时间:2019-02-15 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   On Alternate Earth, all the news was about Hiram Humboldt, the world's premier 1 engineer. He had been caught cheating on his wife—again! Hiram said, "My marriage is already toast. I love my wife, but these young, beautiful women won't leave me alone. It comes with the territory, of course. You can't be a writer, a scientist, a mathematician 2, an intellectual, or even a part-time community college teacher without hordes 3 of women throwing themselves at you. It's the media's fault. They hang outside our homes. They follow us everywhere. We're always under a spotlight 4. It's crazy. There's nothing exciting about us. The media should focus on others—say, athletes. Maybe even actors and singers. That would take the heat off us. I'm sure they can find something interesting about athletes, actors, and singers if they dig deep enough. Maybe the women will start chasing them, and leave us intellectuals alone!"



adj.首要的;n.总理,首相
  • The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
  • He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。
n.数学家
  • The man with his back to the camera is a mathematician.背对着照相机的人是位数学家。
  • The mathematician analyzed his figures again.这位数学家再次分析研究了他的这些数字。
n.移动着的一大群( horde的名词复数 );部落
  • There are always hordes of tourists here in the summer. 夏天这里总有成群结队的游客。
  • Hordes of journalists jostled for position outside the conference hall. 大群记者在会堂外争抢位置。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.公众注意的中心,聚光灯,探照灯,视听,注意,醒目
  • This week the spotlight is on the world of fashion.本周引人瞩目的是时装界。
  • The spotlight followed her round the stage.聚光灯的光圈随着她在舞台上转。
学英语单词
aft perpendicular
Agapetes obovata
air inflow
air locked
art of computation
automatic configuration
axonopathies
bare-minimum
beryl printing
blade-camber angle
brachyandra
bradyspermatism
bravais law
Bunsen funnel
bus room
cache memory control communication
carton plank dented
Cephamondol
ceramic carrier
Chlorazol colours
choice sausage
cleavage rupture
close-fit
combination collar
combination string
Cormcd
cost-comparison
data access object
detailed level
digital control
drive leg
Dunkaka
elephanter
emergency care
equicontinuous homeomorphism
external links
factory production system
fhl
flametight
food self-support
french lawn
full-employment
Gaizhou
genus Coluber
genus xylomelums
Harvard, Mt.
heroins
Hi-Lo lines
Histaspam
homoenergetic
idolism
ileoappendicular hernia
in the brain
in-places
interplanetary space
inverted voltage
isoperimetric constant
Kimism
Kinsey 4s
Koussalan
Krasnoye-na-Volge
law of persistance of energy
lead cone
life-line
locative case
magiques
medium-energy cyclotron
mercury ammonium chloride
metal lead frame
microimages
montgomery clift
multistory
naturizing
OR (operating record)
paranitrophenetole
Phoebus' brand
photoelectric traverse
piousnesses
pneumonia dissecans
portability of operating system
prodigene
propenylidene
protected data set
push-pull amplifirer
putrid odor
real mould
saiffe
semi-automatic telephone switch board
sinus cavernosus
solar activity effect
spermatic nerve
spherical triangle
steam-admission side
subdivergences
sublevel blast-hole method
the butcher's
transvestitism
unlonely
vinti potential
vorticity lobe
wild fennel
yokogawa