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
accumulative margin state frequency
advisory funds
afforest
alk
alphameric display device
Altrincham
asynchronous speed
autooscillation in servosystems
bill without credit
biosone
Bitenc
bloodheart
book sales
Brauerschwend
bubble memory chip
calculated crime
Carex baimaensis
charge composition age
Cladiribine
crepe flowers
cruddled
custom-make
cyanoehtylated wood
dead front
debateth
derailing switch point
dig ... out
document term matrix
dwelth
easy language
eight-ouncest
extrapulmonary oxygenation
Figeac
figure-of-speech
frequency telemetering
Gingivit
gray desert soil
hand blown process
hand-control
hizzy
homolyzes
imperfect international personality
incl.
ingrose
injectiion
irrelated
isobaric spin
James-Lange theory(of emotion)
kptoon
Lappula karelinii
length-width ratio
low aside
low hydrogen type covered electrode
maltzman
mango roll
master apparatus
MFU
microanalysis for fracture
minority business
morselized
moving iron relay
multiman space vehicle
Myorelax
negative confirmation
Neocalamine
newsagent
nous
ofoegbu
one-level method
overcapitalizations
periodical moistening
permissive condition
pithecanthropoid
popliteal plane
precornu
principali
program-controlling element
pulshe
reseizing
scenic spot of minority customs
schmoozer
sea pigeon
sea surface wind
seabeach scenic spot
Shannon index
smokeless burner
squiffing
starle
strain phase error
sub-harmonic
subtilly
Svetislav
switch springs
Talegalla
target predicted position
thickening device
tracheal lymph duct
transitional movement
trumbone
wall panel
Wells-next-the-Sea
zaandam