时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   Dylan suddenly wakened 1. He muttered 2, "What happened?" His 90-year-old wife said nothing. Her side of the bed was empty. He asked, "Where are you?" No answer. He walked around to her side of the bed. She was lying on the carpet. He grabbed 3 her by her thin arms and put her back into bed. A while later, he was wakened again. He said, "I'm going to leave you there this time." She said nothing. After a few minutes, he got up. He lifted her back into bed. He put a pillow 4 on the floor. That should help, he thought. An hour later, he was reawakened. Her side of the bed was empty again. He called 911. Paramedics arrived. One pronounced her dead. After interviewing Dylan, he asked, "Why didn't you call us immediately?" Dylan said, "What for? She's fallen out of bed lots of times. It never killed her before."



1 wakened
v.醒来,睡醒( waken的过去式和过去分词 );唤醒,弄醒;(使)觉醒, (使)振奋,激发
  • The child had just wakened. 这孩子刚醒。
  • Nature seems to be wakened from a dead sleep. 大自然似乎从沉睡中被唤醒了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2 muttered
轻声低语,咕哝地抱怨( mutter的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He muttered a curse at the other driver. 他低声咒骂另一位开车的人。
  • She turned away and muttered something unintelligible. 她转向一旁,嘴里不知咕哝些什么。
3 grabbed
v.抢先,抢占( grab的过去式和过去分词 );(尤指匆忙地)取;攫取;(尤指自私、贪婪地)捞取
  • He was grabbed by two men and frogmarched out of the hall. 他被两个男人紧抓双臂押出大厅。
  • She grabbed the child's hand and ran. 她抓住孩子的手就跑。
4 pillow
n.枕头;枕垫;vt.作…的枕头;垫;枕于;vi.靠在枕上
  • He fell asleep as soon as he touched the pillow.他脑袋一碰枕头就睡着了。
  • She was found asleep on a pillow of leaves.有人看见她枕着树叶睡着了。
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Air India
alkaline series
amassers
amphigynous
antigrading
antisudorific
arrive at an agreement
automatic ship class notation
be willing to do sth
bismuth orthophosphate
bog whortleberries
boogie men
Cantábrica, Cord.
capitals of slovakia
cargo tank over-flow protection
China's Securities Regulatory Commission
circumscribed goiter
Clupeoidei
crepenynic acid
desensitisers
dire straitss
dishabilitates
dismissal with prejudice
effective directivity factor
engine room top plate
finding the inverse matrix
florivorous
follow-ups
freedom of speech
from experience
fructus cardamomi
FRV
fuel processing industry
gentle-heart
giant frog
graete
group-call
holding capacity of bin
home-ribbed
hydrogen nitride
immunomechanism
individualist culture
INSEP
insurance fund
keep fair with
legal blindness
line upkeep
location diffusion
Lorrain, Claude
lubbockia marukawai
meanish
milling frolic
Miskitos, Cayos
neighbourhead
neutral reduction
no box type valve body
non-graphic/video terminal
Nord, Dép.du
not have a moment to call one's own
object of assessment
on-market share repurchase
open primary
orthoacid
overpoising
parriott
peaked-lapel
perpendicular iosertion
Petrocosmea
phospharenite
Pilea squamosa
play day
plumb bob vertical
polynuclear leucocyte
pruritus balnea
pubic arch angle
pulsed lidar
regular-tap
ringss
Ruunaa
salicin(e)
sindermann
sinistrous
spels
stack marker
striction
suturing
sux
swine vesicular disease
temporal retina
tenesmic
Thermofor(catalytic) cracking
thio-aldehyde
thiotrophic
tonograph
tree-protector
two cylinder steering gear
unlinked
unsteady separated flow
vory
Vtoroy Kurkl'skiy Proliv
winter dike
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