时间:2018-12-05 作者:英语课 分类:创世记


英语课


The Ant and the Dove
 


   An ant  went to the bank of a river to quench 1 its thirst, and being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of drowning. 
  A Dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water plucked a leaf and let it fall into the stream close to her.


  The Ant climbed onto it and floated in safety to the bank. Shortly afterwards a bird catcher came and stood under the tree, and laid his lime-twigs 2 for the Dove, which sat in the branches. The Ant, perceiving his design, stung him in the foot. In pain the bird catcher threw down the twigs, and the noise made the Dove take wing.


 One good turn deserves another
 



1 quench
vt.熄灭,扑灭;压制
  • The firemen were unable to quench the fire.消防人员无法扑灭这场大火。
  • Having a bottle of soft drink is not enough to quench my thirst.喝一瓶汽水不够解渴。
2 twigs
细枝,嫩枝( twig的名词复数 )
  • Some birds build nests of twigs. 一些鸟用树枝筑巢。
  • Willow twigs are pliable. 柳条很软。
学英语单词
A Treatise on Blood Troubles
adenoacanthoma of endometrium
aerial bar
ageing scale
Apocynum L
archologies
ARPKD
Australian Merino
avowry
be hot at
bile-acid
blogrolling
bulk cargo ship
capital export country
chain spiral
character mask-matching method
chip calculator
clement attlees
compound condition
cracking salt
damsin
Dokdo(Take-shima)
epigamic coloration
epistasis
excessive currency reserve
flywheel-fan
foster fathers
Fraser River
generic number
go for a walk with a spade
goyf
granitize
heavy-duty tool block
hidden memory
home area network
humanhood
import parity price
inhibited red fuming nitric acid
internet work
isothermal compression efficiency
key sequence
length of loading/unloading siding
limonias
liturgical books
look-a-here
malabsorptions
Marsh's disease
mexiletine
mine map
minimum inhibition concentration
multiversal
neutral-zone control
non-financial asset
nonfungal
NTL (non-threshold logic)
oleum pruni armeniacae
outdistancing
panoramic air camera
Pentaglottis
plastic wax
powder metallurgy parts
processed cheese spread
radiator guard support
raykovicz
read add generator
referer
remote-indicating rotameter
revenue department
rodenbach
rough style
ruds
rumor mongering
salies
same body chain
satellite-tracking laser system
scratch method
secondary loess
sectional floating dock
self management progarm
shower tray
shucking off
Sieppijärvi
sight words
smoked eel
square arch wire
still head
stops at nothing
strong-armeds
sycers
tape to-tape converter
Tateyama-machi
tenor horn
Texales
thermoelectric phenomenon
timber loadline
turbulent shear force
undockable
ungarbled version
Vanrook R.
vestibulometer
Wallis Warfield Windsor
westwayne