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
accidental parasite
achromatic
adden
amiran
ammonium tungstophosphate (AWP)
Angüés
aortic isthmus
artificial draught
ATPV
bacchanal
background levels
barrel pump
binary channels
bio-methane
bitectifier
cano colorado
car-dumper
change one's residence
charigs
Christmas-tree lights
circumferentially
common-mode input voltage
complementary colour
contact ulcer of vocal cord
convulxin
cowboy hat
creamwove
dcdc
de brun-van eckstein rearrangement
de-blocking
death rattles
disgulf
dynamic hardware reconfiguration
eco-chemicals
edified
electronic telescope
eleusine coracanas
feldstein
foot-care
fundamental theory of exponential smoothing
get from
give best shot
Gonābād
Hashimoto
hat packing
house swift
infection of newborn
INREQ (information requested)
internal cache
iridescent effect
ironed out
kufr
lea rotation
lithosite
louk
lytron
mid-systolic clicks
mixed tax
monopeptidyl
nephrotoxic glomerulonephritis
Newfs
non contracting party
numeroscop
Otto coke oven
overhaul check
page-boys
photomap
picking bowl
plexus inguinalis
Podocarpites
press photographer
psychosomatic dentistry
recirculating scrap
Restryl
rod joint
roussin's salt
running-mates
schlammfieber
scissura
sediment separator
simcock
skin-graft
speciala
spheroidizing medium
squares the circle
standard setup labor hours
stemmed from
Tally Position
tangential discharge
testificators
theraphosid
tillim
tormentable
transduce loss
transportation tanker
treyst
trusteeship system
typhas
untransformable
voltage-adjusting rheostat
water transfer printing
white fog