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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anelloni
backpedalling
balaenoptera borealiss
base of a topological space
basipodial
blowing my mind
body core
burgomastership
center rail
chromalloy
coaxial film bolometer
colen
college scholarship service
common columbine
condenser tester
contract area
corklike
crowdsensing
De Laval zinc process
deposit dose
didicoi, didicoy
Diels-Alder reaction
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EFV
elastic moduli
electronic controlled acoustic shadow system
erection reinforcement
ethylene dibromide
Eyri
Fellow of Chartered Accountants
file through
fluid sphere gyro
fluidized coating
Fork and Knife
frangulin a
full lips
Full Ratchet
Garth hill bed
get an edge over
gig-goers
gwydir
heat sensitivity
high fiving
IF (instruction fetch)
insufficient disclosure
insulating fibreboard
isamoltan
jinbuhuan Plaster
jumbo fiber
kamalas
ktu
latin quarters
leading screw lathe
leavenless
LOTTT
lutament
Maromokotro
maximum propulsive efficiency
micro-array
mid-eighties
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Myanma
naturer
navigation tunnel
non-linear Schrodinger equation
nonmalformed
nuclear neutron
nucleolus (bowman 1840)
obstruent
orobanchamine
palaeographer
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passenger transport income
piecewise linear system
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starting moment
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state-makings
stretton
sub-aggregate
submit competitive materials
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ultimate shearing strenngth
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write - in candidate
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