时间:2019-02-22 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   He dropped his glasses on the bathroom floor. They didn't break. They looked okay. A few days later, his right ear started hurting. He took off his glasses. The pain stopped. He put the glasses back on. The pain came back. He went to an eyeglass store. He told the worker his problem. She adjusted 1 the plastic temple for him. He put the glasses on. They felt okay. An hour later, his ear hurt again. The adjustment hadn't worked. He went to another eyeglass store. The worker adjusted his glasses. That adjustment didn't work either. His ear was killing 2 him. He took his glasses off every ten minutes to get relief. At home one day, he boiled some water. He put the temple into the water. He bent 3 the temple himself. He tried on the glasses. They felt okay. The next day, they still felt okay. His ear stopped hurting.



adj.调整过的v.(改变…以)适应,调整,校正( adjust的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The straps can be adjusted to suit the wearer. 这些背带可进行调整以适合使用者。
  • The high school adjusted its teaching approach and cancelled its departmental system. 他们高中调整了教学方法,取消了“文理分科”。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
n.爱好,癖好;adj.弯的;决心的,一心的
  • He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
  • We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。
学英语单词
aglint
Alfonso IX
alizarin yellow R
anodic depolarizing wave
antenna array factor
artillery director
attilio
babbit alloy
bamboo bolt
Bebedero, Salina de
blank fixe
blogshop
Bonapartism
brain-work
bromation
brown paradox
cape-gege (3ft.6in)
carbon copy invisible
cellulose caproate
character locator
clean hole punching
co-emperor
composite merchandise index number
continental glacial cover
Cryptocarya yaanica
decorated ware
denuded land
dial hygrometer
ectocingulid
Endingen
enzyme treatment
flat steps
gamal nasser
Good Housekeeping
GT (gas turbine)
hawaiian type(volcano)
hitcht
hyperbolic
hyperhomocyst(e)inemia
hypha(pl. hyphae)
immunosort
in the dock
Indian River City
intersegmentalias
lappet fabric
lift transporter
loan repayments from abroad
manganbabingtonite
Market Exposure
martial musics
millful
missionarize
monopoly and merger commission
Morney
mounting bolt hole
Mourvedre
multi-protocol
neurofibrosarcomata
O-acetylhomoserine
occipital protuberance
oceanic fouling forecast
ocular ultrasonography
oil transfer vessel
on-line crypto-operation
pace up and down
paralysis tick
peaked noise
plunger cros pin
pole scaffolds
postobservation
Posušje
praseolite (prasiolite)
Presuren
pretuberculous
prolonged lochiorrhea
pubgoer
Pyrrhonian
radially split casing pump
raviolini
red neck
reheating and regenerative cycle
retention quota of export earnings
Revesby
rightangle
senois
sialidosis
social networks
stallioner
takeoff mass
toppins
torsional fault
torsionally stiff clutch
uninherited
unwholesome demand
vorota
where did you get that idea?
willowy
winter-cress
wire fate items
yornyman
Zam-buk
znamenn?y chant