时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   Joey slipped on some ice and hit his head. He came to in a hospital. A nurse asked how he felt. He said, "Fine. Did you have red grapes, a boiled egg, and green tea for breakfast?" She asked, "How did you know?" He said, "That's what your breath smells like." Amazed, she called her supervisor 1. Many doctors examined Joey. Joey had acquired the sense of smell of a dog. DEA hired him to sniff 2 people and baggage entering the country. Joey's nose detected a million dollars' worth of drugs every day. He was the agency’s "top dog." But as months went by, Joey changed. He stopped shaving. He stopped getting haircuts. He stopped using deodorant 3. He started giving cats the evil eye. DEA had to let him go after he started sniffing 4 travelers' butts 5. However, his ex-boss said, "If he starts running around on all fours, we'll rehire him."



1 supervisor
n.监督人,管理人,检查员,督学,主管,导师
  • Between you and me I think that new supervisor is a twit.我们私下说,我认为新来的主管人是一个傻瓜。
  • He said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor.他说我太轻浮不能成为一名好的管理员。
2 sniff
vi.嗅…味道;抽鼻涕;对嗤之以鼻,蔑视
  • The police used dogs to sniff out the criminals in their hiding - place.警察使用警犬查出了罪犯的藏身地点。
  • When Munchie meets a dog on the beach, they sniff each other for a while.当麦奇在海滩上碰到另一条狗的时候,他们会彼此嗅一会儿。
3 deodorant
adj.除臭的;n.除臭剂
  • She applies deodorant to her armpits after she showers.沐浴后,她在腋下涂上除臭剂。
  • Spray deodorant and keep the silk garments dry before dressing.在穿衣之前,洒涂防臭剂并保持干燥。
4 sniffing
n.探查法v.以鼻吸气,嗅,闻( sniff的现在分词 );抽鼻子(尤指哭泣、患感冒等时出声地用鼻子吸气);抱怨,不以为然地说
  • We all had colds and couldn't stop sniffing and sneezing. 我们都感冒了,一个劲地抽鼻子,打喷嚏。
  • They all had colds and were sniffing and sneezing. 他们都伤风了,呼呼喘气而且打喷嚏。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
5 butts
笑柄( butt的名词复数 ); (武器或工具的)粗大的一端; 屁股; 烟蒂
  • The Nazis worked them over with gun butts. 纳粹分子用枪托毒打他们。
  • The house butts to a cemetery. 这所房子和墓地相连。
学英语单词
a large number of secondary roots
A. N. C.
acellularity
acro cephalosyndactylia
AGR
at a range of
Ayan-Yuryakh
bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwiches
billie
block-in-course
bohr-sommerfeld
boradcasting studio
breath-testings
brownface
bulk-effect device
calculus of renal pelvis
Caldervale
central reserve city banks
chateau'd
chromatoscope
chromium-plateds
climatic fermentation
coarse crystal sugar
copiosity
cosmonette
critical convergence
critical wind velocity
crosshead and slippage
DCEE
death wish
deltorphin
deterministic modeling
diamond-blackfan syndrome
dimgray
doubly-clad fiber
dwarf by
eligible commercial paper
external urethal orifice
fairwayt
financial crises
firkin'
Fissura orbitalis superior
flip-over process
flood protection work
gas caloricity
general duty nursing
gliftor
glucose phosphate
Gomphrena celosioides
Google Glasses
greenaspis elongata
guigon
hyperventilates
hypochloridaemia
ifoes
instructor of gymnastics
international civil servant
kabyles
l-adic representation
lackbrain
less-rigorous
lignosulfin
magnetorheological fluid
Maxwell unit solenoid
mean block anomaly
microdeletion
mock eightlock
necrotic infectious conjunctivitis
not bat an egelid
optical cartridge
overpreparing
pace voltage
Paris green
percent finer
perichondrum
Peulh
pH test paper pH
pstn based circuit switched data network
radial clearance
ratio tip velocity
ROSIE
selectorized
Senni
serpan
sincereness
Smilacina henryi
spinal center
stenantha
straddle mill
subconfluency
subgrade heave
syphilogenous
terminology
theroetical heat cycle
top edging
uncrinkles
Union City
Ventris, Michael George Francis
Waksman
wear limit
woman of pleasure
xystum