时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


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“Why were you so rude to your brother?” Gladys asked. “He drove 1 all the way over here to deliver that package to you. But you didn’t invite him inside your apartment. You didn’t offer him anything to drink or eat. Then, when he was talking to me, you kept telling him to speak faster. He was speaking slowly because he knows my English isn’t that good—he was just being polite. Finally, when he and I sat down in the living room, you just went to your computer and started typing away.”


William tried to explain to Gladys that what she saw between him and his brother was their normal interaction 2. Roland was simply delivering a package; there was nothing for the two of them to chat about. Further, Roland felt that William's apartment had an odor 3; he usually didn’t even come inside the apartment when he visited. In addition, Roland was very picky about what he drank and ate—he wasn’t interested in eating William’s “junk food.”


Finally, William argued, he had told Roland many times not to “talk down” to Gladys. “He talks to you like you’re a two-year-old,” William said.


She said she didn’t mind; Roland was just trying to communicate. She just wished that William would be more polite to him. “When my sister visits me,” she said, “I hug her, I invite her inside, we eat and drink and talk, and we just have a good time with each other.”


Well, William told her, he and his brother were different. “No,” she corrected him, “maybe you and I are different.”


 



1 drove
vbl.驾驶,drive的过去式;n.畜群
  • He drove at a speed of sixty miles per hour.他以每小时60英里的速度开车。
  • They drove foreign goods out of the market.他们把外国货驱逐出市场。
2 interaction
n.交流;相互作用,相互影响,合作
  • The interaction of the two groups produced many good ideas.两个组的相互交流产生了许多好主意。
  • Price is determined through the interaction of demand and supply.价格在供需的相互作用中形成。
3 odor
n.气味,香气,臭气
  • The whole herb has a characteristic taste and odor.整株药草有种独特的味道和气味。
  • He is in bad odor with his friends.他在朋友中声誉不佳。
学英语单词
ader waxes
african easterly jet (aej)
agitating capacity
ahni
Alphacca
ancient house
aqw-
Arabic numerial
ash bin (ash storage bin)
assume the pose of
atrophic emphysema
automatic combustion system
automatic slide changer
bay the moon
bilge timber
Borowa
bromid
cable reliever
cache unit
cae(computer-aided engineering)
Chemung group
chronic glossitis
Chronic-Phase
claflin
colume of Goll
complete denture
Contratuss
coonhounds
corbie-step
coumingaine
cul-de-lampe
cutesifies
Cynomel
dallaway
Derbeshkinskiy
effective emissivity
embosoming
entry-level job
feed-check valve
foundership
furamide
getter action
Gurjão
gute
homity pie
huelgas
imperant
jettisonings
Joseph Pt.
k-car
leaf mining
macrolycus latus
macropphage
Magnetobacterium
mesomorphic soil
microcent
midscream
morbus climaticus
morkin
moroccan monetary units
moteling
narrow web shearer
native audio
olivary bodies
open loop experiment
oxhide
packet network architecture
packet retransmission
paper-back
Paris white
pasteurism
physiologic unit
Picumninae
practised on
pretensioned prestressed concrete girder
principal e-plane
pulpy gangrene
rightsowner
safety cut-out device
Shuigou
shuttle race back spring
slanting butt seam welding
slotkin
soil consistency constant
superenormous
sussexdowns
synthetic sulfur dye
table-chair
Taenianthera
tax-man
technology infrastructure
tetraponera attenuata
thermal fin
thrown our bread upon the water
transmitting aperture
two-plane balancing machine
ungrowable
unitarily equivalent representation
US Airways
us smoothie
venemouse
warm sb.'s jacket