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。
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a-toluic aldehyde
algorithm based fault tolerance
amsterdamoya(new amsterdam i.)
berming
cardiomegaly
center spread
ceratotheriums
Chashmeh Tuleh
closed pneumothorax
clupea sprattuss
concentric ring
copper gold
Courantyne River
Cryptorrhynchus insidiosus
deprensible
dodecandrian
emendatory
emergency chamber
enfleshes
excision of internal capsule
fine-grained dropwise condensation
first in system-first served rule
generator output
grounds
Hamill
hemipinta
heyecun
high frequency channel
hinged guard
hold back the truth
imbrute
in gage of
in someone's blood
inept
intraperitonially
Karl Fischer titration
Kartvel
khesari
lafers
letterss of administration
lifesaver
liquid petroleum gas ship(LPG ship)
metal block oven
MFPC
mollitrichosiphum tenuicorpus
narcosynthesis
nifurantin
non-reentrant beam crossed-field amplifier tube
nonunivocal
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ounce-for-ounce
overnight poll
panduri
panhypogonadism
partway
pedagogical knowledge
pepe
periglypta puerpera
petkeeper
photoelastic sandwich method
physiological effect
Poian
postsynaptic receptor
pseudoscopes
purlings
quenchometer
Rasawi
raw material inventory
respirologist
rod holder
rubi
Rīyāq
san jose state university
sartor resartus
save as to ftp
sea-surface
segmental bronchus
shanking
Sherman, Roger
side pork
side wall coring
single acting raising machine
spectacle shaft bracket
spectroscopic carrier
splooshed
stenosemus golikovi
stormtransposition
sub network
sugarbeet
talked past
training institution
transmission path loss
trench hoe attachment
unconditioned complex reflex
van Leyden
veer off
volcanollogy
water cooled strain gauge balance
water service cock
windage resistance
wine lees
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