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
American bugbane
antileptic
antitransmit-receive switch
Balikpapan
barred right
be immersed in
be slow on one's pins
beardiest
big-salaries
blowby
buildingup
Burkardroth
by mischance
Chromagyne
civilized city
co-extruded process
combine steam and gas turbine
consonantalize
covering agent
cross off an account
cryptotaeniae
crystalline laser
developmental potential gradient
dipylidium disease
direct drive scanning direct excitation
dry-type self cooled transformer
education and training
facies dorsalis (antibrachii)
foreshadowed
geometric decorated style
giltheads
GNBLFY
green-stain
health bar
heterocarpus laevigatus
hleg
Holland gin
hydraulic boring
inboard opening
inspirer
Kizlyarskiy Zaliv
lactalbumin
language-processing
Languas galanga
large needle
launderette
leg length discrepancy
limonins
Lloyd's Form of Average Bond
luminescent pumping source
lunaticness
m-iodotoluene
Medvin
metirosine
mongrelized
negligence rule
neoshoes
nip sth in the bud
non-vitreous
orbiculari reaction
pasztor
Plougonver
poulsen arc generator
pray ... to do
precoordinate index
prediction error model
psaer
Purdy's Fluid
rate-of-turn
Ringgold County
sea fennel
sectorings
semi-enclosed motor
Setaria yunnanensis
shipbuilding industry
single thickness window glass
soft decision decoding
solitary renal cyst
sonnetlike
spaceworthy
stability-control
statement parameter
stormclouds
superdatabases
syvas
tabascos
tacb
thallium dithionate
Tinerhir
toggle grid
trailer label
underdanced
undernutritions
uneven stitch length
Urartu
us den
virtual desktops
volcanic clay
wash the windows
yamni
yellow oaks
yellowtail amberjacks