时间:2019-02-15 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   She called her cable 1 company. She told the rep, "If I press the System button, it turns on the cable box but not the TV. If I press the Power button, all I get is a black TV screen with a rectangle 2 that says HDMI. I have to keep pressing the same two buttons willy-nilly before I finally get a picture." The rep said, "Your remote 3 isn't in sync with your TV. Follow these steps. Press the OK and TV buttons together. When the TV button turns red, press 228. That will turn your TV off. Then press the System button. That will turn your TV on—and off. That's it. You won't ever need to press your Power button again, unless you change the batteries 4 in the remote." She said, "Well, I've never changed the batteries, so why did this happen in the first place?" The rep didn't know.



n.缆绳,索;电缆;电报;vt.电汇,打电报
  • Don't forget to cable us as soon as you arrive.别忘了一到就给我发个电报。
  • The worker attached a cable.工人连接电缆。
n.长方形,矩形
  • Suppose the width of a rectangle is x metres.设长方形的宽是x米。
  • He handed me a little rectangle of white paper.他递给我一张小小的长方形白纸片。
adj.遥远的,僻远的;细微的,稀少的,漠然的
  • I'm afraid your chances of success are rather remote.我担心你成功的机会极小。
  • The thing happened in the remote past.这件事发生在遥远的过去。
n.电池;(蓄)电池(组)( battery的名词复数 );一系列;排炮;层架式鸡笼
  • to replace the batteries 更换电池
  • He is certain that this TV set will operate on batteries. 他肯定这个电视机可以用电池。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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Aberglaube
adjustment test
air-cooled heat exchanger
Aolina
average length
beta-fluorography
bore tide
capital of Indonesia
chip inspection
coccidium
colour passbands
concave mirror
conservatoriums
correct grinding of tool
crystalline cone cell
data encoding system
deinstallations
dense fog
diagnostic criteria
direct electrical analogue
double dabble
doublepresure ring
dual laterolog
equivalent width of jet
ethno-nationalism
ferrite-rod memory
gel precipitation
genisteine-alkaloid
glaucescens
glut-glut
gnatsnap
haemorrhage
hang-loose sign
high-frequency oscillography
hot chamber plunger die casting machine
humid analysis
hypocompact
initial listing fee
initial temperature difference of condenser
internal layer
keep'st
lepto
levisomnous
Margaret I
Maxwell Wagner mechanism
mommessins
moving needle type
myxoepithelioma
napes
Narten present
navy receiver
Nordleda
nutation drive
over-suspicious
packing bush
Poeesque
prohibitions
prt enable
pseudophloems
rate matching
reactor-up
recurrent aphthous stomatitis
replica grating
right angle retractor
rock bonding
romantic comedy
rotating sector wheel
salting (-out) evaporator
sance
sand box shell
sardomozide
second law of thermodynamics
second papers
seed husking plant
sekkoko zone
self-world
shaving hob
shortnoses
silazanecarboxylic esters
siphoviruses
size class
sneerful
sorps
sprett
stainless paint
streamlined pump
synonym resolution
take off spot
temporal sampling theorem
textual interpretation
tough minded
transpower
trihydroxyanthraquinone
turbulent diffusion coefficient
unblossomed
under cooled steam
unicity
verdorn
vile character
vincorine
world wide navigational warning service
xylodine