时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:原版英文小故事


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Patricia asked for the cheapest car available at Acme 1 Car Rental 2. She needed a car for 48 hours. Because it was the weekend, there was only one car available at the moment—an SUV. Patricia was an environmentalist. SUVs, which are big cars consuming a lot of gasoline, offended her greatly.


But she needed something to get to Baker 3, a town that was 100 miles from the small airport. So she went to RentMe instead. “I need a car for 48 hours,” she said, “and I don’t want an SUV. I want something cheap.” They told her they had just the vehicle for her, a 1998 Fiat 4. It was only thirty dollars a day, including insurance and other incidental fees. All she had to do was to pay for her own gasoline. Patricia was very pleased. Thirty dollars a day was a good rate even for a weekday. She signed all the paperwork, and they gave her the keys.


The Fiat was a 4-speed, 4-cylinder, 2-door beauty. The paint, tires, and the interior 5 were like new. It was comfortable, even though the air-conditioner was not the frostiest. She got in and drove north. It was a two-lane road all the way to Baker, with only one town between the airport and Baker. That town was Norris, 40 miles from Baker.


Patricia didn’t make it to Norris. The car refused to run 30 minutes after she had been driving it. Fortunately, her cell phone was able to connect back to the RentMe desk. “My car stopped running, and I’m out here in the middle of nowhere in the hot sun!” she said.


“That doesn’t make any sense,” said the clerk. “You did put gas in the car before you left town, didn’t you?”


“No, of course not!” yelled 6 Patricia. “Why would I put gas in the car before I even got out of town?”


“Well, why do you think you got such a good rate—we save money by having the customer gas up instead of us having to put gas in the car.”


“I was in a hurry,” said Patricia.


“Well, sometimes you pay a price for being in a hurry,” said the clerk. “We’ll send a man out with some spare gas for you, if you’d like.”


“Of course I’d like,” said Patricia. “How long will it be?”


The clerk told her it would be within the hour. He didn’t tell her that there would be a $50 service charge for delivering the gas, or that the 3 gallons of fuel would cost her $7 a gallon. She would get that bad news when she returned the car to the airport.


 



1 acme
n.顶点,极点
  • His work is considered the acme of cinematic art. 他的作品被认为是电影艺术的巅峰之作。
  • Schubert reached the acme of his skill while quite young. 舒伯特的技巧在他十分年轻时即已达到了顶峰。
2 rental
n.租赁,出租,出租业
  • The yearly rental of her house is 2400 yuan.她这房子年租金是2400元。
  • We can organise car rental from Chicago O'Hare Airport.我们可以安排提供从芝加哥奥黑尔机场出发的租车服务。
3 baker
n.面包师
  • The baker bakes his bread in the bakery.面包师在面包房内烤面包。
  • The baker frosted the cake with a mixture of sugar and whites of eggs.面包师在蛋糕上撒了一层白糖和蛋清的混合料。
4 fiat
n.命令,法令,批准;vt.批准,颁布
  • The opening of a market stall is governed by municipal fiat.开设市场摊位受市政法令管制。
  • He has tried to impose solutions to the country's problems by fiat.他试图下令强行解决该国的问题。
5 interior
adj.在内的,内部的,内地的,国内的;n.内部
  • There is water in the interior of the cave.在山洞的内部有水。
  • They went into the interior room.他们进了内室。
6 yelled
v.叫喊,号叫,叫着说( yell的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He yelled at the other driver. 他冲着另一位司机大叫。
  • The lost man yelled, hoping someone in the woods would hear him. 迷路的人大声喊着,希望林子里的人会听见。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
.mv
alignment hole
alkylferrocene
all-weld bridge
antipress
atrex
autonomous function
bordure
budell
chastizement
colores
colour television mask
compact disk-interactive
cribrous
cross-river buoy
crossed roller chains
dangerous pile
dannys
deep search
deoppilated
differential liberation
diffusion-reflection
divisionalizations
dumasia cordifolia benth et. backer
effective gas-oil ratio
eggs benedicts
erosional basin
fabii
falls off the wagon
felting resistance
fenbutatin oxide
fuel tolerance
fur goods
genus Prosopis
glenlyon
hash brownie
heavyheartedly
high-altitudes
high-frequency test bay
hyperemia cardiac failure
increasing nutrient concentration
incremental frequence shift
interpols
jail-bird
jyllands-posten
kasts
Kenacort
less-polluting
line clinometer
linguistic semiotics
load-balancing
Luxemburgish
magnetomechanical ratio
manual slot
marginal cost and revenue
mean blade width
mixed banking system
moderately fine texture
motlanthe
multiple sequence operation
Niekerkshoop
nominal terms
noncowboy
order cycadaless
overshoulder
overspecific
packing cloth
pain in the rear
pardoning the bad is injuring the good
personal selling
pointwise finite
poke and pry
pouring reel
preclavus
profits by
protestant church music
put under one's belt
rainmaker remover nozzle
reachability graph
reflex receiver
Resykin
river-marine vessel
root crops
scalene right triangle
scheduling resource
sima rock
simultaneousequation model
square-wave pulse of light
superfine grain developer
synangium
Tabakerz
taxing power
Ticonal
totally enclosed type motor
Trailliaedoxa
true yeasts
trypots
unscroll
USMA
water proofing material
xanthan
yang jin