时间:2019-01-28 作者:英语课 分类:英语博客 A cup of English


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  The mouse hole on the stairs.

Beginners.

Our house has one flight of stairs that goes up to the bedrooms. There is a small landing half way up. This area is in the middle of being decorated. I have taken down some wall paper, and soon the walls will be painted. As I was looking at the torn wall paper, I found a hole in the wall. And, do you know what was next to the hole? Two pieces of cheese. I didn't put them there. So who did? I think I have the answer. My children have great imaginations and they love animals. We read them stories about animals and animal adventures all the time. They also have videos that show animals who are almost human. My suspicion is that someone is hoping that a mouse family is living in our walls. I'm not sure if I would like that! But what stories we could tell!

Grammar notes.

Related vocabulary: A flight of stairs = a staircase 1; a landing; animal adventures; imagination; stories.

Verbs: to take down/ put up wall paper. To have a good imagination.

Someone is hoping that/ I am hoping that ....

Advanced.

Recently I have found cheese missing from the fridge. It is not that unusual, of course, having four children who are growing fast and able to help themselves to food in the kitchen. But, what is unusual is where I have found the missing cheese. On the landing, half-way up the stairs, next to a hole that sits right above the carpet is where the cheese has been moved to. Hmmm. Why there? It is imagination that has driven the kids, which one in particular I'm not sure, to coax 2 out Beatrix Potter mice from the walls. Wouldn't it be fascinating to see a family of mice run out and grab 3 the cheese, leave a thankyou note, and pop back into their safe hole! These mice are inteligent, of course. They can not only write, but they also know how to sew, play instruments, and have parties. Didn't you know that? At least, that is what the stories that we read to our children say. Perhaps it would be not only a cute experience for my children, but a useful one for me. If these creatures are so inteligent, we could make friends, and then they could help me with the laundry or do some ironing. Wait a minute, let me get some more cheese.....

Related vocabulary: half-way up/ half-way down; the landing; in particular;

Verbs: to coax = to encourage; to pop in/ back/ out/ by etc = colloquial 4 english for to come / to return / to leave / to visit.

* Inteligent = american spelling of intelligent.



n.楼梯,楼梯间
  • Footsteps on the staircase interrupted his train of thought.楼梯上传来脚步声,打断了他的思路。
  • I crossed the staircase landing,and entered the room she indicated.我经过一个楼梯平台,走进她说的那个房间。
v.哄诱,劝诱,用诱哄得到,诱取
  • I had to coax the information out of him.我得用好话套出他掌握的情况。
  • He tried to coax the secret from me.他试图哄骗我说出秘方。
vt./n.攫取,抓取;vi.攫取,抓住(at)
  • It is rude to grab a seat.抢占座位是不礼貌的。
  • The thief made a grab at my bag but I pushed him away.贼想抢我的手提包,但被我推开了。
adj.口语的,会话的
  • It's hard to understand the colloquial idioms of a foreign language.外语里的口头习语很难懂。
  • They have little acquaintance with colloquial English. 他们对英语会话几乎一窍不通。
学英语单词
abbeyhills
access mask register
al-midhar
alternate angles
an infant in arms
angoleses
artificial alimentation
at war
Auchencorth Moss
balance-of-payment
baton rompu
bendazac
BIET
Bohol Sea
Bolbec
Brown Act.
carpometacarpal
chamiso
chief checker
chinese mushrooms
collaborative product commerce
column constraint
conus coronatus
cortex pseudolaricis
da Vinci, Leonardo
distance signal
distensibility
double colonization
earth leakage circuit breaker
electromagnetic recorder
Euro rate
excessive displacement
extraction mark
Faslodex
Fifie
flat-rate system
frees
Gazelle Pen.
genus Cymbidium
group starter
Guy Fawkes Night
hairline
heat evil
hegemonicon
hemipharyngectomy
hewin
in a good cause
inquire out
intratympanic
investment decision economics
iron boride
jaguars
Jewish holy day
joint cargo system
lateral reactivity
logically cohesive module
low five
maximum service rating
metagreywacke
Miały
mistake
moll-buzz
moral imperatives
musculi thoracis
neutralizing zone
nicotine-lime dust
nozzle inclination
par-four
passivisable
payment in international trade
photon excited X-ray fluorescence analysis
plate flow sheet
precedings
primary microhardness standard machine
ramus ophthalmicus infer. n. trigem.
recovery period of added investment
reinforcing action
reshuffling
reversible cell
salaries tax payer
sated
scardace
scrap briquetting
scribe coating
separate thrust collar
sequential selection
shallow-brained
smoothness of operation
styloideum
suppressed carrier
tempi
The United Nations Packaging Symbol
topology console
tramazoline
two-man concept
unharrowed
unpunched paper tape
vicinal rule
voting-methods
whip-tail
Wintocaine
Woodward-Hoffmann rule