时间:2019-01-29 作者:英语课 分类:时间旅行者的妻子


英语课
I laugh and laugh. I have escaped again! Houdini, Prospero, behold 1 me! for I am a magician 2, too.  Nausea 3 overcomes me, and I heave 4 bile onto Kimy’s mums.  
Saturday, May 14, 1983 (Clare is 11 almost 12) CLARE: It’s Mary Christina Heppworth’s birthday and all the fifth-grade girls from St. Basil’s are sleeping over at her house. We have pizza and Cokes and fruit salad for dinner, and Mrs. Heppworth made a big cake shaped like a unicorn’s head with Happy Birthday Mary Christina! in red icing and we sing and Mary Christina blows out all twelve candles in one blow. I think I know what she wished for; I think she wished not to get any taller. That’s what I would wish if I were her, anyway. Mary Christina is the tallest person in our class. She’s 5’9“. Her mom is a little shorter than her, but her dad is really, really tall. Helen asked Mary Christina once and she said he’s 67”. She’s the only girl in her family. and her brothers are all older and shave and they’re really tall, too. They make a point of ignoring us and eating a lot of cake and Patty and Ruth especially giggle 5 a lot whenever they come where we are. It’s so embarrassing. Mary Christina opens her presents. I got her a green sweater just like my blue one that she liked with the crocheted 6 collar from Laura Ashley. After dinner we watch The Parent Trap on video and the Heppworth family kind of hangs around watching us until we all take turns putting on our pajamas 7 in the second floor bathroom and we crowd into Mary Christina’s room that is decorated totally in pink, even the wall-to-wall carpet. You get the feeling Mary Christina’s parents were really glad to finally have a girl after all those brothers. We have all brought our sleeping bags, but we pile them against one wall and sit on Mary Christina’s bed and on the floor. Nancy has a bottle of Peppermint 8 Schnapps and we all drink some. It tastes awful, and it feels like Vicks VapoRub in my chest. We play Truth or Dare. Ruth dares Wendy to run down the hall without her top on. Wendy asks Francie what size bra Lexi, Francie’s seventeen-year-old sister, wears. (Answer: 38D.)

v.看,注视,看到
  • The industry of these little ants is wonderful to behold.这些小蚂蚁辛勤劳动的样子看上去真令人惊叹。
  • The sunrise at the seaside was quite a sight to behold.海滨日出真是个奇景。
n.魔术师,变戏法的人,术士
  • With a wave of his hand,the magician made the rabbit vanish.魔术师手一挥兔子便不见了。
  • The magician transformed the man into a rabbit.魔术师把那个人变成了兔子。
n.作呕,恶心;极端的憎恶(或厌恶)
  • Early pregnancy is often accompanied by nausea.怀孕期常有恶心的现象。
  • He experienced nausea after eating octopus.吃了章鱼后他感到恶心。
vt.(用力地)举起,抛
  • We heave him onto the platform.我们把他抬起送到站台上。
  • Heave the box onto the top shelf.把这个箱子举到最上面一层搁板上。
n.痴笑,咯咯地笑;v.咯咯地笑着说
  • Both girls began to giggle.两个女孩都咯咯地笑了起来。
  • All that giggle and whisper is too much for me.我受不了那些咯咯的笑声和交头接耳的样子。
v.用钩针编织( crochet的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Mom and I crocheted new quilts. 我和妈妈钩织了新床罩。 来自辞典例句
  • Aunt Paula crocheted a beautiful blanket for the baby. 宝拉婶婶为婴孩编织了一条美丽的毯子。 来自互联网
n.睡衣裤
  • At bedtime,I take off my clothes and put on my pajamas.睡觉时,我脱去衣服,换上睡衣。
  • He was wearing striped pajamas.他穿着带条纹的睡衣裤。
n.薄荷,薄荷油,薄荷糖
  • Peppermint oil is very good for regulating digestive disorders.薄荷油能很有效地调节消化系统失调。
  • He sat down,popped in a peppermint and promptly choked to death.他坐下来,突然往嘴里放了一颗薄荷糖,当即被噎死。
学英语单词
AAFP
abiotetra
accessory device
adjustable voltage source
age-distribution
anserine skin
arc root
Bollebygd
Buprestidae
call identifier
carburretion
Carleton's spots
changed my tune
chronophage
clamors
cleaning dozer
Clear Lake
cyberfeminisms
cyst of mediastinum
denouncest
domestic fecal sewage
double bead tyre
ecosystem-level
exemption from customs examination
farmoutee
frake
Gerpinnes
gold dichloride
green cut
Hashimoto toxicosis
high strength alloy steel
Hindi
Hwadae-gun
hypopharynges
illustrative system
incomplete entry
inexpressibles
Israel firster
l'espinasse
landau-ginzburg parameter
Ledo Road
Lepistemon lobatum
log uniform distribution
mackerels
make way through the water
malarcher
mass-produce
microprogram control
mounir
mudpuddle
neutral wind shear
nominal power output
object-relational DBMS
openworks
out for scalps
ownership of flats in a building
PCZ
pentadecimal
pineal gland body
pinkified
positive colloid
pretranscription
Puccinellia arjinshanensis
reignes
reniform leaf
rhizoma zingiberis recens
roundleaf bats
sat.nav
sclerema
self-complementary code
self-locking catch
semi-complete
shambocks
shrinkage control finish
sitcommercial
slide feed screw
slide gate tapping
sphaerodactylid
stabilization by rotary churning pile
standard switching impulse withstand voltage
statements of case
stretch forth the hands against
subceilings
suckability
sweptest
systemviews
tea-shop
terylen
textured filament
the joke of the village
thornfree
till the land
touching ball
toy store
transient overshoot
Treves's fold
turbo charger speed
unpersisting
use tax on automobiles
walking aid
what-d'you-call-him
wipe on