时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   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
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airborne controlling station
airdry
ampule file
as-weldedcondition
bajadas
battleship
baubles
boundary analysis
chemistry in botanical classification
chemostat
chilliest
cholecystelectrocoagulectomy
chorio-epithelioma malignum
come on in
conjugate prime ideals
contactless coil
corpus haemorrhagicum
corrugated pipe
Costaceae
crew cut
crystal whiskers
dead fault
deviation from voyage route
di-n-butyl adipate
diffraction microscope
divisor of a function
draw round/around
drive-bay
edgels
erbium oxide
excite
fiorelloes
foretop
gametocytocidal
Gould's belt
gracko
guyed portal tower
haemofiltration
hand bilge pump
hatcheted
have a rouse
heeling pump
high-inflations
hoke
improved cross
indexing drive plate
interference microscopy
interpretive execution
island of resistance
Kharoshti
Klyaz'ma
kr.
La Blanca
Litchi chinensis
lose one's hair
loss from difference of price
measuring point for the humidity
mercuric lactate
metal screw with half-round head
mis (abbreviation)
motion-picture camera
net export
net load curve
neutron-diffraction study
New Age traveller
new world beavers
newborn babies
over-assessment
Paisner
patriarchal clan system
plunge wind
propelling machine
putamen (pl. putamina)
Rayonist
re-insertion
real - time communication
recedure
rein ... in
salicyluric acid
Saussurea lyratifolia
sbslsascsks-s
section(natural)
single-header boiler
Steiner point
stillboestrol
strata subcutaneum
supplementary parts
swappings
Telem
thio-TEPA
titanosauriform
toradol
tracheotomised
transexuals
unkenneled
Vickers diamond pyramid hardness test
Všestary
wirls
wood chip carrier
Y-engine
yang ch'in
Yu-shima