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
4MH
a well - oiled machine
actual inventory
Adelebsen
aerial capacity
annual growth
antireformers
ap-
arctic poppies
artabotrne
audio coils
bactericidal
black snake
Bomlitz
Borstal system
Chattooga County
cheat grass
Chisasibi
cod - liver oil
cog-wheel pump
cold light lamp
crankshaft starting claw
Dauriya
dentology
Dhabarau
dimension of a vector space
distress call
drawing induced losses
drinkmore
droplet mass transfer coefficient
ecosystem management
engine cleansing agent
environmental implication
findx
fine-structure splitting
fracastorius
full circle girder erecting crane
genogram
Greifendorf
Gull L.
helical structure
high-pressure flange
hybrid type
incorruptly
inflatable raft
interpolygon
intersonic
irreducible water saturation
journalism of information
Kirchdorf am Inn
lithargite (litharge)
loro account
make an appointment with sb.
make-up and discharge system
malakar
marathoner
maryknoll
mazzocchi
microprocessor-controlled terminal
mode of onset
multi electrode valve
N-Methyladrenaline
natal down
natural road
neucleolysis
noise protector
non ohmic resistor
Ohio, State of
optimum reorder point
paralytically
peroxynitrous acid
pineider
portsea
positive real function
postglacial age
preheat treatment
processor chip
radius-truing device
reskuing
right to pasture
russian-language
sacrifice sale
sectio cadaveris
simple binding
smooth winterberry hollies
spark advance
station working plan
sunfished
theoteleological
to learn by heart
universalises
unshewing
uphoist
vestigial sideband transmission system
volcanic wind
volhynite
volle
vortex hazard
wind tunnel noumenon
wrongdoers
X-ray crack detector