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
ADATS
adiabatic saturation curve
adjustable blade pump
aftersale
anal canal
anglo-canadian
articulatio temporomandibulariss
Bacillus prodigiosus
begrain
Bredåker
brunei town (bandar seri begawan)
butter with a cooked flavour
cableknit
calefactive
cardinality of a fuzzy set
cause celebre
cerebral vomiting
chase-work
chemically bonded support
cherries
Chinese preserving melon
control of
current power generation
D-Flavanoids
design current velocity
devitalizing paste
Deyeuxia zangxiensis
dichloroacetyl chloride
disturbed value
dropping-fishing truck
electric focusing
electrovibratory massage
endosomal
fetter bone
fifth columnism
fire beetle
fixed charged rate
full mark
Glandulae preputiales
graeber
great-britain
HBN
heterodisulphide
high-voltage direct-current transmission (hvdc)
industrial-accountant
inner measure
instruction execution logic
iridium(iii) acetylacetonate
kopsiflorine
loimaa (loyma)
marlys
mattoirs
medium-pressure blowpipe
menhaden oil
Morse standard taper
Mujibur Rahman
multitrack pulse range
music work
mytilaria tenerrima (brid.) lind.
niggli's value
nonintellectual factor
not-too
open-hearth rolling furnace
operator's licence
pachyrhynchus sonani
pinole
PMAP
poupee
preedit
Rangitikei River
re-citation
re-instatement
regulating cock
residential economics
roisterkin
Sabinanigo
sad mood
Safar
scan lines
seismic seiche
slow pulse with irregular intervals
Soyka's plates
stacked-gate avalanche injection type MOS
start-off
swanhood
TB4
Tefe
transfrontal lateral ventricle approach
trunk plug
tryptachrome
Upper Devonian
use up something
USNAVEUR
variable-size item
vena portae hepatica
veterinary hygiene
volubilate
weak turbulence theory
wheel boring machine
Wittnau
word segmentation unit
Yinshi