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
accrued liabilities
action decided against sb.
adequacy of disclosure in financial statement
adrenal cortical tissue
adverbialists
airport taxiway
albinoisms
ambisexual development
amelodentinal border
antitravel
apo-fenchene
astound
audax
auther
Aït Aïssa, Oued
baron listers
Berenbostel
blippier
block supply
broad bow
buffettings
burnished bolt
bush-shrike
buying spree
cellaring
coelestin
confiscable
corpsman
corrective multiplier
correspondances
Digambara
disowning
do not care a stiver
electric button
entering momentum
eurrhynchium albuscula broth
exfoliation boulder
expectation for demand
external sort
ferrostrunzite
ferruginous kaolin
flatwounds
fluidized bed drying
foiba
freight forwarding
gailliard
gondwana block
half-pulse-repetition-rate delay
Hedychium menghaiense
hydrographic survey
hyperglycaemia
interpolated map
jellie
jetomic
knitch
lobi limbicus
mayhappen
mihok
muffle lehr
music schools
nansel
nolleity
Nostocales
nut shaping machine
nutating feed
open cassion
outcounts
outlook for crop
pace making
pay rate per hour
pentahelicenes
pin-wheel
prairie trilliums
preliminaries'
pressure dissipator
pressure measuring set
principality
problem mode
Proctocort
rapid inversion method
real-time central processor
rocker pivot
rootrots
rubbie
scarabeid
slip ring assembly
spirally grooved tube
stocked up
tabloid television
Taricha
Tausug
the study on
the tour
This is a complicated problem
toeout
too rich for my blood
translation parameters
trawnter
tulkas
Veltheim
vertical tail volume coefficient
vivus