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
African holly
android
archdioceses
aroints
assia
auntness
autoregressive distributed lag model (ardl model)
Balarampur
basement lineation
Beep-Pager
bell-metal ore (stannite)
bizman
body of rod
Botomovu
chitinous
chloracetophenone poisoning
cittas
Coerney
colic biliary
concrete finishing machine
consular certification
cuscuta of the beet
diacaryophase
dual-permeability system
entification
epoxy ethane fumigation
family phalacrocoracidaes
fellness
furballs
fusiform colony
gabbro-granite
got away with
Gwegyi
half-word block
hand coding
handshoes
harrod-domar growth model
Heeswijk
Hemobartonella
Henleyville
hhcy
historical phenomenon
infinite term
iron sekaninaite
ITD (initial temperature difference)
Itrabo
kafir corns
kelosomus
Laffite, Jean
landolfo
lift winch
linolic acids
live cable test cap
low speed morse
lucilia
main orbit
manis javanica
match-girls
maximum velocity ratio
minimum-wage
mixed-settler extractor
montier
nose of wing
not hay
oblique lighting
occassional shower
ochre suppressor
open spaces
osteosis eburnisans monomelica
paracladura flavoides
pecorino
peep-shows
perigee
pituitary bodies
placental chorionic gonadotropin
porcus
pragmatics
pretexte
protalbumose
Pv.
re-imaging
reasonably priced
register, index
rubber slat mud conveyer
safety remote control equipment
saltsplitting capacity
scheme of finite type
secohmmeter
selection by failure
septaria porcellana
shit-brindle
soft rock
Sorbus pohuashanensis Hedl.
tooth gap angle
trigger triode
truxillines
unit pipe system
viride
wapper
well-guided
wire tying machine
wurtman