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
-stele
amplifier
Andropov
antepipona biguttata
APT compiler
arteria hepatica communis
babylons
BAMARC
bed bug
beige mouse
besouth
bound book
Brachycera
carbonitrogen constitution
Cavitas peritonealis
cheflings
Chonemorpha floccosa
chrome base refractories
clock transaction
confidential indicator
Croce
design intensity
drop bottom furnace
duplex basin
earth background brightness
eclogitic
environment software tool
financial provision
fluid-bed drying
foland
formic acid (hco2h)
game license
glaslough (glasloch )
glycosuric
Gorilla gorilla beringei
grain transverse volumetric upset-ting moment
greasy fur
hal-
high vacuum valve
hitch casing
independent valuation
job lots
know it
laelaps traubi
lloyd's weekly casualty reports
LOI (letter of intention)
mathematics skill test
measurement committee
microprojection reading balance
mini-cup
network connection
Nussbaum's narcosis
oil and gas production sales tax
optical altimeter
oquawka
overhead sculling
p'o
padaung
painy
percent unbalance of phase voltage
pling
pocket calls
Port Chalmers
power of signature
prolocutors
psychic epilepsy
quarter wavelength line
racemic modification
reedits
refactive index soltion
released (of mortgage)
Richmal
secretaries of transportation
set someone's teeth on edge
shoulder safety belt
Silence gives consent
slab squeezer
snap bean
Solina
spirit-lifting
standard converter
strain tide
synchroflash
tbornapple
thinlyfluid
tolerance frame
transitionally
triffics
Trimadeau's sign
unit's place
Usburjan
user agent (ua)
V-antenna
valerate
vector diagram
venefic
Verneuil's method
Viet Cong
whaleships
what's-his-face
wide field of view