时间:2019-02-21 作者:英语课 分类:英语美文


英语课

   It was the end of my exhausting first day as a waitress in a busy New York restaurant. My cap had gone awry 1, my apron 2 was stained, my feet ached. The loaded trays I carried felt heavier and heavier. Weary and discouraged, I didn't seem able to do anything right. As I made out a complicated check for a family with several children who had changed their ice-cream order a dozen times, I was ready to quit.


  我在纽约一家繁忙餐馆做女招待的第一天就要结束了,我感到精疲力尽。我的帽子歪了,围裙上污迹斑斑,两脚疼痛难忍。盛着食物的托盘让我感觉越来越沉重。我又疲倦又沮丧,似乎什么事情都没能干好。有一个带着好几个小孩的人家,他们在要冰激凌时换来换去多达十几次,就在我为他们开好复杂和账单时,我准备辞职不干了。
  Then the father smiled at me as he handed me tip. "Well done," he said. "You've looked after us really well."这时,那位当父亲一边把小费递给我,一边对我微笑。“干得不错,”他说,“你对我们照顾得真周到。”
  Suddenly my tiredness vanished. I smiled back, and later, when the manager asked me how I'd liked my first day, I said, "Fine!" Those few words of praise had changed everything.
  顿时,我的倦意消失了。我对他也报以微笑。后来,经理问我第一天上班的感觉时,我说:“好极了!”那不多的几个赞美之辞改变了一切。

adj.扭曲的,错的
  • She was in a fury over a plan that had gone awry. 计划出了问题,她很愤怒。
  • Something has gone awry in our plans.我们的计划出差错了。
n.围裙;工作裙
  • We were waited on by a pretty girl in a pink apron.招待我们的是一位穿粉红色围裙的漂亮姑娘。
  • She stitched a pocket on the new apron.她在新围裙上缝上一只口袋。
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学英语单词
aborsement
acer pilosum maxim.
Adalate
adjustment cost
aesthetic appreciation of map
angle of back of tooth
appletalk - link access protocol
as reason was
aseptic package
automatic moving-target indicator
benchmarkers
biochemical reactor
biostrategy
blesome
blind tigers
Blue Angels
body pigment
brushmarks
cancel slow down and shutdown
ceridians
channel mode
climbing fibers
coal unloader
compressed air type sprayer
coronary suture (coronal suture)
currency policy
DC shunt generator
defaste
dentode
Distylium
double annular tuyere
effoliate
electric signal
escape death by a hairbreadth
fetchet
footes
fustiness
gemmer
give good returns
golongan
gotten out of repair
Guiscard
hair growth
Harkin's rule
hhok
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
hot hubbing
hyperdescent
hypochrome
hypopituitarisms
insulated static wire
inward-moving
Jindyworobak
Kuǔp
Mareb Shet'
marsellus
mental maladjustment
mireh
Molykote
multi-tube evaporator
multilist software
Namam-ni
nevadite
nomen oblitum
Nomersan
non-combustible materials
non-direction
organo chlorine insecticide
pathwayz
pre-emphasis circuit
QBP
rascalries
reclaim
red spiders
residual gas atom
rogin
rossetter
roughing down mill
ruffle someone's feathers
saltatoryreplication
Saxifraga saxatilis
scarin'
semi automatic seal
sick to death of
sod-off
soft-shoest
spiraperturate
SPL (sound pressure level)
sporocarps
steam supply valve
suche
superteachers
switch jumper
takamotoes
Terence Rattigan
tip-curved forceps
trailer type sprayer
Vogit loudspeaker
vulnerability assessment intrusion detector
wackyparse
win on points