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
a digit switch
active citizen
adjutant generals
advocates-general
Andropogon furcatus
arc potential
armstrong-whitworth
artificial transformation
average outlay
bank nominee
block copolycarbonate
callosity
carbon piece
clothes horses
commusalism
compound control action
cristl
defilippis
dehumanizers
demissly
dense magnesia sinter
down faulted block
downaging
drainage plug
drive chain case
embryoma of kidney
epibromohydrins
equisignal glide path
evolutionary conservatism
femismo
first carriage
foot hanger
glee'annon
going round
ground-bird
hard-to-sell
Hollywood Park
hydride transfer
HyperTerminal
Iberet
imaging infrared system
Inchcolm
Innocent VIII
International Colour System
Kwaksan-gun
Laius
leucic
lift-arena
localization energy
localized tetanus
main electrical scheme
Mangano-orthite
master pedestal level
meat separation
Mees's stripes
Menton
metric thread pitch
mikhailichenkoes
napalm
Neptunian
nonaccelerated
odd-mass nucleus
order euphausiaceas
paralytic squint
pea grit
picosecond laser
Pirgovo
platinum resistance thermometre
plerome,plerom
porteshams
price ratio scissors
primary bundle
pseudophloem
pulling up
Radcliffian
radioimmunoassays
referentially
round gunwale
samarium gallium garnet
scale-out storage
scarlet musk flowers
Segama, Sungai
selective rejection command
set-reset flip flop
sheep-foot tamper
single-component plasma
stratigraphic profile
stress(mechanical)
strontium secondary phosphate
stuhlman
super cryogenic temperature preforming
sverdlovsks
transfat
vaso-inhibitor
vasorrhaphy
video blogging
wake speed
wave-vector space
white vitriol
without fear or favour
yardbird
zepa