时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:原版英文小故事


英语课

One night a motorcyclist crashed into a bridge. The rider was on his way home from a party. Traveling at about 70 mph on the unlit, two-lane road, he lost control on a curve. He lay next to his motorcycle for 20 minutes before a passerby 1 noticed the wreckage 2.


A half hour later, the rider was lying on a gurney in the local hospital. Moaning in pain, he was unaware 3 of his condition or whereabouts. The emergency room doctors gave him no medication—they needed to examine him thoroughly 4 before taking him to surgery.


His jaw 5 was broken, as were all three bones in his right leg. Part of his femur was protruding 6 through his thigh 7, and there was a deep hole in his shin just below his knee. Dr. Kildare wanted to amputate the rider’s leg just below the knee. He said the hole in the shin was so deep that infection would be inevitable 8. He figured amputation 9 now would be better than amputation later.


Dr. Welby disagreed. He said the patient was young enough to heal rapidly, with little possibility of significant infection. Since Dr. Welby was in charge, the patient was allowed to keep his leg.


The day following surgery, the patient achieved brief consciousness in his hospital room. He didn’t notice that his leg was suspended and completely immobilized. He didn’t notice that there was an IV tube and needle taped into the back of each hand. He didn’t notice that his jaw was wired shut. All he noticed was that a beautiful young nurse was looking at him. He tried to introduce himself, but he had no idea what his name was. He went right back to sleep.


 



1 passerby
n.过路人,行人
  • We had our photo taken by a passerby.我们请了一个路人为我们照相。
  • A passerby heard her screams and rushed to her aid.一个过路人听见她的尖叫,便冲过去帮助她。
2 wreckage
n.(失事飞机等的)残骸,破坏,毁坏
  • They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
  • New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。
3 unaware
a.不知道的,未意识到的
  • They were unaware that war was near. 他们不知道战争即将爆发。
  • I was unaware of the man's presence. 我没有察觉到那人在场。
4 thoroughly
adv.完全地,彻底地,十足地
  • The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
  • The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。
5 jaw
n.颚,颌,说教,流言蜚语;v.喋喋不休,教训
  • He delivered a right hook to his opponent's jaw.他给了对方下巴一记右钩拳。
  • A strong square jaw is a sign of firm character.强健的方下巴是刚毅性格的标志。
6 protruding
v.(使某物)伸出,(使某物)突出( protrude的现在分词 );凸
  • He hung his coat on a nail protruding from the wall. 他把上衣挂在凸出墙面的一根钉子上。
  • There is a protruding shelf over a fireplace. 壁炉上方有个突出的架子。 来自辞典例句
7 thigh
n.大腿;股骨
  • He is suffering from a strained thigh muscle.他的大腿肌肉拉伤了,疼得很。
  • The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
8 inevitable
adj.不可避免的,必然发生的
  • Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
  • The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。
9 amputation
n.截肢
  • In ancient India,adultery was punished by amputation of the nose.在古代印度,通奸要受到剖鼻的处罚。
  • He lived only hours after the amputation.截肢后,他只活了几个小时。
学英语单词
achondroplasias
ADHA
alethe
alvanidine
apple bitter pit
bit error
blimbing
boolell
Bunkeya
business organization
certainty of knowledge
chaped commercial charges
chromium plated blade
citrinin
clean sweeps
cotes
critical fusion point in taste
cross sectional shape
cyclosa tricauda
deicer slinger ring
delta attribute
demidoffs
detachment thrust
detoxifies
developed area
diffracting grating
drew in
dynamic system monitoring
erbium glass
European silver fir
exclusive gate
face operator
fellow-sufferers
fights out
fluctuate data
furrow lever
genetic health
genus Reseda
grading
haematomma puniceum pacificum
hairclips
Harris, Benjamin
hectic fever
Hegai
high pressure load reducing spring
hypomagma
implement of soil foundation
independent point
induced protein
inducible phage
interconversion of chair forms
interosseous membranes
it matters to me
lamp bulb
late magmatic minerals
lyes
man-made isotope
maneuver margin
maruta
matchan
microsporums
milk bread
multiphotonic
n-address electronic computer
nephrocystosis
neurologic damage
not feel good
not give a cuss
Novyye Lapsary
of school age
Ol Lalunga
outdoor
overunder
palaeochannel hydrocarbon reservoir
phonoelectroscope
plate fan
Pretorius, Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus
priest's
pseudovitamins
put on something
rascettes
rawlsian social welfare function
reggae-ish
rod coil
rotary valve induction
sauteed
seccoon
speedometer flexible shaft with coating
stabilized voltage
stilbenoid
stock control system
substomatal
tactic polymerization
temporal distribution
the status quo ante
track ga(u)ge
translesbians
underlye
vacuum impregnating
virus nucleocapsid
water-plantain families
xander