时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   It was 10:05 Friday night. Her workweek was finally over. Her 40-minute ride on the B train was finally over. She felt exhausted 1, even though she’d been sitting during the whole ride. The subway station escalator wasn't running. She trudged 2 up the 49 escalator steps. She walked the four blocks to her apartment building. As she climbed the two flights to her apartment, she promised herself—again—to move to a ground-floor apartment. She flopped 3 down on her bed and went right to sleep. After breakfast the next morning, she took two loads of wash to the Laundromat. After taking her laundry home, she went grocery shopping. After that, she went to several department stores. She needed a sweater and a winter jacket. She didn't find either. When she got home, she cleaned her apartment. She started making dinner. Her brother called. He asked, "Can you babysit for us tomorrow?"



1 exhausted
adj.极其疲惫的,精疲力尽的
  • It was a long haul home and we arrived exhausted.搬运回家的这段路程特别长,到家时我们已筋疲力尽。
  • Jenny was exhausted by the hustle of city life.珍妮被城市生活的忙乱弄得筋疲力尽。
2 trudged
vt.& vi.跋涉,吃力地走(trudge的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • He trudged the last two miles to the town. 他步履艰难地走完最后两英里到了城里。
  • He trudged wearily along the path. 他沿着小路疲惫地走去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 flopped
v.(指书、戏剧等)彻底失败( flop的过去式和过去分词 );(因疲惫而)猛然坐下;(笨拙地、不由自主地或松弛地)移动或落下;砸锅
  • Exhausted, he flopped down into a chair. 他筋疲力尽,一屁股坐到椅子上。
  • It was a surprise to us when his play flopped. 他那出戏一败涂地,出乎我们的预料。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
A.B.Ed.
aeromonas disease
Alash
albedo component
Allah's House
appended space
applelicious
banana split
blotting-paper
bunsen
by work
cancellatus
captive finance companies
caugheys
cefuracetime
christobalite (cristobatite)
chrome iron
chronophages
citynik
cold cathode fluorescence lamp
counterpulls
custard slice
dairyless
dangerous point clause
dicough
disease process
disemploy
disjunctive conjunctions
fiesty
fighting spirit
filling retraction
footways
formilase
fractional dissolution
free-expansion implosion
gonella
hardening cabinet
Heim-Kreysig sign
interface payload
intrastate offering of stock
it-all
Joel Harris
Kautskyites
kick-killing
Lans.
let on
mabuya multicarinata multi-keeled mabuya
make-up water preheater
microcilium
misspeaks
Mongororo
muleteer
MX-CUF
mycoticopeptic
n.a.b
narrow-gap welding
Nechayevka
negative outcome
nominal screen aperture
omental foramina
patavano
pecham
penicillum roseum link
platelet cofactor
pole bore
poorly graded
pressure source
prototype development system
protrichocyst
pseudo-potential vorticity equation
radiating veins
ratio modulation
re-affiliations
reborns
regular convergence
resource allocation table
restricted connected-speech recognition system
rulings of acquittal
sagapenum
Se155-4
Self-Directed RRSP
sheilas
Simonians
sinds sardine
Skevington's daughter
skin current
slop oil
speed of power
stereo.
subjectively
system of framing
systematize
tacituss
tap(ping) pipe
the classroom
toalipi
treasonists
Uniform Law on Cheques
unpricked
unreciprocated
vertical electric-driven reciprocating pump