时间:2019-01-27 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


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Evelyn and Jasper’s new condo certainly was small—1,200 square feet. It was on the first floor of a three-story building. They had no garage for their two cars. In fact, they didn’t even have one designated 1 parking space. When Evelyn went grocery shopping, she often had to lug 2 the groceries 100 feet from her car to her condo—sometimes less if she was lucky enough to find a parking spot close to her condo.


Evelyn was on the phone with an old friend in New Mexico. “Now I really appreciate how convenient it was to park in my garage for 20 years and walk directly into the kitchen. Just think how much fun I have now when I’m caught with grocery bags in a rainstorm! And the neighbors. They all have their own friends—we’re outsiders. We go to the community pool regularly, but no one has stopped by to introduce themselves. Whatever happened to southern hospitality 3? And my sisters? They’re all working! What was the point of moving here if they work all week, and on the weekend they’re usually too tired to go out?


“New Mexico was so much better; I had my own house, yard, and garage. I had a small garden in the back yard. I had a couple of good friends, including you. Here, I still don’t have a job, even though I’ve been willing to take almost anything. Jasper is gone six or seven days a week trying to sell Cadillacs in the middle of farm country. He should be trying to sell tractors 4! He comes home so tired that he hardly ever goes fishing. He must be kicking himself for being so thoughtful 5 to me.” Her friend told Evelyn to stop being so negative. They'd only been in Georgia a year. Even their first couple of years in New Mexico were rough, she reminded Evelyn.


 



a.指定的,特指的
  • Smoking is allowed in designated areas.允许在指定区域内吸烟。
n.柄,突出部,螺帽;(英)耳朵;(俚)笨蛋;vt.拖,拉,用力拖动
  • Nobody wants to lug around huge suitcases full of clothes.谁都不想拖着个装满衣服的大箱子到处走。
  • Do I have to lug those suitcases all the way to the station?难道非要我把那些手提箱一直拉到车站去吗?
n.好客,殷勤;adj.(气候等)宜人,适宜
  • He welcomed you to enjoy his hospitality.他欢迎你去做客。
  • Thank you for your kind hospitality.谢谢你的盛情款待。
拖拉机( tractor的名词复数 ); 牵引机; (牵引式挂车的)牵引车; 拖车头
  • Ploughs are pulled by tractors, or in some countries by oxen. 犁由拖拉机牵引,在一些国家则用牛来拉。
  • Nowadays tractors are used even in remote mountainous regions. 现在连偏僻的山区也用上了拖拉机。
adj.思考的,沉思的,体贴的,关心的
  • She is thoughtful for her friends.她很体贴她的朋友们。
  • This is a thoughtful essay.这是一篇具有思想性的随笔。
学英语单词
Acanthocoras
addressed store
adjusting idler wheel
aftergrowth
avoidable fixed cost
bargained for
Bothrops jararaca
butyl stearate
caipira
carry-over point
Chondrobranchii
chromatogram homogeneity
closed network model
coccidioidosis
Colmor
compost bacteria
contact wear
crank shaft bearing
dearomatising
decology
deficiency of stomach yin
desmosome
dynacords
eigen-value
Ektyl
farm production control technique
flattenedregion
fleabites
gaillardcut
gelatin paper
goods of the contract description
great land
greisens
helical orbit beta-ray spectrometer
hevery
homileticss
ideographical
Igunga
intack
interfirm network
internal mammary vein
isopotentials
Ladoxaprine
leipzigs
limitededition
liquid application
long nozzle heel nailing machine
longmonts
made demands of
main schedule
mangunel
Maranta arundinacea L.
melanocratic rock
metalloaminopeptidase
military emergency regime
milk loaf
mock standard
mondull
nadb
nick us
nonfat dry milks
nonleprotic
numeri clausi
on full pay
optimal value function
overabundant yin
parliamentary train
paternal acres
periosteophyte
phenological season
pilot laboratory
plecotuss
projection aligner
ram cichlids
reduced state classification
ristomycin
rope-a-dope
rough ... up
SAHRP
sarafino
schadenfreuders
sherpas
side cam
silver-leaved nightshades
slick sth down
sparse-matrix
sub-zero treatment device
telecommunication center
teledium
thornlet
tidal sea
to be at the receiving end
to throttle
Togdheer, Gobolka
total footage
travellest
twin choke
two-dimensional finite element method
unreconciled
us headquarters
variipennis
Yambean