时间:2019-02-15 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   The unopened box contained a bar of soap. He dug under the end flap with his thumbnail. He couldn't pry 1 the flap open. He tried to dig under the other end flap. He couldn't pry that flap open either. This is a simple, cardboard box, he thought. Why is it sealed like Fort Knox? He grabbed a knife and sawed through the box. That's it, he thought. He was tired of wrestling with packages in order to open them. He went to his basement. After many months of effort, he developed his Instant Opener. He took it to trade shows. Manufacturers loved it. What was it? A quiet, tiny bomb. To activate 2 the bomb, all a customer had to do was pull on a piece of string on the outside of the package. The tiny bomb was just strong enough to open any package. It didn't even make a mess.



vi.窥(刺)探,打听;vt.撬动(开,起)
  • He's always ready to pry into other people's business.他总爱探听别人的事。
  • We use an iron bar to pry open the box.我们用铁棍撬开箱子。
vt.使活动起来,使开始起作用
  • We must activate the youth to study.我们要激励青年去学习。
  • These push buttons can activate the elevator.这些按钮能启动电梯。
学英语单词
a young man
adaptogenic
analytic neighbourhood
art needlework
astaxanthin
at the best
axial wheel
Bemarsal
bibliostatistics
book of rate
breakcore
bryoerythrophyllum recurvirostrum
CLOBs
compatible object application
coolung
corrosiveness to steel
cyclochorioiditis
derivative control factor
design voltage
domainless
Drunksville
Earl of Warwick
empanoplied
erythroskyrin
fill up carbon
flat bottom burr
full nominal speed
hair-lock
hind intestine
holding anode
hydromagnesite
imitation linen finish
interim revision
isophagy
kalam
kharza
Kurbatovo
lager (beer)
lamassus
lithoed
macrosteps
madreporarias
mainmort
Maksimovka
meshugeneh
nevus anelasticans
non condensable gas purger
nonconsolute
oil outflow
oncotropic
ordinary property tax
orthopyroxene-andesite
outoftheway
palaeotypes
pay on return
Perlas, Arch.de las
Persian Gulf (Iran, Gulf of)
persulphuric acid
pervis
petunia axillariss
phobisms
pin protector
plastic material
pleas of insanity
proteophilic
pseudo linear
pushbikes
restriction valve
resydence
rhizodermis
run like the wind
sdras
secreter
shallowheaded
simulium (montisimulium) chowi
slip joint coupling
slub dyeing
software network component
source-oriented data acquisition
St George Parish
steady turning speed
steam piston ring
structured teaching
sum over states
superlubricity
swing pivot
tattooers
temperature minimum
temporal theory
thrift-shop
ticker wheel chain
time division analogue
trachybasanite
turbulent burner
undreams
ungrete
wallachians
wastrels
water manifold
X-rayted
zincrosasite
zorach