时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:VOA2003(上)-美国故事


英语课

   重点词汇


  pitch: vt. 投;掷;定位于;
  schedule: vt. 安排,计划;编制目录;将……列入计划表
  There are two twin brothers named Ricky and Bobby who enjoyed playing baseball. Rickey was always the pitcher 1 and Bobby was always the second baseman.
  One day, they were sitting on the couch 2 when Ricky wondered aloud," Do you think they play baseball in heaven?"
  "I don't know" replied Bobby.
  "Is there a way to find out," asked Ricky.
  "I have an idea," replied Bobby. " How about if one of us ever dies, he has to come back and tell the other if there is baseball in heaven."
  "Ok, it's a deal."Ricky agreed.
  A few days later, Ricky was cycling down the road when he was hit by a car. he died on the way to hospital. Bobby went to the funeral and cried for days.
  A week later, he was visited by the ghost of his dead brother.
  "Have you come to tell me id they play baseball in heaven?" Bobby asked.
  "Well, I have good news and bad news," said Ricky. " The good news is that they do play baseball in heaven. The bad news is that you are scheduled to pitch tomorrow."
  有两个双胞胎兄弟叫Ricky和Bobby,他们喜欢打棒球。Ricky总是投手Bobby, 一直是二垒手。
  有一天,他们正坐在沙发上,瑞奇大声地问:“你认为他们在天堂打棒球吗?”
  “我不知道,”Bobby回答说。
  “有办法知道吗?”瑞奇问道。
  “我有个主意,”Bobby回答说。如果我们中有一个人死了,他必须回来告诉另一个人,如果天堂里没有棒球。
  “好的,一言为定。”瑞奇同意了。
  几天后,瑞奇在路上骑车,突然被一辆车撞了。他在去医院的路上就死了。Bobby去参加葬礼,哭了好几天。
  一周后,他死去的哥哥的鬼魂造访了他。
  “你是来告诉我他们在天堂打棒球的吗?”Bobby问。
  “嗯,我有好消息和坏消息,”瑞奇说。好消息是他们确实在天堂打棒球。坏消息是你被安排在明天投球。”

1 pitcher
n.(有嘴和柄的)大水罐;(棒球)投手
  • He poured the milk out of the pitcher.他从大罐中倒出牛奶。
  • Any pitcher is liable to crack during a tight game.任何投手在紧张的比赛中都可能会失常。
2 couch
n.睡椅,长沙发椅;vt.表达,隐含
  • Lie down on the couch if you're feeling ill.如果你感觉不舒服就躺到沙发上去。
  • The rabbIt'sprang from its grassy couch.兔子从草丛中跳出。
标签: 早餐英语
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'Uwaynah
abbadoes
according to Holy
aeneum
antispermotoxic sera
arianisms
avoid zone
axial color (longitudial chromatic) aberration
bank edge
battement gliss?
beaute
boiler dished end plate
bonding of propeller to shaft
burning rubber
calcium rhodochrosite
call-offs
celibatarians
clasmatocytic
class Actinozoa
Col-Evac
commodity supply potential volume
corrosive nature of seawater
data service unit
desalination by ion exchange membrane
dimasi
direction and revolution indicator
directory management
Disk Usage
disobservant
dog's breakfast
electronic scanning radar
emergent layer
endometritis-salpingitis-peritonitis
entropy index
faint haze
full premimum if lost
grid modulated amplifier
hackit
hemitone
homogeneous environment
Hydroxocobamine
instantaneous orbital element
intolerable
iobitridol
japanese-american
korrigum
lea harrow
lifting belt
ligg. cuneometatarsea interossea
lose in shuffle
loss of off-site power
lota alto
luminous edge
maximum guaranteed capability
maximum tire speed
MPlayer
multideck
neurit(e)
organic mercury
oriented circle
oticodinia
outbowed
pathogenic parasite
patrist
pedro r. fernandez
periconceptually
periodic attractor
plastic behavior
pohlia nutans(schreb)lindb.
posseted
primary additive colours
purred
quadribasic
refund income tax
relative URL
rimrunner
rocking-turn
rostra
salt tolerance
Schönhausen
sediment deposition
sedimentation average molecular weight
self-profit
slider support
sonnenschein's reagent
splintlet
sublapsarians
theory of special creation
Torrebaja
tricyclovetivene
type xii distribution
under-weigh
underpressure protection
unpsychedelic
unsoundnesses
urogenital sinus sphincter
vacuum tube hearing aid
want and desire
Washington State
white hog
wireless fog signal
zigadenuss