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
'Ammān
acid-digestion sulfate spring
Acoustic-ultrasonic
actinodielectric
aerospace medical test device
airproofs
alfonsina
Anglist
aqult
asset
bar one etc.
bearers of the sword
Benitachell
bereaved of
bi-metal plate
booking request
brake protecting relay
bucintoroes
burning rate accelerator
catatonic depressive episode (depressive stupor)
Chingiztau
chocolate cyst of ovary
Cleyera parvifolia
commissura anterior alba
depts.
descent of testicle
dimethyldiethyltin
discharge sump
eccentric and cam valve gear
eutectic-cell structure
faculty
fertility male
ferula
florette
fluoram
fluorescent brightener
geomagnetic noise
group climate
Hadjeb el Aïoun
handling unit
Harlem sunsets
heat balance data
heavy oil pyrolysis
Hobsonville
hub cover
incident response plan
inertia constant
intellectual performance
iterating
j-antenna
kickball
lagothrix flavicauda
Landak, Sungai
Laue's conditions
long-period superlattic
medelln
minimum controllable power level
motor-launches
multilayer wound coil
multistage game
navicula satura
non-viability
Noramidazophen
observation result
old icelandics
open gill spreader
opening code
oxidation phosphorylation
parliamentary legislation
pascin
photosensitive nonsilver material
polychrome figurecurve vase
precision depth recorder
process chart analysis
projecting economy
proprietary agent
prosentence
safety lever
semidetached
shashlick
slickening
Soizy-aux-Bois
souryakari (bulgaria)
strategic intent
strindberg
subcohort
tail scale
testing error
theoretical and empirical analysis
tractus corticobulbaris
trigastric
trouvere (n. france)
tying one on
underglaze blue vase with fruit and floral sprays
up-lighter
uruks
vaccinia myelitis
vagitate
valence alternation pair (vap)
witneyite (whitneyite)
wooden rails
yiled trial