时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:赖世雄中级美国英语


英语课

  Many people seek fame and wealth. Gul Muhammed sought neither. However, through fate he is famous. Heis so sort that he is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest man in the world. He measuresonly 57 centimeters. Though he has fame, he is not rich. In fact, he's too poor to pay his own medical bills.

Recently, when Gul became so ill that he had to be brought to the hospital, he didn't have enough moneyfor the medicine. What a pitiful man he is! His story tells us that fame and wealth do not always go hand inhand. Indeed, Gul is a living example of the saying, "All that glitters is not gold."


 

 


 


All that glitters is not gold. 部分否定

be as poor as a church mouse

widow 寡妇

seek = look for = be in search of

notorious = infamous 1 恶名昭张      be notorious for naughty

Don't bow(surrender) to fate. 不向命运低头      bowtie 蝴蝶结

stout 2 -- thick,black,bitter beer 黑啤酒    potbelly大肚皮

be poor at sth 很差    be good at

medical bill 医药费

foot the bill = pay the bill  付账 

When his father fell ill, Tom rushed home from work.

miserable 3 惨的   pitiful 可怜的      It's a pity/a shame/pitiful/too bad he can't come.  

living 活生生的    living dictionary





 



1 infamous
adj.声名狼藉的,臭名昭著的,邪恶的
  • He was infamous for his anti-feminist attitudes.他因反对女性主义而声名狼藉。
  • I was shocked by her infamous behaviour.她的无耻行径令我震惊。
2 stout
adj.强壮的,粗大的,结实的,勇猛的,矮胖的
  • He cut a stout stick to help him walk.他砍了一根结实的枝条用来拄着走路。
  • The stout old man waddled across the road.那肥胖的老人一跩一跩地穿过马路。
3 miserable
adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的
  • It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他,这是可耻的。
  • Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。
学英语单词
access permissions
air cooled valve
alternaria spinaciae allescher et noack
annular spinneret
apostilling
appropriation-in-aid system
ask ... for help
automatic linear positioning system
be infatuated with sb
begrimly
Belait Dist.
borrage
bullock's heart
bushwork
byte slice
carbolized culture-medium
carborundumpowder
carnassial teeth
channel
chetty
chromated nickel
Cladrastis parvifolia
clamp type end fitting
coded information
cost structure parity
cyder
Damascius
data flows
data wrap
Delmenhorst
diameter-draft ratio
effective debt
enlarge on/upon
equivalent structure transformation
etch cleaning
eulogized
Euonymus sanguineus
famular
flow-line technique
generalized spherical harmonic
generation nominal
geographical specialization
Graham alphanaphthol pyronin method
greensticks
half-truths
handals
head banging
high-load
hillard
hulas-hulas
in-core fission product inventory
increment investment
inflationist
innocently
jumping second whip
Kitros
kitul
labidometers
lamb curry
long-spined
macrocodes
MARKUS
mission critical
motorized
mud-cart
multiple-sintering
neurasthenic syndrome
Ngabé
no load diesel relay
oermann
Planting-row
pointed curve
preopticus
quantity price file
reading through
ready-contact
reciprocal difference quotient
rundel
scalograms
sector magnetic analyzer
self-glorious
shoichiro
shonda
silicate-cement filling
spelled sideways
spirostans
spores
Sugyo-ri
swivel stirrup
symmetrical demodulator
syntactic level
Tacca subflabellata
Taphrinaceae
temprano
thermal burn
thermomolecular vacuum ga(u)ge
touch-papers
value added by manufacture
vertical screw conveyer
wet-bulb pseudo-temperature
white livered
zone plate interferometer