时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:流畅说英语口语教程


英语课

Clever Dog

For years, a dog turned up on the butcher’s doorstep every Wednesday morning to do its owner’s shopping. On this Wednesday morning, the dog walked into the butcher’s shop as usual with a purse around its neck. The butcher asked the dog what it wanted. It pointed 1 its paw 2 to the sausages.

"How many kilos”? The butcher asked.

The dog looked into his eyes and barked once. The butcher packed one kilo of sausages.

"Anything else”? He asked.

The dog pointed to the beef burgers.

"How many”? The butcher asked.

The dog barked four times. The butcher packed four beef burgers. The dog then walked behind the counter and stayed very still. So, the butcher could open its purse, take the right money and tie the meat around the dog’s neck. Then the dog turned around and walked off. A regular customer was surprised to see the dog doing its shopping and decided 3 to follow it home. After about a kilometer, the dog approached a house and scratched the door. When it opened, the customer said to the woman inside the house.

"That’s a very clever dog you have, er?”

"Clever”? She replied, “Not really, that’s the second time this week it’s forgotten this front door keys.”



1 pointed
adj.尖的,直截了当的
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
2 paw
n.手掌,手爪;v.以蹄扒地,笨拙地使用,费力地前进
  • He served as a cat's paw.他充当爪牙。
  • Don't paw at everything you see.别见什么摸什么。
3 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
学英语单词
a fader
additional agent
admiral
andragogy
as black as my hat
Aventines
be caught with chaff
billow maidens
blood chemistry
bunching space
burst emphasis
business reputation
cargo block
cask flask
chain assembly
close packing of organic molecule
constant thickness line
critical district
cyclohexyl chloride
CYCLOPHORIDA
data set
district road
drosophila (drosophila) nigrodigita
elastic neutron scattering
electronpherogram
elongation change
etheredge
family Motacillidae
fire hoe
flood pot test
formal denotational semantics
fruit collector
fuller hammer
genus micropogoniass
Glypressin
grating monochrometor
greenblue
homopolar
in the weeds
indicator switch
ink painting
inside-the-park homers
intramolecular anhydride
isodonal
jenkem
large panel wall
lawful interceptions
legal owner
length of boss
live off the fat of the land
maidenii
major advantage
minor loading condition
mip-tv
misspoke
multiplier quotient register
nasal process of the frontal bone
newschannel
NLT not later than
nonparticipial
Oronoque R.
orthophoric
outer bottom
oxybutynin
pareil
parrot's bill
peak concentration
Phenemal
railway construction in process account
relay finder
resalutes
residual method of valuation
reverse weathering
ribosylates
rindless
rollnick
rotating erasing head
ryotei
Sasa longiligulata
Save All
seismographic observatory
shellproof
shortgrass
sleeve lock actuator
squalene
stored data description language
strikingness
structurally
stungest
sucker process
taurocol
tetrasporangium
three-shell lithiumbromide absorption refrigerating machine
type conversions
underthtand
viertel
volkstaat
well-closed containet
wheelie bar
work hardening exponent
Yi Hsing
zirconium oxide