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》
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actogram
adonose
amorphous physics
ampler
analeptin
anniellids
anti-drip
aotearoas
Aralia cordata Thunb
arc r.
argentate
astrometric right ascension
auto-regulation
aw
bangin
barricadoing
Baunani
be heavier than air
Bilijodan
blaine l.
bolted-type separable connector
boosting the competitiveness
carcinoma myxomatodes
carpels
Castle Bolton
clock vines
closed return bend
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
conques
cookish
decidency
depilating
developing countries certificate of origin
dilly-o
drying tube
electromigrated
electronic beam leveling unit
embryotoxic
equivalent extension
ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid
exarid
export mode
favorer
full additive method
great-tit
gunned
Haehimycin
heptametric
immersion-scanning
implicit variable
inoperational
inspecting order
item bank
lactiferous
lateral oscillatory characteristic
Lepturus repens
long-spined bullheads
mean flow-rate
mechanical programmer
Megalotinus
mesoxyalyurea
metogest
multilayered network
neval
Nguni
nonostiolate
Ocean Cargo Clearance Authority
one time with another
opaque atmosphere
pavement roller
pelviperitonitis
pendulum astrolabe
phone phreakdom
phyterythrin
pickup unit
pipitone
plant sterols
polar formula
Public key.
pyruvonitrile
receiverships
ring-shaped rotor
Round L.
sacralege
secondary yield
slanderously
social democratic government
South Hd.
sportfish
subunit construction
sulcus interdemius
surface contact lift
the discharge of a debt
treefish
triamylose
TV oscilloscope
typed memory object
upper yield stress
Valjunquera
Vansittart B.
Vauchamps
Zambianize