时间:2019-02-22 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   She walked up to the drink machine. She fed it a dollar bill. She pushed the button for a cherry soda 1. The machine buzzed 2. Then it said, "We're so sorry. We cannot accept your money for this product. It has calories 3, and you are overweight. Please select a calorie-free product. We suggest you try a bottle of refreshing 4 spring water. That would be button number 4." She angrily pushed the button for a cherry soda again. The machine buzzed louder and longer. It said, "Perhaps you didn't understand. Please push the button for the language you speak." She pushed the Chinese button. The machine continued in English. "You cannot fool us. We know who you are. We are protecting you from yourself. Please select a calorie-free drink. After you've lost 25 pounds, you may push the cherry soda button up to twice a week." She kicked the machine hard—twice.



n.苏打水;汽水
  • She doesn't enjoy drinking chocolate soda.她不喜欢喝巧克力汽水。
  • I will freshen your drink with more soda and ice cubes.我给你的饮料重加一些苏打水和冰块。
v.发出嗡嗡声( buzz的过去式和过去分词 );(发出)充满兴奋的谈话声[闲话,谣言];忙乱,急行;用蜂鸣器(发信号)
  • Bees buzzed lazily among the flowers. 蜜蜂在花丛中懒洋洋地嗡嗡叫着。
  • He buzzed the rumour everywhere. 他到处散播谣言。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.大卡( calorie的名词复数 );千卡(食物所产生的能量单位);卡路里;卡(热量单位);卡路里,大卡路里( calory的名词复数 )
  • No sugar for me, thanks—I'm counting my calories . 我不要糖,谢谢。我在控制摄取的热量。
  • Her diet restricts her to 1500 calories a day. 她的规定饮食限制她每天摄入1500大卡热量。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.使精神振作的,使人清爽的,使人喜欢的
  • I find it'so refreshing to work with young people in this department.我发现和这一部门的青年一起工作令人精神振奋。
  • The water was cold and wonderfully refreshing.水很涼,特别解乏提神。
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agree on/upon
air puff blower
air-ground communication
angling strut bracket
apparent additional mass
asthmagenic
austad
automatic machining line
back orders
becastled
Beltian(series)
binomial surd
bukhava bukhovka
Cattell, James Mckeen
celluliferous
checkless banking system
chequered career
chirometer
clene
close relations
combined payoff
combined symbol
conspiratorial means
constant voltage device
control specimen
cycle, life
CYNAP
didymium ether
diving key
dog lever
Dr. J
electronic temperature limiter
englishwomen
environmental impact assessment (eia)
fore-haste
full-depth-tooth
gurgulation
Heydrich, Reinhard
highest administrative authority
hopper spreader
hundreder
indeterminate franchise
index wheel
inherited
jacquard drum
Kirkia
labourhood
lactoscopes
level map
Linasec
Linguatulidae
loose sails
lymphocytomatosis
mackensite
Mal.
Mangano-Astrophyllite
marginal probability density function
Master of Arts in Teaching
medagle
metapeptone
milil
mocyon
monitoring and warning desk
months-old
mother glass
motorborne
mythicist
nonhardening
not a marker to
Nuyts Arch.
optical flowmeter
outwoo
Paoting
paper tape control
periglacial
personal leave
phytyl
pink-lavender
pipe line filter
powder roll feed arrangement
proton accelerator
ring measure
sawter
scuff resistance
sheath of Schwann
shut off power
sliding pintle
slow-learning
speed seting segment
splenemphraxis
steel guitar
stick to one's colour
sunken
tabulation
tagline
Tebbett
terrus
Tonti, Henry de
voided bonds
waking take
work the land
zeoscope