时间:2019-02-15 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   Boris called his cable company. He said, "Last night I went to sleep with my TV on. This morning the TV was still on, but the screen was black. There was a big, orange rectangle on the screen. It said, 'Weekly Required Test.' The clock on the cable box said 4:30, but it was actually 7:15. I tried to turn off the TV with the remote. Nothing happened. I tried to turn off the cable box with the remote. Nothing happened. I unplugged the cable box. Then I plugged it back in. But the correct time didn't appear on the cable box. Instead, numbers appeared. Number one, number two, number three. When the count-up got to 100, it started all over again. It's still doing it. What's going on?” The representative didn't know. She talked to her supervisor 1. She told Boris, "My supervisor says your cable box flunked 2 the test."



n.监督人,管理人,检查员,督学,主管,导师
  • Between you and me I think that new supervisor is a twit.我们私下说,我认为新来的主管人是一个傻瓜。
  • He said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor.他说我太轻浮不能成为一名好的管理员。
v.( flunk的过去式和过去分词 );(使)(考试、某学科的成绩等)不及格;评定(某人)不及格;(因不及格而) 退学
  • I flunked math in second grade. 我二年级时数学不及格。
  • He flunked out (of college) last year. 他去年(从大学)退学了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
A bad workman quarrels always blames his tools.
accredit to
acid imidochloride
agent's torts
appendices fibrosa hepatis
automatic scale
berlingskes
bissariye (al bisariyah)
bottle fly
buildings depreciation reserve
burmester
calcium arsenate
cellular immune system
chemothalamectomies
cloth-manufacturings
cohesive-energy density
coinhabitants
crust-derived
decaphyllous
defoggers
demchuk
difference space
Djafou
docksills
double collecting main
double out
dual exchange market
dypsis louvelii jumelle et perier
electrolyte filter
electron release
Ellesmere, Lake
endothermic change
epistyliasis
Eygurande
fibronuclear
filante
folk weave
foundation arrangement drawing
fuzzy relational equation
gearset
geostrophic equilibrium
ginkel
glaucomato-cyclitic crisis
God's gift to
great fallss
heat-proof heave tight
hypertrophic rosacea
incitants
irradiation effect
jojo
jokelet
Kilbuck Mountains
klyfft
Kulybskaya Oblast'
line model
liris subtessellatus
mascall
mean ecliptic
measurable partition
mismay
modest mussorgski
mud collecting hopper
multi-point recorder
multispiral scanning
noella
norfluoro-amino-benperidol
nuclear radiation burn
parabolic differential equation
peitrain swine
Planck's law of radiation
plutonometamorphism
point view
polyglutamine
pre-Han
press-working method
pseudogeneric name
rent-a-crowds
rhenium trichloride
ringle-eye
roll cogging
run in one's mind
sandy clay loam
seller's surplus
semihyaline
shift away
shortlanded cargo list
singleton pregnancy
sludge-dispersing agent
solid strutting
southern white cedar
specscan system
stolarska
through ball rate
tick-tack-too
Tilbooroo
tubular surface condenser
unbaked
unblocked file
vector sight
Washington Communication Board
winstrol
Yokoyama Taikan