时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:简单慢速英语阅读


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      He had a 9 p.m. flight. He hated to fly. A passenger plane is always crowded. It is always full. Passengers are jammed together. They are packed together. Side by side. Elbow to elbow. Front to back. Knees to butts 1. Five hours from California to New York. Five hours of people eating. Five hours of people drinking. Five hours of people burping. Five hours of people going to the bathroom. But first, he had to go through airport security. He hated airport security. Why do they call it airport security? They don't make him feel secure. They make him feel angry. They always take him aside. They always double-check him. Does he look like a terrorist? Does he look like a mad bomber 2? Maybe security has a machine that reads minds. That's it. They have a machine that can read his mind. The machine says, "Angry passenger. Make him angrier."



1 butts
笑柄( butt的名词复数 ); (武器或工具的)粗大的一端; 屁股; 烟蒂
  • The Nazis worked them over with gun butts. 纳粹分子用枪托毒打他们。
  • The house butts to a cemetery. 这所房子和墓地相连。
2 bomber
n.轰炸机,投弹手,投掷炸弹者
  • He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
  • Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。
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acid black 2r
age specific life table
AHMC
Aircop
akios
allowable stacking weight
antigen-reactive
antrostomies
as poor as a rat
autographa california
berning
boot-tag
cedriret
center of buoyancy curve
chemical dispersion plating
chemosensing
Child Tax Credit
Chuanwei
coelenterazine
coheritability
collophores
common shiner
congenital choledochus cyst
conveyor-belt
curved axis
daldry
demi-hearse
dental coupling
diallylacetic acid
digital read-out
disposable pallet
disposal on isolated islands
disquietingly
disrelated
double-breasted jackets
dwindlings
facility record
fiber spinning auxiliaries
first-class honours degrees
flatulence due to immoderate drinking
flicker sensation
frame synchronizing pulse
fund for major overhaul
giant silkworm moths
half-pipe
heliodiscus echiniscus
high-performance circuit
horsetrading
Ingersoll-Rand jumbo column
insensed
integrated veneer
jackdaw
jamka
jamling
jequiritin
kedabekite
kleywang
labour day
launch escape system
LOOP (loss of offsite power)
low-radiation monitor
lumped inductance
managerial revolution
mean fluctuation power
megalithic masonry
metalised
Myzostomidae
nephroyin
nerve-cells
non-public offering
ormonde
palp-like appendages
partially fixed-end beam
photo-electric
pool-film boiling
poudreuse
printer queue
protozoacidal
pseudo-pearlite
rhyothemis fuliginosa
ridge regression analysis
saki
sason
scatoscopy
scherfig
seamless drawn tube
sky-rocketed
smithsonian band
Smokey-the-Bear
snurposome
systematic approach in psychology
Temerin
three-electrode tube (triode)
transformation loss
trombes
Tupistra fimbriata
two-seat cabin
United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency
vacuum fusion chromatography
vena contracta tap
wine-makings
wynter