时间:2018-12-04 作者:英语课 分类:英语语境识词


英语课

  Unit 10

A Beautiful Dress

My neighbor's eight-year-old daughter used to stay in the countryside, her native place. Recently her parents brought her to town to live with them. Wild and uneducated, she would swear or use dirty words when she was displeased 1. Sometimes she went so far as to roll on the ground, to the shock of all people around. Her parents tried to tame 2 her by beating and kicking, only to result in more violent 3 outbursts. Finally they became thoroughly 4 disappointed 5 with her.

One day their next-door neighbor, a retired 6 woman teacher, gave the girl a snow-white dress, which was very beautiful. It immediately caught the girl's eyes and made them shine brightly.

The girl put on the dress and became quite another person. She no longer abused 7 or hit others, even less rolled on the floor. She knew running wild was beneath her in such a beautiful dress. Since then the girl had been gentle, neat, and lovely.

The story set me thinking a lot. Perhaps everyone has a beautiful dress hidden somewhere in his or her heart. Only some people are not aware of it, forget it or abandon 8 it. Beauty is a power force or weapon -- that's something unrealized by many of us. it can arouse 9 fine qualities that humans are born with but have so far hidden somewhere. It has a soul-shaking influence that is indeed unmatched.



1 displeased
a.不快的
  • The old man was displeased and darted an angry look at me. 老人不高兴了,瞪了我一眼。
  • He was displeased about the whole affair. 他对整个事情感到很不高兴。
2 tame
adj.驯服的,柔顺的,乏味的;v.驯养,使...驯服
  • His job is to tame lions.他的工作是驯狮。
  • He is so tame that he agrees with everybody.他很随和,总是顺从他人的意见。
3 violent
adj.暴力的,猛烈的,激烈的,极端的,凶暴的,歪曲的
  • The madman was violent and had to be locked up.这个精神病患者很凶暴,不得不把他锁起来。
  • They caught him and gave him a violent beating.他们抓住了他,把他狠狠打了一顿。
4 thoroughly
adv.完全地,彻底地,十足地
  • The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
  • The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。
5 disappointed
adj.失望的,不满意的,不如意的
  • He seemed disappointed when the man refused his request.当那个人拒绝了他的要求时他看起来很失望。
  • He was disappointed so often that he became hopeless.他屡次失望,以致变为了绝望。
6 retired
adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
  • The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
7 abused
v.妄用( abuse的过去式和过去分词 );虐待;辱骂
  • All the children had been physically and emotionally abused. 所有这些儿童的身心都受到了摧残。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • This rule was brought into being because the old law was abused. 由于旧的法律遭到滥用,这条规则便应运而生。 来自《简明英汉词典》
8 abandon
vt.抛弃,离弃,遗弃;放弃
  • We had no option but to abandon the meeting.我们别无选择,只有放弃这次会面。
  • They abandon themselves to drinking.他们沉湎于饮酒。
9 arouse
vt.唤醒,叫醒;唤起,激起
  • We must arouse them to fight with enemies.我们必须唤起他们同敌人斗争。
  • He fell into a sound sleep, don't arouse him.他睡熟了,别唤醒他。
学英语单词
acrospiromas
analytic operator-valued function
area levelling
atomic oxygen fluence model
axial cut distance
azimuth compiler
bahorok
ballast draft condition
batch calculation
bellowed
causative factors of injury
cepalotribe
cobalt nitrate
commodity in warehouse
companion piece
completion message
concentration tracer
cu fts
despotic monarch
dextropropoxyphene
doubling course
dwarf grey willows
elbow-bone
ewan mcgregor
fakeness
flat-plate pressing machine
foot piece
free open textured sand
friction bezel ring
game-fishing
hecto-coulombs
henders
heterogenous catalysis
hog-nosed snake
hollow cathode aluminum ion laser
horsemeat
hungers
hydrophiling
ill-luck
in boundless enthusiasm
incident neutron energy
Indigosol Green IB
iner
katastates
keep your chin up
lavand
load-carrying winding
low-volume shipper
Macquarie Island
magson
Maskil
mason cities
master distance indicator
MCAIS
measurement pattern
mene, mene, tekel, upharsin
metasilicate
more significant bit
Murray State University
new productive capacity
nonoperating
numerical response
optimum capital stock
pachycholia
paramilitarisms
paratrygonica
pentapyrrolidinium
phobic layer
phrasemakings
pinos
power weight ratio
prolified
rageaholics
ravet
reactive termination
redirector
retrofittable
rookly
rotundatus
rugous
satyr plays
sea-cornet
Seckels
single-tub wagon tipper
special holder
spironolactone(anti-aldosterone)
spitball
standard money unit of account
state of permanent neutrality
statistic bit rate
steel hemp
suck at
suratenses
to service
tweer
underground gasification of coal
urcaryote
variable-duration
water regeneration technique
whip a fault out of sb.
wormly
yellowishness