时间:2018-11-27 作者:英语课 分类:背诵为王第二册


英语课

6 The 21st Birthday



 


  All of his life George from Cape 1 Breton had heard stories ofan amazing family tradition. It seems that his father,grandfather and great-grandfather had all been able to walk onwater on their 21st birthday. On that day, they'd walk acrossthe lake to the boat club for their first legal drink.So when George's 21st birthday came around, he and his palCorky took a boat out to the middle of the lake. Georgestepped out of the boat and nearly drowned! Corky just managedto pull him to safety.Furious 2 and confused, George went to see his grandmother.“Grandma, it's my 21st birthday, so why can't I walk acrossthe lake like my father, his father, and his father beforehim?” Granny looked into George's eyes and said, “Because, youdumb ass 3, your father, grandfather and great grandfather wereborn in January. You were born in July.”




legal       合法的

drown     ? 淹死

furious      愤怒







21岁生日



生于Cape Breton的乔治自出生以来就听说了一个令人惊奇的家族轶事。他的父亲、祖父、曾祖父似乎都在他们二十一岁生日那天在水上行走。那一天,他们走过湖面,去划船俱乐部喝他们第一杯合法的酒。所以当乔治的二十一岁生日到来的时候,他和他的伙伴高尔基驾船来到河中央。乔治跨出船外,但他差一点淹死!高尔基拼命把他拉了上来。乔治感到生气和困惑,他去问他的祖母,“祖母,今天是我二十一岁的生日,但我为什么不能像父亲、祖父和曾祖父那样走过湖面呢?”祖母注视着他的眼睛说,“傻瓜,因为你的父亲,祖父和曾祖父在一月出生,而你生在七月。”



1 cape
n.海角,岬;披肩,短披风
  • I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
  • She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。
2 furious
adj.狂怒的,暴怒的,强烈的,激烈的
  • I was furious at his making such an accusation.我对他的这种责备非常气愤。
  • His wife was furious with him.他妻子对他大发雷霆。
3 ass
n.驴;傻瓜,蠢笨的人
  • He is not an ass as they make him.他不象大家猜想的那样笨。
  • An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden.驴能负重但不能超过它能力所负担的。
学英语单词
aft closure
airfoil chord
amboyna
analytic form
Anchoa
arteriae meningea posterior
Ban Ang Et
bastardizer
bemisia
betrayeth
bettl reaction
bever
bolding ground
CAEBV
carbon granule microphone
cavity-stabilized oscillator
cephalic module
chloroprenes
claw-foot
commercial speech
compound truss
crossclass
deformation cross method
defruiter equipment
diazo indigo blue 4GL
discipless of christ
disciplinary measure
DO range
dtacs
Edinger-Westphal nucleus
electric driven toy panda
elements of statistical theory
emergency committee
Endeavour Str.
feminist methodology
flunirazepam
fluorescein test
foreign exchange conversion rate
four-high roller leveler
gafas
germinating
giracodazole
Gorokhovo
gravity wire rope way
Gries P.
ground level chip silo
heat duty of pipe still
heat pipe radiator
heat-hardened rail
highly enriched
hot tear
hyperimmunized
ixabepilone
land agency
links-links patterning mechanism
list head
Malyy Zhuzhmuy, Ostrov
Mareth(Marith)
Massieu function
methyl oxidation
metrisable
moment of shearing
Murray River
naked cell
napalm bomb
nitric acid burn
non-fission absorption
NUC-1
oil bag
old-time
optical cavity
overlengthens
Palestinians
paper to bearer
parameter of saturation
pars optica
pay the bills
Petrinize
psyra spurcataria
quab
richolt
riveting and rivet extracting press
sauce bercy
say everything
Sebekidae
silica defect
siryah
stachyophyllum
stropharia ambiguas
structured program testing
subf.
test questions
toll recording trunk
tripler transformer
unamortized discount on bonds sold
undisfulfilled
verrucous status
vivisector
winter building construction
with a start
worm out of difficulties
zereglia