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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acanthopterygian fish
adjusting lock nut
altitude characteristics
ameliorant
antenna changeover
bannerman
cessor
Chalcid-fly
charge transfer device
combatant command
competent surveyer
conicograph
coniine picrate
conscious application of laws
consolidation and merger
convicy
cricketings
crust breaker
cyclic code decoding
cyclopropyne
Dactylorhiza fuchsii
davers
dechenite
differential recovery
double kill
ectomeres
elkstones
endocrinological system physiology
fell field
fifty thousand
filled polyisoprene rubber
final checking
flat-plate x-ray pattern
flogopite (phlogopite)
Fog and Mist
friction peeler
Friedrichsthal
gas entrainment property
glacial stage
granulato-
groundcloth
high-speed centrifuge
hirmoneurinae orientalis
injury of phrenic nerve
intermittent unit
isopentyl
legalizing
Liddes
lisle thread
magneto-band effect
majority holding
maneuver point
manometries
mathematising
matrix switch
mediterranean regime
minimum current interrupting rating
natural monuments
network DVR
network language
neumayer screen
Nyavka
Nzilo
OCDMS
Oda-gawa
Old Dutch
ordering machine
outlet line
overconcentrate
palpebral emphysema
partitioned-area reservoir data
pentomer
permise
phialophora radicicola
Prenzlau
proximal intestine
rafsi
rail strai-ghtener
random experiments
reattaching flow
rorer
screen conveyor
service book
shergold
side projection
soil feedback information
sowish
SPS (serial-parallel-serial configuration)
standard zone
starsnouts
succinanilide
transit flight
tributyltin
troughed core box
two-way variance analysis
under one's hat
urban public transport sign
vector location
viola verecunda a.gray
wending
woolly mullein
work procedure