时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:原版英文小故事


英语课

It was a perfect day in Los Angeles. Even Shakespeare might not have words for a day like this. You had to “be there” to appreciate it. The sun was shining, and soft white clouds were parked in the deep blue sky. The temperature was perfect for shorts. Not chilly 1, not hot. A breeze occasionally stirred the leaves.


Most days in LA are hot. December and January are usually rainy and, for some reason, June is usually cool and overcast 2. Although many locals find June weather to be refreshingly 3 cool, the local TV weather people complain daily. “When is the ‘June gloom’ going to end?” they ask.


Eventually, of course, the gray June sky changes to a blue sky with very high temperatures. For the next five months, the local TV weather people complain about how hot it is, and get excited when the temperature drops five degrees.


Winter in LA means rain. Rain excites the local TV weather people. They get to remind viewers to remember their umbrellas, watch out for traffic, and drive extra carefully! They get to say “storm warning!” More than half the time, no storm follows the storm warning.


When a big storm hits LA, the local TV weather people show close-ups of big puddles 4 in the streets, close-ups of windshield wipers wiping away raindrops, and close-ups of wet people waiting at bus stops. Sometimes they show close-ups of TV reporters standing 5 ankle-deep in raging streams.


For some reason, the local TV weather people never have much to say about a perfect day like today.


 



1 chilly
adj.凉快的,寒冷的
  • I feel chilly without a coat.我由于没有穿大衣而感到凉飕飕的。
  • I grew chilly when the fire went out.炉火熄灭后,寒气逼人。
2 overcast
adj.阴天的,阴暗的,愁闷的;v.遮盖,(使)变暗,包边缝;n.覆盖,阴天
  • The overcast and rainy weather found out his arthritis.阴雨天使他的关节炎发作了。
  • The sky is overcast with dark clouds.乌云满天。
3 refreshingly
adv.清爽地,有精神地
  • Hers is less workmanlike than the other books and refreshingly unideological. 她的书不像其它书那般精巧,并且不涉及意识形态也让人耳目一新。 来自互联网
  • Skin is left refreshingly clean with no pore-clogging residue. 皮肤留下清爽干净,没有孔隙堵塞残留。 来自互联网
4 puddles
n.水坑, (尤指道路上的)雨水坑( puddle的名词复数 )
  • The puddles had coalesced into a small stream. 地面上水洼子里的水汇流成了一条小溪。
  • The road was filled with puddles from the rain. 雨后路面到处是一坑坑的积水。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 standing
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
学英语单词
achieve an end
adjustable ruler
after service export
amateur forecast
anthostrobiloid
anticancers
Armenoids
arwalds
atrophic thrombosis
back-end surfaces
Baler B.
broad ligaments (uterus)
bushbucks
cage pocket
caiman crocodilus
Caleta Clarencia
certainty equivalency principle
Chievitz layer
chloroplast genome
clipping constant
Coal Hill
compactly generated group
composite optical communication conductor
compression period
computerized branch exchange
crash waggon
curvilineal tile
cut up the links among departments and regions
DEN-1
denationalisation
development section
discharge liability
dispreaded
early phage
economic aid
epileptol
ernsts
ethoxalyl-
field lenses
foeniculaceus
functional fault
gnomology
gouch off
Guillemont
gypsum type
hedgehog crystals
Herodas
Hexopyrrolate
hilus tuberculosis
hydraulic pumps
i-truked
induellar
instinct of imitation
leiomyoma of kidney
longitudinal load
lysso-
mercruy thiocyanate
mesaticephalous
metabolus babai
meterod
microhomolog
munnell
nitroes
nmps
no better than one ought to be
norwegian trough
operational maintenance
overhead conductor
plant cost
polrvinyl
pretextatized
producorial
pseudoexophthalmos
rapidly progressing glomerulonephritis
real-time chatting
reflection migrating
relativistic covariance
Road-crown
rugovo warriors dance (yugoslavia)
scoles
sheared connector
side vane
silver-constantan thermocouple
skew frequency distribution
sleev
snowmobilists
sound absorbing
standardized outdoor advertising
Sterling Run
summer lubricating oil
Swansea Bay
sydney harbour bridge
taos
tartar sauces
tax-dodger
the United States Virgin Islands
thrombocytopathic
transcript card
tricuspid valve incompetence
ureidosuccinic acid
von Arx current meter
white baneberries