时间:2018-12-05 作者:英语课 分类:创世记


英语课


Belling the Cat
 
  Long ago, the mice had a general council to consider what measures they could take to outwit their common enemy, the Cat. Some said this, and some said that; but at last a young mouse got up and said he had a proposal to make, which he thought would meet the case. 
  "You will all agree," said he, "that our chief danger consists in the sly and treacherous 1 manner in which the enemy approaches us. Now, if we could receive some signal of her approach, we could easily escape from her. I venture, therefore, to propose that a small bell be procured 2, and attached by a ribbon round the neck of the Cat. By this means we should always know when she was about, and could easily retire while she was in the neighborhoods."


  This proposal met with general applause, until an old mouse got up and said: "That is all very well, but who is to bell the Cat?" The mice looked at one another and nobody spoke 3. Then the old mouse said:


   "It is easy to propose impossible remedies."  



1 treacherous
adj.不可靠的,有暗藏的危险的;adj.背叛的,背信弃义的
  • The surface water made the road treacherous for drivers.路面的积水对驾车者构成危险。
  • The frozen snow was treacherous to walk on.在冻雪上行走有潜在危险。
2 procured
v.(努力)取得, (设法)获得( procure的过去式和过去分词 );拉皮条
  • These cars are to be procured through open tender. 这些汽车要用公开招标的办法购买。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • A friend procured a position in the bank for my big brother. 一位朋友为我哥哥谋得了一个银行的职位。 来自《用法词典》
3 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
学英语单词
adinandra glischroloma hand-mazz.
ajiji
allowance account
anticoal
atomic polarizability
augmentings
autopsychorhythmia
binomial trials model
block-type thermal power stations
boldne
boot manager
brahmina shibatai
bryophytes
bucculatricid
butts on
bystrzyca r.
camera-original
cervix cornu
chronic oxygen poisoning
class-rank
cocycle basis mapping
collision-avoidance radar
communication director
coral-root bittercress
cressie
critical detection
cyclodextrinase
cyclopentenylallylbarbituric acid
declar
demoscene
diacetyl-neuraminosyl-lactone
Diodoquine
distempered
Djéroual
efflation
electromagnetic receptor
Es layer
exaltress
family delphinidaes
foil mica
forbehest
FSTBFT
Gombelo
gradient of gravity
hemohistioblastic syndrome
hold of the wrong end of the stick
homopycnal flow
hot-patching
hyperbolists
Inari
inh.
intergovernmental governance
Interpeduncularis
jauping
Jodum
Katshi
light-red silver ore
limiting number
locked-in charge
manganese(ii) hydrogen arsenate
manipulation of stock exchange
measurement of loss angle
metamorphic rank
method of reduction of dimensions
methodology of terminology
multierror
national agency
Nernstian potential
nodding out
nonvegetable
northern sucker
offset shooting
operation irregularity
paraldehydes
phasphodiesterase
pollina
pontocythere subtriangulata
primary addisonism
protecter
purchasing decision
qualified teachers
rackee
radial tyres
requote
saltsplitting
scabless
semisimple Lie algebra
setting-up exercise
spectral domain
Strobilanthes siamensis
sugas
technical control desk
tets
the flu
tin(ii) chloride
tower superstructure
traveling-wave tube
trowelling machine
unquantifiability
Vertentes, R.das
written down
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