时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


英语课

Mitchell continued his search for the dry milk. He found it next to the imported tea, and then walked quickly to the checkout 1 counter. He hoped that he could check out fast, because if that woman finished her shopping and then stood in line behind him, he would simply walk out of the store without buying anything. The checker slowly rang up his bill, took Mitchell’s money, and gave him his change. It was 11 p.m. Mitchell did not look around as he walked out of the supermarket. He wondered if he would ever get that woman’s face out of his mind.


When he got into his car, he felt ashamed of himself. That poor woman, he thought. She probably never ventured out in the daytime. She probably did everything she could to avoid people. That was truly a face that even a mother might not love. She must feel so lonely. How could God let that happen to people, Mitchell wondered.


Long ago, there were colonies for outcasts. Lepers, for example, lived in leper colonies, where they had social contact with their peers 2. But there are no “wart 3 colonies” for people covered with facial warts 4. They have to exist with “normal” people.


“She should try duct tape,” suggested a coworker of Mitchell's the next day. “I saw them demonstrate it on TV. You just stick it on the wart for 48 hours, and your wart disappears!”


 



1 checkout
n.(超市等)收银台,付款处
  • Could you pay at the checkout.你能在结帐处付款吗。
  • A man was wheeling his shopping trolley to the checkout.一个男人正推着购物车向付款台走去。
2 peers
n.同等的人,贵族vi.凝视,窥视vt.与…同等,封为贵族v.凝视( peer的第三人称单数 );盯着看;同等;比得上
  • She enjoys the respect of her peers. 她受到同侪的尊敬。
  • She peers into my eyes. 她盯着我的眼睛。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 wart
n.疣,肉赘;瑕疵
  • What does the medicaments with remedial acuteness wet best wart have?治疗尖锐湿疣最好的药物有什么?
  • Flat wart is generally superficial,or sometimes a slight itching.扁平疣一般是不痛不痒的,或偶有轻微痒感。
4 warts
n.疣( wart的名词复数 );肉赘;树瘤;缺点
  • You agreed to marry me, warts and all! 是你同意和我结婚的,我又没掩饰缺陷。 来自辞典例句
  • Talk about trying to cure warts with spunk-water such a blame fool way as that! 用那样糊涂蛋的方法还谈什么仙水治疣子! 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
学英语单词
2-ethylhexyl peroxi-dicabonate
a one horse town
a-ketoacetic acid
above-stairs
abreak
acceptable conditions
air vented tumble dryer
altitude difference
Ave, R.
averse
Avogadro, count Amedeo
barrier film rectifier
ben
bias control circuit
bidirectional drive
bostrychid
ceasefires
Chebyshev polynomial of the second kind
Chechen', Ostrov
Christianization
control and dispaly unit
criticizable
dinarthrum taiwanense
discharge electrode
dp's
dust collecting plant
eileen chang
exchange words
expenditure for military establishment
Fiesta Bowl
focis
fused salt medium
FWD & REW reel stop detector
garage-sale
geniohyoids
genus Nauclea
hauns
heurn
hirdum-dirdum
homokaryons
Hueter's maneuver
hyperchrome
impulse functions
in animal body
intasuchids
interior focusing lens
isabelles
Isocarboxazide
iustices
Judaeo-Spanish
juglandifolia
katalase
kentishes
liquid cladding
marble intarsia
mechanical ground support equipment
miethe
money position
mousselines de soie
multi-mission underwater remotely operated vehicle
multiplier time division modulation
naevi of the nail matrix and bed
network of workstations
orange-wood stick
oryctocoenose
planet-striking
post-ictal
preliminary enquiry
prides of california
pseudohistory
psychojargon
puangs
read verify
rechecks
rolling-bearing
saddening
sarcocystoid
semi-controlled mosaic
service substance
space decoration
step strobe marker
submedian vein
that is the bottom line
thermologist
throat section
tidal impulse
to what extent
topkapis
transportation of live fish
ultrasonic level ga(u)ge
underground cooling
unmanifesting
ventral anterior nucleus
voice interruption priority system
washing amalgam
watchnight
water cooled impression tray
window for finance activity
wired logic control
wrasses
zero speed position
zilascorb