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
absolute value machine
actual address
air-exhaust ventilator
ALAG
approximate sum
aromatics separation
autosummarize
Ayurvedists
calendar unlocking yoke
cheese souffles
Ching-ming
chronic malaria
Contessa Entellina
core lightener
Dacnonycha
Dog-shores
dome of silence
drip-pan
electron dot symbol
encephalo
exchange of securities
extraction efficiency
federal deposit insurance corporation
finish cut
friendship cuddle
gall-sickness
gpl(gram per liter)
hayfever
HDTV set
health service
high lift devices
intermediate carrier
intermediate user
interruption of the extinctive prescription
jack-shaft
joustings
knittle
knop
lagging on the tides retardation
latrogenic
Libellula
like as not
make something
mammary cystadenoma
median claw
Mossgiel
mud dab
multivariate paired comparison
n-Octylgallate
neo-renaissance
nitromethane-oxygen mixture
Oba, Hill
offer itself
ortyodactylous
oulachans
outscolded
overstrowing
pantar
paraphrasably
parchment finishing
parfried
paternity identification
peep sight glass
Philadelphus henryi
piRNAs
plis diapir
pointer information
potassium hydrogen sulfite
prennical root
queensland kauri
Rostov on Don
rubbishness
scalar electron
scale order
second industrial revolution
sentimentalizer
shade-adapted
ship bottom anti-fouling paint
sitting-out
slatches
spireme thread
stable-hand
standard of taxation
storage time
suaviter in modo,fortiter in re
subject-like
sulphenone
swmmer
tapered honing machine
technical error message (tem)
telemetry filter
temperament
to-eke
totally-reflecting prism
tube wall thickness gauge
uberant
ungrammatical
VOPR
waivery
wall beam
Yurécuaro