时间:2018-12-06 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


英语课

Saturday morning meant one thing for Susan—doing the laundry. She hated doing the laundry. Unenthusiastically, she took the pillow cases off all the pillows. Then she removed the fitted sheet from the mattress 1. She took the towel off the towel bar in the bathroom.


She grabbed 2 a couple of dirty dish towels out of the kitchen, and looked all around her apartment for anything else that needed washing.


In the corner of her living room, a can of coins sat on top of the file cabinet. She fished out seven quarters. She opened the cabinet under her kitchen sink and grabbed a plastic bottle of liquid detergent 3.


Finally, she set her electronic timer for 35 minutes. The timer would remind her that the washing was done, and that it was time to go back downstairs and put the clothes into the dryer 4 for 40 minutes. Without the timer, Susan would completely forget to check her clothes.


Susan carried the laundry basket downstairs. How happy she would be when her laundry was done for this week. As she approached the laundry room, she heard a familiar sound. The sound was the washer washing and the dryer drying. One of her neighbors had got there before her. Muttering 5, Susan took her basket back upstairs.


 



1 mattress
n.床垫,床褥
  • The straw mattress needs to be aired.草垫子该晾一晾了。
  • The new mattress I bought sags in the middle.我买的新床垫中间陷了下去。
2 grabbed
v.抢先,抢占( grab的过去式和过去分词 );(尤指匆忙地)取;攫取;(尤指自私、贪婪地)捞取
  • He was grabbed by two men and frogmarched out of the hall. 他被两个男人紧抓双臂押出大厅。
  • She grabbed the child's hand and ran. 她抓住孩子的手就跑。
3 detergent
n.洗涤剂;adj.有洗净力的
  • He recommended a new detergent to me.他向我推荐一种新的洗涤剂。
  • This detergent can remove stubborn stains.这种去污剂能去除难洗的污渍。
4 dryer
n.干衣机,干燥剂
  • He bought a dryer yesterday.他昨天买了一台干燥机。
  • There is a washer and a dryer in the basement.地下室里有洗衣机和烘干机。
5 muttering
轻声低语,咕哝地抱怨( mutter的现在分词 )
  • He was muttering away to himself. 他不停地喃喃自语。
  • She was muttering to herself. 她不停地喃喃自语。
学英语单词
A word in your ear.
air space for roof insulation
al-sufi
American arrowroot
Appaachian relief
aquaemanalia
Arago's rotations
arborinone
binary file transfer
bioprovince
bound atom
candida taiwanensis
carbidechlorinatio
caryota ochlandra hance
Chikyu-misaki
confusion reflector.
consoler
continental cyclone
coordinated reflex
corn-tree
coughlan
Crio-sphinx
danhomean
dimension theorem
dull coat
elucubrations
exhaustive methylation (of amines)
exponential integral
fasten
field-pea plants
final sailing
flame cutting machine
full cone
galvanized iron spring
glabe artichoke
golden raisin
graphite pebbles
gustoso
half-moon hoe
higher-productivity
human language technology
hydrotropic
if one can help it
interactive communication
Kebbi, R.
Kipako
Klimovskaya
less-competitive
lifedraining
lose the toss
Lysholm type compressor
Mazus lanceifolius
method argument
Michaelis' stain
moon atlas
more tea, vicar
multi-engine pilot trainer
mutual loan syndicate
natural requeening
oesophagopathy
offset tool
OLED - organic light-emitting diode
oligotrophic peat
one time code
Osse, R.
phosphoenolpyruvate (pep)
PicaView
polytropic line
power of cardinal number
psycho-biography
put ideas in somebody's head
re-use
registering raingauge
reinforced shotcrete ring
retention policy
running safety
saddle support
salfamethyldiazine
screen-print
secretary birds
service log
shellam
shorter oar scull
Sinegorsk
Stauntonia leucantha
substructed
super-imposable
sweating rate
the whip
through bushing
tire pump
Tonkino
top spin
transcript on appeal
TRAP law
tuned array
typewriter font
ULRR
watermelon begonia
Weisserz
Wheeler Springs
white haze