时间:2019-02-04 作者:英语课 分类:英语博客 A cup of English


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  It's time that I bought a new camera. I need a digital that has a decent zoom 1. I realized that the other day when I was outside, trying to get a good shot of two birds who were nesting. I had been busy throwing the ball to our dogs, when I saw a flash of white out of the corner of my eye. When I turned to see what it was, I saw a bird, obviously the male, sitting on top of the bird house, with a beak 2 full of white feathers. There were so many of them, that they covered half of his body. He had seen me looking at him, and was nervously 3 twitching 5 his head back and forth 6, waiting for an opportunity to get into the house in order to carry on with his project. The female was off to the right; she was hard to see because her coloring was so pale. I inched my way forward with the camera already in focus and zoomed 7 as far as it could go. However, these smart, nervous little creatures aren't stupid. Their eyes were fixed 8 on me, and they didn't go anywhere near their birdhouse entrance while I was around. They would fly off and observe me from a distant tree. So, I would back off each time and wait for them to return. This went on a few times, until I realised that I was getting nowhere. So, I did a balancing act on the edge of an outside reclining chair, whilst leaning on a wall, holding the camera around the corner towards the birds. I couldn't even see what I was taking a picture of; I just knew that I had more of a chance of getting a good shot if the birds couldn't see me. I risked my own health for the sake of art, people; I hope you appreciate it. Anyway, I got a fairly good picture of the busy parents-to-be, making the nest cosy 9 for their future chicks. It was worth the danger. But next time, I'll just get a better camera.

Grammar notes.

Useful expressions: out of the corner of (someone's) eye, decent, to twitch 4, male and female.

1. He was hiding, but I saw his red shoes out of the corner of my eye.

2. You really should buy yourself a decent suit for the interview; give a good impression.

3. My eye has been twitching the whole morning; it's really annoying.

4. If you want puppies you need to buy a male for your female, you know.



n.急速上升;v.突然扩大,急速上升
  • The airplane's zoom carried it above the clouds.飞机的陡直上升使它飞到云层之上。
  • I live near an airport and the zoom of passing planes can be heard night and day.我住在一个飞机场附近,昼夜都能听到飞机飞过的嗡嗡声。
n.鸟嘴,茶壶嘴,钩形鼻
  • The bird had a worm in its beak.鸟儿嘴里叼着一条虫。
  • This bird employs its beak as a weapon.这种鸟用嘴作武器。
adv.神情激动地,不安地
  • He bit his lip nervously,trying not to cry.他紧张地咬着唇,努力忍着不哭出来。
  • He paced nervously up and down on the platform.他在站台上情绪不安地走来走去。
v.急拉,抽动,痉挛,抽搐;n.扯,阵痛,痉挛
  • The smell made my dog's nose twitch.那股气味使我的狗的鼻子抽动着。
  • I felt a twitch at my sleeve.我觉得有人扯了一下我的袖子。
n.颤搐
  • The child in a spasm kept twitching his arms and legs. 那个害痉挛的孩子四肢不断地抽搐。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • My eyelids keep twitching all the time. 我眼皮老是跳。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
adv.向前;向外,往外
  • The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
  • He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
v.(飞机、汽车等)急速移动( zoom的过去式 );(价格、费用等)急升,猛涨
  • Traffic zoomed past us. 车辆从我们身边疾驰而过。
  • Cars zoomed helter-skelter, honking belligerently. 大街上来往车辆穿梭不停,喇叭声刺耳。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
adj.温暖而舒适的,安逸的
  • We spent a cosy evening chatting by the fire.我们在炉火旁聊天度过了一个舒适的晚上。
  • It was so warm and cosy in bed that Simon didn't want to get out.床上温暖而又舒适,西蒙简直不想下床了。
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acaroid resin
accentual verse
aesthetically
after-sales
Ahnsbeck
air outlet valve
analog nonvolatile memory
antiwelfare
apel
base composition
Bitis lachesis
bullet-hole
calinaga buddha formosana
cherrywood
China Capital Markets
coic
colemerik (hakkari)
Comyn
diminutivity
driving state vector
Dubini
endomide
Eriboll
Erigeron seravschanicus
failed to configure
fribley
Fried Liver Attack
Gardnerian Wiccans
gospel-shark
griscom
guildfordia triumphans
hideaway bed
higre
hilyer
honested
infrasternal notch
institute of patent attorneys
integrated program for commodities
interrupted singal
John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Karmatian
Karpos
keenum
Kronotskiy Poluostrov
Lac-Beauport
lament for
layered distributed operating system
lienic rupture
Lāsh-e Joveyn
map exercise
meteorium cucullatum
micropigs
moon shoot
mordovias
myrmeleon alticola
natural-science
nonauthor
nontricyclic
nukuoro atoll
Obi Islands
oceanic supremacy
one-sidednesses
packet mode terminal
pale thrombus
phlyctenotherapy
photoelectric tachometer
pick up&delivery service
pitsfords
postexodontic complication
postpositionally
pulse-amplitude analyzer
pulverized coal preparation system
pump monitor light
recces
relational approach
riemersma
rock cover
running mates
sacrificial corrosion
sample error
Schuhplattler
Selye syndrome
sleazeballs
soft hyphens
sparkletts
special field artillery
standard method agar
streptococcus feline
summer monsoon
think on your feet
time division telemetry system
to hand
unloading time
untherapied
verd
ward politics
waste disposal vessel
werner karl heisenbergs
Yankee Stadium
yarlyk
zigzag feed