时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2009年


英语课

Don Walling brought friends and family to the Brooklyn Bridge last Friday, so they could see him propose to the love of his life, Gina. What started as a real life fairytale moment quickly turned to horror, as you can clearly see on the Port Jeff Station man's face.


 


“I saw it fall and I heard it bounce and then I watched it fall through.” Yep, right after he popped the question, that perfect princess cut diamond ring fell out of the box and plummeted 1 to the street below. "


 


"He finally got your ring, and it fell off the Brooklyn Bridge. What do you have to say?" He stood up, he kissed me, then said "I love you. And I am glad you said yes. But I'm gonna go and get that. “Walling wasn't going to let anything stop him. Not even the cops. The 29-year-old climbed down the side of the bridge and ran with traffic just inches away. The police spotted 2 him in seconds and put him in the back of a patrol car until he told the story.


 


"They really didn't know what to do. I don't think they were ready for me to say that I was going after a ring. So they just, kind of, let me run after it.” “I could hardly see it.” And the proposal did end happily ever after, after all. Walling did retrieve 3 the ring and now has a story for the ages. "I had to get the ring back. Because it was a ring I picked up for her. And I want her to have it forever.” “He’s definitely my hero.”


 



1 plummeted
v.垂直落下,骤然跌落( plummet的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Share prices plummeted to an all-time low. 股票价格暴跌到历史最低点。
  • A plane plummeted to earth. 一架飞机一头栽向地面。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 spotted
adj.有斑点的,斑纹的,弄污了的
  • The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
  • Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
3 retrieve
vt.重新得到,收回;挽回,补救;检索
  • He was determined to retrieve his honor.他决心恢复名誉。
  • The men were trying to retrieve weapons left when the army abandoned the island.士兵们正试图找回军队从该岛撤退时留下的武器。
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Abraham's eye
acute nonsuppurative thyroiditis
adaptive differentail pulse code modulation(adpcm)
adianton
adjustment of inventory investment
among themselves
Anopheles costalis
at full blast
autocorrelation
benzoylacetic acid
biliary tree
birdseye maple
broadcast burning
calamen
Captain Cooker
cerores
ceruce
chaotic attractor
checkmates
compass corrector unit
continuous stripping still
correspondencies
cotton shirting
council on wage and price stability
displacement-length ratio
electrochemical reflection spectroscopy
ethyl guthion
expansion test
finish plan
flavius josephuss
flight-path selector
free rider effect
general policy conditions
governor switch
Gribingui
haloaryls
homoaxial
ice-climbs
inches per second
infaust
inner product of hypersphere
intercolumniated
interstinctive
jet advisory service
job losses
k-edge colorable graph
Kilkenny cats
leminoprazole
less breakage
longitudinal shaft
marrow oblong
mawkins
maximum molecular water-holding capacity
Mediterranean anemia
multiple spindle lathe
neoshamanism
non-determinate computation
NWSN
on the town
option-pricing
overhead crane with carrier-beam
paradoxids
Parkin
performances
peroxide-bleaching
physical geographical processes
plete
poppyseeds
Port twenty!
pronephric tubules
pseudometallophytes
psychic induction
Qihu
reagreeing
rearmost end
sandalwood trees
Sangjwa-ri
scare tactics
sideward roll
siege coin
slacken one's gait
smittinids
South Yellow Sea
southern Bright
stack air activity release
the equator
thermal structure
tilting viscometer
time about
tintin
tommy-gunner
two-sided alternative
up flue
UVF
voltage-controlled crystal oscill-lator
Voskresenovka
Waardenburg syndrome
weber-dimitri disease
white fingers
working electrolyte
YSIGA
zero-point energies