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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ADTS
allotheistic
anguli
ascitess
blimbings
capillary nevus
cellulosic adhesive
Chinese compliments
collector cut off current
communications bill
cross-country cargo carrie
Cyclanthales
default code
diagnosis method by critical value
diaphragm type compressor
direct address first-level address
dismantle the barriers between regions
dole bludger
door for discharging tea
draught extreme
early songs
emergent current
fallover
feelins
ferrodynamometer
food trees
format pattern
fruit mitsumane
gas pressure regulator station
getting on with
ghenting
glaciolacustrine
greater ebb tidal current
grenadin'
hypereutectic cast iron
ice-marginal lake
IWW
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kreatic
lagneia furor
light-spot galvanometer
loss of head due to entrance
MDIPC
meddle or make with
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milk test
motor truck supply
musiques
nasal punch forceps
nonspare
nuclear alignment
optical homing head
parallel running of generators
Patera process
pertroleum
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positions des bras
postglenoid foramina
potassium citrate
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pulse radiation frequency
pyromucic nitrile
rate of frost heave
refractory ramming compound
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septm-
severe weather warning
silt drain
Simply Interactive PC
siphon gage
six fu organs
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Slovak literature
specific level of test
square law characteristic
standard value of production
Staryy Merchyk
step-down transformers
thoughty
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times of the day
toss sth out
toxicity criterion
transplanting rice
trithioformaidehyde
Tsiribihina
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tv broadcasting
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vector supercomputer
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