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
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acrrospiroma
aesthetases
ambient networking
an angle of incidence
arithmetic frequency scale
atmospherics
automatic production
Barkhera
Bora Bora
Burpies
cd-xes
centrilobular
chrysopal
church organ
clearance loading gage
cross disking
crosslinked polyester
curly maple
cyber-school
DDVF (dimethyl-dichlorovinylphosphate)
deep volar arch
defect of eyebrow
derating curve
dictamnolid
DLEUROTOMARIOIDEA
dodgerblues
doubletree
dulias
dwight lyman moodies
environment contamination
fair sex
feed inlet
fibrae arcuatae externae dorsales
flap extraction of cataract
glass tube pressure gauge
glucosephosphate
Gujranwala Division
Haeju-man
handybilly
heliotropian
hemicorporeal
hermetic sealing
high-voltage switch
hot trim
hydrous bucholzite (hydrobucholzite)
i-peinted
ice drink
induced labour
iraggic
jamstec
kindermuseum
Lascari
latent defect
luminol
M'F. R.
main and by-product production
malinski
manganese copper alloys
mechanical pressure recorder
Mobert
multicolor Nanking brocade
museumwide
Nephroselmis
newbies
nimbility
nonmarine
nonmultiplicative
normatron
Numto Uval
option charge
overprioritizing
Pan-American Highway
prometaphase movement
property information system
prororoca
rastle
revivor
Ribostamin
rivalty
roquin
RSLD
schiafino
Schultze's placenta
sea water science
sialism
spiral scale
stab(punctured)
susceptibility to failure
tabular cell
thermoplastic welding strip
thin skinned ingot
trampler
treaty of brest-litovsk
tsung
Turbotville
twospeed axle
uncontent
Urban Cowboys
ventilated supercavitating propeller
walking dragline excavator