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。
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Alpinia sessiliflora
American Depositary Receipt
articular facet of lateral malleolus
automatic pipetting device
Barb.
battle of Soissons-Reims
bottom outlet hole
bricks up
broad reach
bureaucratese
calaber
calcantite(chaloanthite)
Can you beat that ?
complex effect
convergence theorem
convexity radius
cotton fiber
cutter tilt
diked area
direct-drive acceleration
earnings reports
enriched gas
epigonism
error corrector device
essure
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ficedula hyperythra innexa
flat plug
fluorotrichloroethylene
formaldehyde gas
full-load waterline
functional cloning
gitostin
ground coupled heat pump
Hoya longifolia
hyper-masculine
impressio cardiaca
incomplete heart block
infrared detectors
kemse
ketotetrose aldolase
Kitampungu
knot diagram
knups
leishmania pifanoi
lipoprotein lipase (lpl)
low level controller
make one's acquaintance
Mapastepec
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merris
mesometamorphic
metallic lubricant
milliroentgen hour meter
Misburg
misrated
mosquito control
nource
Nuvacon
operations manager
Orto-Surt
owner-manager
phenylphosphinic acid
placer iron
plain broth
playactings
polycaryotic
presumptions of innocence
public prostitute
relative sensitivity coefficient of mass spectrograph
reset file
residual inhibition
rest and relaxation
routeing domain
satellite aberration
scanalyze
secondary cellulose acetate
sends in
short cylindrical roller bearing
soil heat flux
spanaemias
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standard practice instruction
subscriber display
suction and discharge hose
supplementary variable
syzygia
tachybaptus ruficollis
take to something like a duck to water
Tonbridgians
top chisel
trade agreements
transmoved
trichite
tungsten pentoxide
uniporter
viewing angle correction
volume diagram of earth work
weather-resistant varnish
wellposed
Yel'ninskiy Rayon
zirconium vanadium blue