He speaks fluent English. He grew up knowing American culture. He had many advantages that immigrants to America don't have. Yet he shuffled 3 paper for 30 years. My boss came here from Vietnam with no money and no English. He had nothing but his recipe for hot sauce. Last year his company sold $60 million worth of his hot sauce. If your uncle had aimed for the stars, today he might own his own cruise company. But he didn't. He took the easy road. I think my boss is more of an American than your uncle is."



adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
  • The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
n.拖著脚走,洗纸牌;v.拖曳,慢吞吞地走
  • I wish you'd remember to shuffle before you deal.我希望在你发牌前记得洗牌。
  • Don't shuffle your feet along.别拖着脚步走。
v.洗(纸牌)( shuffle的过去式和过去分词 );拖着脚步走;粗心地做;摆脱尘世的烦恼
  • He shuffled across the room to the window. 他拖着脚走到房间那头的窗户跟前。
  • Simon shuffled awkwardly towards them. 西蒙笨拙地拖着脚朝他们走去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
a modicum of
accelerated test ratio
Airy hypothesis
Albumine
anchor prohibited mark
assembling stand
backward-wave power amplifier
basalt clay
batterfang
Bloch's reaction
Brasyle
Celebes Basin
centranthus ruber dc.
chechem
chukrasin
computer part program
condensate drain pan
conditional forecasting
copre
core refractoriness
counting threshold
cupric acetylide
data recording head
deficiencies of the elementary form of value
densok
doubtcasting
doubtfire
electraglides
equal replication
fall from sth
family Vitaceae
fcus
FFD (failed fuel detector)
first-aiders
fixed base period
gladewater
Griblyanka
gunite covering
habighorst
Hamstead beds
holographic photography
hot melt glue
Hyalomma
incise
inflammablefreight
intensification machinery for steel bar
internet content rating association
iterm of repair job
Katiti
l'universite
legerski
lugol solution
Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert
megaloblastic
Moorish Scientist
no-hunt call
nutrient diagnosis
off course signal
P. R.
Pacific Islander
pan vibrator
pareh
parlor grands
pecherz (pitchblende)
phenmerhylol
pistolese
polymerization promoter
port service
power equalization
power to weight ratio
projected-scale
proper plaintiff
proposed project
put the lug on
quadratic phase mismatch
radical catalyst
reading ages
recess
reinfection tuberculosis
relief workers
rheotropic brittleness
sanitary waste
screen savers
select address
selective release process
Senecio morrisonensis
snowmobilists
sodium salicylates
soundpeople
source linkage
squint quoin
stabilization fund
stopped diapason
sudden change report
sulcus chancre
tanning vat
tracitin
trainsets
Trombicula akamushi
trouble-free operation
underwater penetration
War blog