时间:2018-12-05 作者:英语课 分类:有声英语文学名著


英语课

The Ungrateful Crocodile




Once upon a time, a crocodile who lived in the Nile came out of the water and lost his way in the heart of the desert. He was dying 1 of exhaustion 2 and thirst.


Soon he saw an Arabian passing by with a camel. He said to the Arabian, “Will you please take me back to the Nile? In return I'll carry you to the other side of the river.”


When the Arabian heard this, he tied the crocodile onto the back of his camel, and carried him to the Nile.


In spite 3 of the crocodile's promise, when he was put on the ground at the bank of the river, he suddenly jumped at the Arabian and tried to bite him. But the Arabian quickly jumped aside.


Just then a fox happened to come along, and the Arabian said to the fox, “I saved this crocodile in the desert, but he tried to bite me.”


And the crocodile said, “He tied me firmly to the back of the camel, and I almost died.”


The fox heard both sides and said, “Now, let's try it again. I'll come along this time.”


Then, the Arabian tied the crocodile to the back of the camel once more and took him to the desert. As soon as they reached the desert, the Arabian left the crocodile in the middle of the desert, and went away.



1 dying
adj.垂死的,临终的
  • He was put in charge of the group by the dying leader.他被临终的领导人任命为集团负责人。
  • She was shown into a small room,where there was a dying man.她被领进了一间小屋子,那里有一个垂死的人。
2 exhaustion
n.耗尽枯竭,疲惫,筋疲力尽,竭尽,详尽无遗的论述
  • She slept the sleep of exhaustion.她因疲劳而酣睡。
  • His exhaustion was obvious when he fell asleep standing.他站着睡着了,显然是太累了。
3 spite
n.(用于短语)虽然,不顾,尽管
  • He has modern ideas in spite of his great age.尽管他年事很高,但思想观念却很入时。
  • In spite of his anger,his remarks were restrained.他尽管生气,说的话还是有节制的。
学英语单词
964
academic dishonesty
active context handle
adjoint simulation
AMTD (arithmetic mean temperature)
apron (plate) conveyer
balneum laconium
barn-stormeds
basal erosion
be decked with
bee keeping
buttress niche
cercospora ipomoeae
common-collector amplifer
comparator
consumer indifference curve
counter-pressure roller
crestfallen
dam type ladle
dentes columellaris
depositing-reworking current
designator storage word
desquamate
differential drain trap
discourages
dominant thirteenth
dongguan
double flow turbine
e-seminars
efferent nerves
ergo-chrysin
ethyl cycloheptane
fixed penumatic grain handling machine
flacked
forrard
garibaldite (sulfurite)
garrigou-lagrange
glamorizer
grand jet? dessus en tournant battu
hair cells
high class pavement
ho' bag
host language processor
hyperglobulinaemias
in circuit emulator
infinite term
interoceptive stimulus
irradiation tunnel
labor slowdown
laever controller
leidsepleins
let ... loose
littoral sediments
lunar zodiac
Mammutinae
Markovnikov
Minor Feast
Minter City
nightbreak
operational grade
oreophila
organochlorines
palaeoclimate
pansexuals
peckle
physical school map
positive news
postcranial
pot-metal glass
preconstitutional
preparative method
radar signal simulator
rate of perspiration
real value assets
ruivoes
running ornament
SDRT
Shipping Development Fund Committee
sociology of energy
soil capillarity
special code
spring generation of leaf beetle
stereocaulon vesuvianum kilimandscharoense
suberythema
subsoiling blade
superficies deficiency syndrome
sweat-shirts
teacher lecturer
telasco gaudiosa
terminal simulation
Torres Trench
triple condenser
two-line cavity
ulmarius
undauntoned
undershifting
uttleys
vaccinating transfusion
venae dorsales penis profunda
voltage atdischarge end
weatherwax
zymolase