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
6-glucosidase
air-conditioning pump
angle bender
antiparkinsons
assembl? battu
banker's authority
bare subsistence
Basildon
battles of plataea
Benioff zones
call loan
chain defect
change-out
cheese it
cock-bawd
company spy
cupule
cycadophyte
dead reckonings
demigrations
Dibromodifluoroethane
differentiated reticulosarcoma
DPWS
electronic specific heat
energy release rate
euclid's elements
fluttery
freidel
frictional behavior
FTM (frequency time modulation)
fused caustic
gay-straight
gcc-box
genus Giardia
get wise on
greaseless valve
gross purchases
ground-bass
h(a)emacytometry
Hangay
hydraulic pipe bender
illmitzs
indophenol-oxidase
intersected country
knee pipe
Kunikida Doppo
lampyrids
level terrace
Loan Modification
look out angle
lumenmeter
maintenance and repair cost
mantleman
means-end analysis
moscow' typhisuis
multiple compartments
Namuli, Mt.
Neocathaysian structural system
nonsense code
o'neal
on one's own admission
orbit analysis
Osmunda regalis
pall-dry
panzhihuaensis
per-minute
pilot studies
pituitary stalk
pollucites
presentment for acceptance
Proximate analysis,
reanimatology
retainer oil seal groove
road-test
rope-yard
rustproof dipper
scaningelectronmicroscope
Schwartze's sign
seacondition
secure communication
simultaneous difference equations
soloship
stand by to toss
stasimon
stationary storage battery
strangless
stress derating
subsurface waterlogging
Sulcus nervi spinalis
sweater dresses
Taenia cucurbitum
take a dim view of something
take by storm
thermoelectromotive
thyroliberin
tip potential
university campus
very thick platy aggregate
vibratory feeder
waipio
z-steel