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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acrotomous
Akkermanovka
amino-acid diathesis
armywide
average train travel(l)ing speed
bagsvaerd
bare-bones
baseband system
blast furnace ferromanganese
bust one's butt
campanilian
canalith
canisterized
causalgias
check-off list
cold-sores
concrete mixing tower
contunely
core pull assembly
corporealities
Crayon-pastel
cycadophytes
daikoku mai (japan)
degraffenreid
egewise needle
elevation-position indicator
enamoviruses
energy-flow diagram
evaluation of intelligence
excess power
family Passifloraceae
field wave
fireline
foreign exchange terminology
frog-bit
get a cropper
get down to sth
goods elevator
grimbo
handmicrotelephone
Harada-Ito procedure
harrald
heating techniques
Hopkinson load-back method
hypermedia link
infantile hypertrophic gastric stenosis
introduction of foreign investment
IPI
Irrespective of Loss or Not Clause
kaplow
Kesagami R.
Khalsa
Kwa R.
lactarazulene
legras
lesnoys
level fixer
low impedance earthing array
LSPB (large scale prototype breeder)
magnesium bromoplatinate
make your market
mash coveyor
melican
mutual share transfer
Mykonos, Nisos
narrow-track landing gear
o-hydroxyphenyl ethyl ketone
OM (operator manual mode)
origin of goods
parallel taxiway
Phallales
poetic nature
point of crystallization
pryme
rectangular connector
respect each other
sale by pattern
schizochytrium octosporum
seeing double
seven-days
silent but deadly
soft information
spectrotron
spotted gums
St-Maurice-sur-Moselle
supratrigeminal
surgeon
tempered forged steel
to beat
toner metering roller
transverse shaper
trunk calls
ullage port
uneating
untrimmed edge
vesicular appendix
virilio
wachmann
wakashu
washing roller
wickir
zero-beta