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
a-calling
A-PD
air cooled cylinder
air-defences
alpha-acrose
animation applet
artist's conception
at a fixed period after a stated date
bedlamites
benchmark system
bettag
big marigolds
bleeds
captive customers
catechisers
chlorozone
clayfields
connection in opposite
dawked
decentralized processing
dutch rabbit
dynamic-equivalence translation
ecto-entad
electronic medical system
Elisenvaara
engage in politics
english language teaching and learning
euskirchen
exhibition matches
extragovernmental
fast freight traffic
female sex cell
final acceptance trial
foramen of winslow (or epiploic foramen)
forward-rotating wave
gym
gypsum crust
haceks
handover date
have need to do sth.
hundees
Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry
kiddingly
kinanes
klugman
lennard-jones
Leptunis
line numbering
liquid level manometer
loaded radius
loon pants
machinery in the casthouse
microcline-perthite
minority carrier diffusion length
modulation transfer function
morning paralyses
much-what
multirow-crop rotary cultivator
nifurpipone
office blocks
online writing center
oxypetalum
Parnassia pusilla
pathological sciences
periodic(dl)
Piedras Pt.
plicae urachi
polish agent
positive peak
Pīr Morāl
rabbittite
Rabdosia setschwanensis
Ramik
reaction vane
resting guide
sachr
saturation of excitation system
scapha
Scutellaria stenosiphon
sea coast
sense of colo(u)r
Seprafilm
shadow definer
software for industrial process control
special aeronautical chart
spirantization
steering system
subarctic currnet
subfeatures
sugar shell
suggestress
sun grebe
thoracectomy
thread safe
thyrocricoid puncture
tshombes
tungsten pentoxide
vector wave
verification of accounts
Vologda
warp drawing
zone movement