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
adiposities
Andernach
aspirating relay
average sale expectancy
average-calculating operation
bag hose
base RAM
Beaufort force
Belgian sheepdog
bright nebule
bromination reaction
cabinet working industry
cadmium-selenium photo-cell
cavilers
cellulae pneumaticae tubariae
Chiari-Frommel disease
ciechanover
coarsegrain
compressible material
confoundest
contouring control system
converted paper
cost-leaderships
crightons
current cost account
decuellar
deterioration
devil theory
dibenzoazepines
digital archive
digitaria sanguinaliss
ferdinand julius cohns
foil-type safety valve
folyl monoglutamate
genus Ephedra
gymnodornous
Hellespontic
hexose monophosphate oxidative pathway
horse-drawn mower
hot curing varnish
hydropults
illusional
individual ledger
indophenol dye
job master
kievans
kizzie
koldeway
leuciscus cephaluss
limiting wages increases
lindenwood
long-plays
Loxostomum
Lucao Township
lunet
mad doctor
material requisition
medium rales
meodymium oxide
militaria
moist adiabatic change
NED
Nicophin
no-load apparent power
nonhedged
object programs
one-piece hatch cover
one-sided lower continuous
Osse, R.
outer circling vacuum evaporator
over-range
overbarren
passeriform bird
peepee
pencil moustache
petrol hose
porphyrine
portable galvanometer
Precaval
pulled his leg
putaminaceus
quality of estate
reduplication murmur
repellet
resoune
salpingian
sand cushion
scatter interferometer
self-excitation low-frequency generator
smithe
star chemistry
top-discordance
track correlation
trueloves
Udinskiy Khrebet
unprocessable
vapulating
White R.
wide-angle converter
woolmington
yolane
zinc arsenate