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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3-bromopropene
AbstractArray
aerial perspective
aeroion
air inlet port
alicea
ambiguity feature
amputation in contiguity
antibullfighting
aphis farinosa
approximating
archaism
automatic book stack
available mode
Bacillus aerogenes meningitidis
Ban Na Lao
battery powered appliance
belaying pin
Bogamé
branch statement
bus-drivers
calibrating pressure
capitulums
caudomedial
civilian
coccygodynia
complete alternation
conductor access method
convulsion of nature
d.c. restoration
deerslayer
demerara-river
dieneanalogs
direct current main
direct injection (diesel) engine
discrimination method
egg tempera
error correcting decoder
event sampling
exoterical
extrinsic photoemission
fast coding
flying spot scanning tube
gas specific volume
gas-alcohol
Gonder
have not a penny to bless oneself with
hemiganglion
horizontal blanking interval
hot air drying machine
in the daytime
inconveniently
indicator driving wheel ring
Institute of London Underwriter's Clause
iod-atacamite
jingoist
joy-riders
kaseys
liquidation tax
merchantesses
meter-rate
micafil
Nasu-dake
near-in sidelobe
nonmarketplace
oil-type air cleaner
Orab
out in left field
papaver heterophyllums
pentapoleis
preliminary sedimentation tank
preloved
propositus,proband
Quartodistal
regional differences
relucted
reptans
rhombohedral axis
rubber pelvis
Saccharomyces(genus)
sacred and inviolable
say in sport
security fence
semi-geostrophic motion
semi-saturation
sgab culture
silasesquiazane
simplicissimus
slack up
splice cable
stability criterion
Standard and Poor's
Stokowski, Leopold(Antoni Stanislaw)
tandem stranding machine
tape operation system
that play
throbbin'
throughout the length and breadth
twattling
under-enumerations
unjamming
whip and spur