时间:2019-02-15 作者:英语课 分类:英语笑话(MP3+文本)


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delight使愉快,spot发现,honor system诚信制度



笑话原文】



Can Be Trusting?



Everything about country customs delighted my neighbors who had moved to our small town from the city. Then one day they spotted 1 a sign, “Fresh Eggs for Sale,” at a roadside stand where payment was on the honor system.



“Why can’t everyone be this trusting?” they said as they put their money in a box and took a carton. When they got home and opened it, they found 11 eggs.





中文译文】



能信任吗?



我们的邻居刚从城市搬到我们这个小镇上来。一切有关农村习俗的事情都使他们感到高兴。有一天,他们看到路边小摊有一个牌子“出售新鲜鸡蛋”,是用那种传统的无人售货的方式。他们把钱放进一个盒子,拿到了一打鸡蛋,并且感慨地说:“为什么人们不能都这样信任别人呢?”回到家里,打开盒子,他们看到里面只有11个鸡蛋。



词汇讲解】



1.trusting容易相信的。the trusting nature of a small child幼儿轻信的天性。She’s not a trusting girl.她不是个轻易相信别人的人。



2.custom习俗。也可以指“顾客”:I shall withdraw my custom from that shop.我再也不去那家店铺买东西了。它还可以指“海关”:How long will it take us to pass the Customs?通过海关检查要花费我们多少时间?也可以作形容词用,是“定制的”的意思:custom shoes定做的鞋子



3.spot发现。spot a mistake发现错误;He was the first to spot the danger.他是第一个发觉险情的人。“使有污渍”:His trousers were spotted with mud.他的裤子上有泥渍。



4.payment付款/支付的款项。a cheque payment for rent支付房租的支票;payment in advance预付;payment in arrear 2拖欠。When can I expect payment?什么时候可以付我钱?



5. honor system诚信制度,指出于信任而不加监督的制度,如学校的无监考考试制、监狱的无看守监禁制等等。Self-service stores must run on the honor system.自助商店必须采用无人监督的诚信制。



6.carton纸盒。a carton of cigarettes一条香烟;a carton of milk 一盒牛奶。也可以作动词,是“用纸盒装”的意思:cartoned dairy products盒装奶制品。



adj.有斑点的,斑纹的,弄污了的
  • The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
  • Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
n.欠款
  • He is six weeks in arrear with his rent.他已拖欠房租6周。
  • The arts of medicine and surgery are somewhat in arrear in africa.医疗和外科手术在非洲稍微有些落后。
学英语单词
acclivi-tous
Acer platanoides
additional paragraph in auditor's report
air-brake dynamometer
Ammate
anchorable
Andreyevskiy
apertura
ashtanga
astatic
auriculo-ventricular
bequeathest
bicornuta
biotransfer
Blenheim Orange
calculus of lower urinary tract
callionymus variegatus
charge-sheet
chernyy otrog
collcynth
comma movable
community-gardening
contagious polyarthritis
corocalene
counter clockwise (ccw)
counterefforts
crowflower
de-esterification
deficit covering bonds
desalin(iz)ation
dichlorbenil
ecureuils
entero-chromaffin cell
explosive pressure
financial environment
fluxgate magnetometer
Fogg Art Museum
fulguration current
Gastrocybe lateritia
generator field control
get the memo
gibelike
graphics adapter
grating of gears
gunnery practice
hematopoietic system
high-voltage switch
hylozoism
hypersonic glider
ideal imperfect-crystal
ill-natured
illegal condemnation
intergroup behavior
klier
koe-san (goesan)
komun-som (huk-to )
lathe tool bit
lending agreement
like kings
lindahl taxes
main longitudinal frame
microflake tobacco sbeet
micropegmatitic structure
ministry for industry and trade
minor orders
momchaunce
National city Bank of New York
neutron activity
normalization routine
oceanic affinity
oxyphosphate of copper cement
palm-presser
parameter plane method
pasteurized lactic beverage
peneite
phase diagram of reservoir hydrocarbon
photoactivity detector
playdoh
plug for seal
printergram
refuse incinerator
repairable material
rhizocephalous
rusticalness
science teachers
seeabler
seeing about
ship technology
siccitate
Sisymbrium officinale
snakeskin glaze
spreader-ditcher
stand point
standing-wave method
stroke ... down
stuffing gland
truncheoning
trustor
ursaenate
VREPAIR
wanderstars