时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   The apartment doorbell rang. Two men were there to clean out the kitchen and bathroom vents 2. Lou invited them in. One man took a ladder into the bathroom. The other man took a ladder into the kitchen. They removed the vent 1 grills 3 from high on each wall. They stuck a vacuum hose into the vents and sucked out the dirt. One man washed both vent grills in the kitchen sink. The men replaced the grills. Lou was talking to the man in the kitchen. He forgot about the man in the bathroom. The man in the kitchen finished. He took his ladder outside. The other man appeared. He also carried his ladder out. They both said goodbye. Lou went back to the bathroom. Why was the door closed, he wondered. He opened the door. He looked at the toilet. The seat was up. Had that guy peed in his bathroom?



1 vent
n.通风口,排放口;开衩;vt.表达,发泄
  • He gave vent to his anger by swearing loudly.他高声咒骂以发泄他的愤怒。
  • When the vent became plugged,the engine would stop.当通风口被堵塞时,发动机就会停转。
2 vents
(气体、液体等进出的)孔、口( vent的名词复数 ); (鸟、鱼、爬行动物或小哺乳动物的)肛门; 大衣等的)衩口; 开衩
  • He always vents his anger on the dog. 他总是拿狗出气。
  • The Dandelion Patch is the least developed of the four active vents. “蒲公英区”在这四个活裂口中是发育最差的一个。
3 grills
n.烤架( grill的名词复数 );(一盘)烤肉;格板;烧烤餐馆v.烧烤( grill的第三人称单数 );拷问,盘问
  • Backyard barbecue grills could be proscribed. 里弄烤肉店会被勒令停业的。 来自辞典例句
  • Both side inlets have horizontal grills and incorporate impressive fog lamps. 两侧进气口的水平烤架并纳入令人印象深刻的雾灯。 来自互联网
学英语单词
a drop in the bucket
admissible load
ailish
airborne geochemical exploration
angina septica
arteriae epigastrica superior
automatic exposure control system
blind cover
bones of foot
Bou Azzer
broadseal
buttress zone
Canxixe
chamber of commerce
checkered steel plate
Chimonobambusa armata
chokedar
Cloonfad
clyve
coal mine
colo(u)r vision
colony for investment
commingled yarn
communicableness
crunchier
cylinder mixer
delapril
digladiates
dispropriated
DIVADS
doany
dominance system
drain-body junction
eternal law
evisceration of orbit
feed formula
field reversal
financial resource
formal-actual parameter correspondence
FSM (fine striped memory)
glomeratas
Haines's formula
harrelsons
hematogeneous
Heusenstamm
interaction cross section
intermediate frequency furnace
Jacques Monod
john smiths
karyolymph
kick-stepped
knockahs
knot torus
lanestenyl
lepidoblastic texture
liberal constructionist
lites
loom mechanism
mani-pedi
medical welfare
metroprolol
mine loading mass
neodymium glass laser rod
non-governmental agency
Norddal
otological
partly paid share capital
peromelic monster
plane table triangulation
pontoon-tank roof
portuguese dance
program interaction
pupillogram
push someone to the wall
reventilate
romper suit
root cause
rossetter
serial communication controller
serial plate camera
Sicilian rose
skunkworks project
slack-keys
southwesterlies
stone crusher
stored grain insects
t'iao tuan kung
tax on buildings
telegraph signal
Trece Martires
triamide
triethyl-carbinol
tuymans
unprofor
urgency call
vane relay
Velefique
ventral diaphragm
vertical circle level
waitrons
wool-jersey
zonen