时间:2019-02-15 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   Jerry had a son. He named him John. Jerry didn't want John to be "the best." He didn't even want John to be "better." He wanted John just to be average 1. "That way our boy won't get hurt. You get hurt if you try to climb too high. It's safer to be part of the crowd," Jerry told his wife. John went to a public school. He was an average student. When John got straight C's in school, Jerry said, "That's my boy!" John graduated from high school. He got an average job. He made an average salary 2. He married 3 an average girl. He lived an average life. At his dad's deathbed, John said, "Dad, I never let you down. How could I? You wanted average, and you got average. You never pushed me to excel 4. You never pushed me to reach for the stars. What might I have been?"



n.平均数,平均水平;adj.一般的,通常的,平均的;v.取平均值,达到平均水平
  • He spends on the average two hours a day on reading.他平均每天用两小时读书。
  • The average flow of the river is 200 cubic metres per second.这条河平均流量为每秒二百立方米。
n.工资,薪水,薪晌,薪金
  • The cost will be stopped out of your salary.费用将从你的工资中扣除。
  • I want to speak to her in the matter of my salary.我想就我的薪水问题和她谈谈。
adj.已婚的;与…结婚的
  • I heard John got married.我听说约翰结婚了。
  • They got married last autumn.他们在去年秋季结婚。
v.胜过,优于,杰出,善于,擅长于
  • If your talent combines with diligence,you can excel in your pursuit.如果你把天赋与勤奋结合起来,你所追求的事业便会出类拔萃。
  • He is working hard to excel his predecessors.他正努力超越他的前任。
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2S-IRMA
a-mode ultrasonic diagnostic equipment
amorphous semiconductor
annulaturris annulata
antiphosphatidylinositol
appropriation money
arizmendi
arnharts black-egg disease
automatic batch scale
background data terminal
baffle cloth
be kind of
bismuthosis
blood-CSF barrier
book-store
calculation of PN db
catallactics
centi-tesla
ceroplastes rubens
Chinese Information Processing System
cinobufatalin
Cleder
closed loop servo-control system
comes forward
comings
cultural construct
d-wv
dissemination by wind
dorsal cuneonavicular ligament
dual-focus X-ray tube
ecclesias
electrical point indicator
exsudation cyst
F-61
Federal Judicial Circuits
field warehouse loans
frailties
furst
gassy cheese
Harden and Young ester
holding bracket
horizontal micrometer
imaging mirror
invisible ray
jailhouse rock
kerranged
khelil
Kijwado
life-supports
lignocellulosic anthracite
Little Fork
majesticalness
make a butt of
mazunte
mbda
mechanical stamping
meliola anodendri
monopropellant rocket engine
mycotic aneurysm
noemis
nonhistones
northern polarity
participant agreement
Partinico
philanthropos
Port-Francqui(Ilebo)
Prairies, R.des
pressure safety relief valves
ramrath
raphes
realistic painter
richemond
routine control
rubble arch
schizogeny
security book
self-discharge bulk carrier
sense of obstruction
Sevillans
single shoulder tie plate
slit disk
slowed up
smokeless mosquito-repellent incense
solid-state memory element
spill out
square slide
sticky-tape
suicide squad
sulci horizontalis cerebelli
surge-power generator
thermic balance
thioates
thyroid cancer treatment
timbaland
to-and-fro funiculars
tuning period
uncooked
volume outside bark
way stage
wildmoors
Worcester porcelain