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
1-benzyl-4-piperidone
acustico-lateral area
adult respiratory distress syndromes
aerokinesis
aircored
altpsm
american social health association
barking spider
battleth
bell mouth ventilator
bellwomen
bioethically
bit of skirt
bite restoration
britz
by bus
chicken cacciatoras
ciliary nerve
co-current contact
coincidence analyser analyzer
Condong-besar, Sungai
convention of school principals
Coronel Moldes
deep rock disposal
deeply in the money
dihydroxypropanone
dispower
distributed cavity klystron
doupt
eduldamer
electric rammer
ethionines
eu-test cycle
exultingly
fault-tolerant logic
fine grained steel
foam-coated fabric
front end control facility package
front running board
galvanized hoop iron
gaseous dissociation
giant cell arteritis
gold tone
goosefoot plant
Grote
guard-forward
h.a.d.
ideal reproducing head
Ipomoea sumatrana
iridises
jack's land
Jagst
jugata
life-web
methylmethacrylates
multilevel addressing
n-butyrophenone
naranas
needle jet
nichola
non-nutritive sweetener
oil-revenues
omnibus cooperative advertisement
overactions
Paradisaedae
parallel-chords
paraplaner
party to
pear sauce
pistacia lentiscuss
plan of power demand and supply
plateform semitrailer
Podocarpium leptopus
precision forging machine
pulls wires
pure copper tube
quench bath
reactor-ready
recuperative tank furnace
redeem one's obligation
round Window
royte
rundalls
Saint Albans Raid
senta
Shavians
sorrowful
speiss
square-end Nicol prism
still-pending
strawberry essence
strawberry ice creams
tafsira
tasgi
terminal part
things concealed
three-wattmeter method
tried on
Urga
women in love
working progress
writ large