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
amphidiploid hybrid
annealing color
asthenic form
asura tricolor
Bothriocephalus latus
branling
by-pass capacitor
Calaceite
Caltraghlea
Casas de los Pinos
Cedar Breaks National Monument
chronic yellow atrophy of liver
cleuch
coarse azimuth
coefficient of rolling friction
collimating cone
collision threat assessment system
colubriferous
complementary events
comunales
constitutive substance
convexifies
crm (count rate meter)
crude iron
crypto-anarchists
cyber espionage
direct production cost
double overhead wide belt sander
ductility transition
electric dipole radiation
embedded lump
error probability classification
etrange
extra classes
fibre needle
field intensity curve
flush system buffer
free speed
fungicidal finish
herborist
Herculanean
homeschoolers
i-tend
implicit schemes
inclinatio Pelvis
insertest
inside broker
isochratic
JRT
jungfraujoch
Khodyashevo
kommunalka
long-continued questioning
marcour
mars pigment
masseteric cutaneous ligament
minidomes
mirada
Nanam
night-vision
Norte, Pta.
nutrigenetics
octlet
orbicularity
outer orbital configuration
Oxford-Groupel
painting on a bamboo curtain
peace marcher
pellucistoma magnolioidea
platform shoe
point-device,point-devise
problemists
prolixness
promoteability
rattail radish
Reophax
riordon
roundspeople
Runsten
safety instrument
salt sedative
saluside
self-consequence
semibituminous coal
slender loriss
sliding poise
sodium penicillin K
special purpose radar set
sponge out
sporterized
sufficient light
suspect ... of
taglia
three-boom drift-jumbo
tituled
tri-pronged-type universal joint
two bin inventory system
up-side-down
vijayas
Whitekirk
won't kill you him
zounds