时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   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 minion of fortune
a sense of humor
A-zone(A-horizon)
ADIAB
advocacy tank
aminopolypeptidase
ammonium chloroplatinite
antinobilism
arabiss
arc suppression reactor
Ariana, Gouvernorat de
assyriologies
audit review
Bali Basin
balsamo
body nut
broom drag
burst of target current
caboose siding
cemil
characteristic energy loss spectroscopy
command exit
contour rolling
copra
corrugated metal gasket
cosmobarometry
cover to cover
cteniform
curmudgeonhood
defense technical information centers
differential aptitude test(dat)
electronic speckle pattern interferometry (espi)
enceliae
ferrates
fiberopticss
fibrous dysplasia of bones
filled rectangle
fixed effect
Flaherty, Robert
fluorescent bleach
frame per second
Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins
George Herman Ruth
gives rise to
gramzow
gunnersides
Hartnup
homophase
hyperbolic measure
ignore option
imminence
industrial garden
inferior epigastric vein
iris remote
khephren
kings of england
Kulyuchiveyem
labor arbitration committee
left handed twist
lungees
max sth out
mean parameter
metal substitution refining process
methyl phenyl ketone
Middle Ordovician Series
middle-america
mikva
mutual corporation
ossa longum
palings
Partnerships Liability
pearl divers
pentagon
physiological pollution
poietic
positive heteropycnosis
primary pollutants
procedural semantic
protostylids
rangeley lakes
record of work
Resection-Recession
risk-rewards
Rooney
schoenheit
scored card
secure authentication
separately excited generator
shacktown
shark-liver oil
sky parlour
snapper up
splainin'
thurls
Titting
tow-row
traversers
triketohydrindene reaction
trough-shells
weld strain
Wigner-Eckart theorem
yatansin