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
-phyte
absorption inductor
acceptable level of reliability
additional dynamic load
adrenoleukodystrophy
aluminum shower
an accessory after the fact
analog translator
balance weight retaining wall
big shot
broad crest weir
bung stave
chirognostic
cholestadienols
clockwise-polarized wave
committee for privileges
common obligation
comper
computer errors
condo-hotel
detonation intensity
dewatering efficiency
Down in the Valley
drop the bomb
drowned river
economic formation
economic resistance of heat transfer
Ehrenhaft effect
ethyl rubber
Federal Reports' Act
first permanent structural concrete
flow-visualization
Franz Werfel
full-size
gas ga(u)ge
ghost ride
giovannonis
glickstein
glikman
gold cure
gully erosion (gullying)
hepatopancreata
hmming
horizontal component of electric field
hysteresis loop displaying equipment
ignition device
isothermal gas chromatography
jacconette
latibulate
lawfull
lehoux
limping
linear logarithmic amplifier
Little D
lobus flocculonodularis
manjiroite
meliola malacotricha
mohai
moral density
Move The Previous Question
murmur at
Nelidovo
neutral violet
niets
normal steel
nutmeg-apple
okland
opinion-poll
oxidizer loading system
Peking robin
penydarrens
Polcirkeln
protracted treatment
radio setting apparatus
railway timetable
raw-flesh
requisition number
rutledges
scofidio
seam jig
set the world to right
sex-blind
shotman
shrunk-and-peened flange
significant test
Sobral Peninsula
spiny-leafed
standard labour costs
station entrance-exit
structural-functional analysis
sugyner
suppurantia
taraxol
temporary cold stupor
twisted union yarn
upper ball cover
view of nature
view'd
written out program
zero-power-factor characteristic
zymodemes