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。
学英语单词
-vore
0411
aircraft powerplant
alienation of affection(s)
argument field
ass pull
assortest
bent course
blocking oscillator transformator
burn-out monsoon
Cartesian devils
catalytic reforming unit
Cinchona calisaya
clockwork-anemometer
collateral material
convergent photograph
CSSF
dashee
differential screw mechanism
direct retainer
distortion of field
dog tooth bond
don't need
Dos Hermanas Is.
eight center ellipse
eisners
elastic mass
elenchize
examinership
exsected
facial-contracted wire rope
Fellowship of Reconciliation
flagmen
folkhouse
Freneau, Philip (Morin)
Friedrichsthal
front jockey wheel
full gloss
furnace (carbon) black
gadolinium oxychloride
genus hexanchuss
Gericke
glass-cutter
gradual reform
Guatemalan monetary unit
gzr
heliox
hit the target
inclusion monotonic
indirect-transmission
jail-birds
joely
jointuresses
lemon mints
Leopard can't change its spots
Lissac-et-Mouret
LNA
LWYS
Mahleraan
main-gear retracted
map editing
meta isomeride
metaphilosophically
Misrnylon
monofilar mode
multicolour holography
multiplicity of pole
mylar-faced acoustical tile
non-linear isotherm
oil seal lip
operationalising
ornify
over-coats
pair of hands
Piloptic
profit on exchange
pseudocinchonine
psoriasis discoidea
pudeur
qi desertion due to blood depletion
redology
repayabler
Rindertalg
Rio de Onor
saddle soaps
sand producing formation
Schiffrin-Baehr disease
self-organization mapping
shifting coupling
tarmacadam road
telescoping
terebinthone
top-end computer
total darknesses
triformin
undertook
unducted
Union Pacific Railroad Company
unique and superior product
upscales
vedadoes
wiselike