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
accelerated dynode system
Aeropyrum
air cylinder
amzallags
analogicalness
Bagnoregio
bartols
bastianich
Benedict-Hitchcock's method
bottom arm
bridesmaiding
bright tips
burrows-wheeler transform
cement gland
chalk-pit
chiricahua pk.
cluster gear
collision injury
coolie jacket
critical subsonic
deliver oneself to
desaturated
diegeses
dinello
disingenuousnesses
distoleon littoralis
divided country
dreydle
electric auxiliary machinery
Estracyte
field-marshals
fixed step size
flued opening
gaffed off
GLGH
goofer
gravity direction
gunbearers
Habenaria stenopetala
heideggers
hogle
ibid.ibiden
IHTR
ilya ilyich mechnikov
invirility
joystick transformer
kinetosome
king-sized
lacertids
Larisa
laying it out
licence of import
local rating
logomancies
middle error
mode size
monosynaptic
morning tents
musculus dilataor
naval bronze
nonunit
park woodland
photoactinic action
physico-chemical process
pickup plow
pomading
pressure roller
processor history register
reactivation line
reappraisal of fixed assets
rectangular-coordinates
roll-off
Scillacryst
set foot in
short-range nuclear force
sideroleukocyte
signal wiring diagram
single-photon detectors
skeletonizes
smsas-s
solution of inequality
spark plugs
spatial coordinates
spray starching machine
St-Agnan
stripping reaction
temporary parking
tension support
the promised lands
Theravada
throw a sprat to catch a whale
toilet papers
toner low
trade cycles
turbo driven compressor
voices off
wa-wa pedal
wash and wear style
wind-holds
xanthoxin
yolk sacs