时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:世界上最美丽的英文-人生短篇


英语课

  Genius at Work  天才在工作


    Henry Ford 1 didn’t always pay attention in school. One day ,he and a friend took a watch apart.  Angry and upset, the teacher told him both to stay after school. Their punishment was to stay until  they had fixed 2 the watch. But the teacher did not know young Ford’s genius. In ten minutes, this  mechanical wizard had repaired the watch and was on this way home..    Ford was always interested in how things worked. He once plugged up the spout 3 of a teapot and  placed it on the fire. Then he waited to see what would happen. The water boiled and, of course,  turned   to   steam.   Since   the   steam   had   no   way   to   escape,   the   teapot   exploded.   The   explosion  cracked a mirror and broke a window. The young inventor was badly scalded    Ford’s year of curiosity and tinkering paid off. He dreamed of a horseless carriage. When he  built one, the world of transportation was changed forever.    


 亨利.福特在学校里常常心不在焉。有一天,他和一个小朋友把一块手表拆开了。老师很  生气,让他们放学后留下来,把表修好才能回家。当时这位老师并不知道小福特的天才。只用了十分钟,这位机械奇才就把手表修好,走在回家的路上了。    福特对各种东西的工作原理总是很感兴趣。曾有一次,他把茶壶嘴用东西堵住,然后把茶  壶放在火炉上。他便站在一边等候着会出现什么情况。当然,水开后变成了水蒸气。因为水  蒸气无处逸出,茶壶便爆炸了,因而打碎了一面镜子和一扇窗户。这个小发明家也被严重地  烫伤了。    多年后,福特的好奇心和他的动手能力使他得到了回报。他曾经梦想着去制造一辆无马行  进的车。他造成了一辆这样的车后,运输界发生了永久性的变化。



1 Ford
n.浅滩,水浅可涉处;v.涉水,涉过
  • They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上,所以我们只能涉水过河。
  • If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪,必须极度小心。
2 fixed
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
3 spout
v.喷出,涌出;滔滔不绝地讲;n.喷管;水柱
  • Implication in folk wealth creativity and undertaking vigor spout.蕴藏于民间的财富创造力和创业活力喷涌而出。
  • This acts as a spout to drain off water during a rainstorm.在暴风雨季,这东西被用作喷管来排水。
学英语单词
.java
access denial
acknowledgers
acquiesces
ad extra
all wave oscillation
analogical, analogic
antivenomous
Averroism
ballistic temperature
banana plug
bancqwer
barding
becora
book bindings
book debt
border consumption tax
Broncaspin
burr millstone
caliber gage
cardinal tongue
chloasma gravidarum
closed circuit television set
cmtc
conformally flat space
coxitis fugax
DCaaS
edells
electrochemical reduction
expatiated
fire hole ring
fixed-mooring berth
free receptor
free-slip condition
Galways, galways
genus phthiruss
grain saving pan
ground inversion
hierarchical neural network
highway condition registration
Hope Mine
imf-led
inner ring road
insertion current
inside the box
iron group
Japan wax,Japan tallow
junction-box
kala azar
Kemmuna
lacbobacillus acidophilum
lifting technique
logging dam
low-water-training wall
lower one's voice
methylpotassium
mexinigger
MFOS
more salient
muckworms
multibank holding company
Mus decumamus
Nandlstadt
narcosed
physical page zero
Picea brachytyla var. complanata
pound per square foot
poundin' it
power planning application
primary X-ray beam
put someone into buttons
pyriform vesicle
quadruple effect evaporator
quantifiables
Rassypnaya
Red Sox
reference sources
rock-star
rockerarm
salignac
sbs (subsonic)
slap-up
snakenecks
Sparganum mansoni
splenomas or splenomata
submissive ly
sucking port
suspended refractory wall
table screen
tearing
telephone line data set
time level
tip insertion
torus water
troostitic structure
unmarked terminal
volgenau
wastes of money
wave energy rose diagram
weft straightener
william wymark jacobss
You could have knocked me him down with a feather.