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
abductor ventralis muscle
acta
Ad Dukaydik
aerothermochemist
avon
basic categories of soil classification
be brought on the carpet
binding attachment
blow doors
bought in
brain surgeons
bryozoan
catches fire
class Cyanobacteria
clastobryum glabrescens
communistery
conchairamine
conjugate diametral plane
courtesy phone
cyclohexanone resin
direction to a jury
distance along the quasiorthogonal
doryl
dumb card
dye penetrant process
eakleite (xonotlite)
ecclesiasts
eddylike
elevon area
emptyish
energy-transfer equation
entrepreurialism
Ephedra rhytidosperma
erre
evaluation of merchandise
even grained texture
field check
frequency range expanding method
generalized Ohm's law
genter
genus bombaxes
Ghilarza
God's bones
graylisting
Hastie, William Henry
heidepriem
heterofermentangium
hinge type connection rod
induction type ammeter
Joule-Thomson valve
let there be
linearly polarized light output
loose-lifting piston
Lukovit
lusader
madryam
magnetoelectric transducer
maladie du sommeil
metal faced joinery
Mezzanego
mis-fired
Mlles.
Neu-Anspach
normal bonded-phase chromatography
Oratorio San Antonio
ovarian condition
package policy
pill mass roller
pindicks
plastic wax
Prehensile-Tailed
primapterin
printed circuit wiring
product motives
projectile-vomiting
pupping
reefous
roundness grade
routineness
scope of repairing course
second doctor
Serpentine Hot Springs
shofars
sodium tetraphosphate
spunking up
Stew in your own juices
stimulation therapy
syncephalis formosana
Tazolé
TDM bus switching
temperature-induced
the crown of the year
the watches of the night
tradeable
trellis post
trench mouths
tricuspid valves
two-cycle coast
unduly burdensome
vasa sanguinea retinae
Winthrop Harbor
wittner