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
adder circuits
aetl
ammerce
amount of deviation
Andes lightning
animos
appropriate
Argentum(Ag)
artillery prime mover
bar with
be all eye
binary touch-tune system
biological prototype
bipotentiometric titration
boletus reticulatus
brazing rod
brown recluse spiders
burnt-sugar
Cumbric
cutting direction
cyatholipid
Dalmatian coastline
dampening machine
data transaction
debismuthization
distadentis
DSSCS
Earsham
elastin disease
electron shells
Eriocaulon bilobatum
external-bruning ram
filamentlike
get a haircut
hagiolaters
hand-level
Havensville
Hearing cell
heavy metals pollution
Hoybergodden
ibn hanbal
inter muscula bone
karawang (krawang)
legspins
machwe pan
marcall
medicalised
metagonimiasis
method of induction
method of orthogonal functions
micrometeoroid shielding
mine lighting
minute-sequence urography
mog-shade
mono-type metal
munidopsis verrilli
Nasalis larvatus
nebacumab
normal-sized image
Norway House
osteolepid
photodichroic
photographic emulsion speed
prime-rate
procedure declaration part
pseudopleuronectess
Purley shale
quarts
quinoline thiocyanate
radio escutcheon panel
reducing firing
rehabbed
remove information
rest-pocket
Saint-Simonians
satellite lifetime
shahis
slapback
spittled
SPO2
stow in block
stowing capacity
subclutter visibility
task-oriented language
tectonic generation
teline
tension washer
testing well
thio-keto-pentose
thymolphthatlein
togrog
translabyrinthine approach
Ulëtovskiy Rayon
unlawful pawning
unprotected field
utilization of petroleum
Wadhurst
water electrolysis
width of waterway
within spitting distance
yachtmen
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