时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


英语课

Thirty years ago golf legend Gary Player, now 72, won his third and last Masters tournament in Augusta, Georgia. Yesterday, a second golfer from South Africa won the Masters. “Finally!” said Gary, proudly.


Sunday, April 13, was cool and very windy. Only nine of the 45 golfers managed to shoot par 1 or better. Trevor Immelman, 28, struggled throughout the day. But he managed to maintain his lead, finally beating Tiger Woods by three strokes. Tiger finished in second place for the third year in a row.


Trevor was PGA Rookie of the Year in 2006. But since 2006 he had won only one PGA tournament. He missed the first two months of the 2008 golf season after surgeons removed a benign 2 tumor 3 on his diaphragm. The tumor, coincidentally, was the size of a golf ball. Trevor played poorly in the tournaments he entered after recovering from the surgery.


In the Houston tournament just one week before the Masters, Trevor missed the cut. In professional golf tournaments, the cut occurs after the first 36 holes. Half the golfers—the ones with the worst scores—are dropped from the tournament. They earn no money.


In Britain, where bookies always post the odds 4 for the Masters, Trevor was a long shot. But anyone who bet $10 on him before Thursday would have won $800 on Sunday. In two weeks, Trevor had gone from worst to first—from failing to win a dime 5 in Texas to wearing the prized green jacket in Georgia (and $1.35 million). When asked what contributed most to his victory, Trevor said it wouldn’t have been possible without his parents’ loving support during his years as a junior golfer.


 



1 par
n.标准,票面价值,平均数量;adj.票面的,平常的,标准的
  • Sales of nylon have been below par in recent years.近年来尼龙织品的销售额一直不及以往。
  • I don't think his ability is on a par with yours.我认为他的能力不能与你的能力相媲美。
2 benign
adj.善良的,慈祥的;良性的,无危险的
  • The benign weather brought North America a bumper crop.温和的气候给北美带来大丰收。
  • Martha is a benign old lady.玛莎是个仁慈的老妇人。
3 tumor
n.(肿)瘤,肿块(英)tumour
  • He was died of a malignant tumor.他死于恶性肿瘤。
  • The surgeons irradiated the tumor.外科医生用X射线照射那个肿瘤。
4 odds
n.让步,机率,可能性,比率;胜败优劣之别
  • The odds are 5 to 1 that she will win.她获胜的机会是五比一。
  • Do you know the odds of winning the lottery once?你知道赢得一次彩票的几率多大吗?
5 dime
n.(指美国、加拿大的钱币)一角
  • A dime is a tenth of a dollar.一角银币是十分之一美元。
  • The liberty torch is on the back of the dime.自由火炬在一角硬币的反面。
学英语单词
adhami
Aitoliko
ANTILOG(Antilogarithm)
apert
auxiliary electric machine
Awangio
band shift
bandi
beam span
berangan
Butirosine
care-away
certificate policy
charge-controlled storage tube
chloroprocaine
collapsible container
complex vibration
connivings
constant load
cornucopia
cysteinyl-tRNA
data entry system
dexsecoverine
diagonal filing
dialogue speaker
Diospolis Mikra
edmund spensers
euphoric
exit receipt
fault indication device
fibrogastroscopy
framery
genuflect
genus Bocconia
girlschools
Hapsiphyllum
haul oneself up by one's own bootstraps
have a swim
head-scratchings
heavily compound-wound motor
highway data bank
hip to
home-bird
impactor
implicit storage management
interbike
leigh-mallory
liquid asset
long addendum tooth
lyson
marienglas
martyrising
Masoji
mcgranahan
melaphyres
menstruated
mixed bed column
multiple comparator method
natally
noonstead
not agree with sb
open-loop dpcm
overmature
patentometrics
physiotherapeutically
polymorphous heredity
preadapted
prepared atmosphere
protolophid
rakhimov
rank technique
rationalized vessel
re-deployment
register of directors' interests
ripeness for felling
rotche
safety pulley
section boundary
sensor wiring
series undercurrent tripping
shemeful
signal
sinusoidal jump function
small amplitude modulation
Soveja
Sub-50-nm
surface space charge region
surface-set bit
synchronous rotation
tamabler
thoghts
time rate wage
Trudeau, Edward Livingston
two-dimensional deflection
unifiliar
versatile additive
vibration rod
virginty
whiz
whole nine yards
XHTML MP
zondek-asehheim test