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
able bodied
admi
Aethelred II
African meningitis
Anteby
anti-clockwise rotation
antidegradant
Asynchronous-design
atlantic white cedars
Audubon Society
bandsaw machine
be late in doing something
beat rate
bound layer
burn-off rate
calex
canvas roof
capitalized cost
cementopathia
clear screen command
Clostridium venturelli
coded diversity
color-picture tube
consummatory
CP violation parameter
cropshin
cryosar
crystal-forming polymer
defective fuel racks
economic immigrant
Endeavour Str.
ending wave
endohedrally
entoloma clypeatum
eremitisms
Eurasian badger
feed grains
flat printed coil
flow permeability
fresh food compartment
fruit-drying
GENbag
globus of the heel
grooved director
hair arrangement
helly's first theorem
high pressure expansion machine
Honeywell International Inc.
hypothesis loop
intelposts
inverted-channel shaped beam
izods
jstor
Leeuuwenhoek, Anton van
legitimate son
lever-propelled
lift-up method
looks across
Los Roques Trench
lungs
mariposite
mechanical fuel valve
membrane ultrafiltation
methylbutynol
motor generator arc welder
nine-to-five
niobium electrolytic capacitor
nondyslexics
nonresonant diffusion acceleration
obliviable
oil film light valve
organomercury
orographic low
pannini
Phasmidea
point plotter
polarizer-Kerr-cell combination
polyphon
prime rate of interest
protruding eye
pseudosection
railroad ticket
riveting-hammer
ronaldsway
sauteeds
screw-cutting lathe
seismic degree
soft-programming
solar year
strength of wood
tanned jute
tiuramyl
trough mixer
tunica propria of swim bladder
unobservedly
upper-gastrointestinal
v strand
Viola L.
Web control panel
wet salt
yellow cancer
zymotic diarrhea