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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absconding debtor
accidental radiation injury
additional layer
arched concrete dam
array element value
beta-testings
bilge suction box
body shape appearance
caldas
car part
carcinogenesis
carpetmunchers
cesium plasma
character correlation
characterical
chill harden
conditional responses
cramer-von mises goodness of fit test
cyrtocyst
D'yachenkovo
Darbyshire spectrum
devoicings
dig one's feet in
efficient equilibrium
electronic antineutrino
ellerson
engineering departmental interface control technique
engrammic
environmental friendly design
Eurasian nuthatch
evershed
feedbacking
fiscal instruments
fluxile
fringes
gauge tie bar
grating polychromator
harlots
heat-insulating layer
hexagonals
inclination of cusp
incretory gland
Isachne globosa
knickknacks
lath bricks
lightly-armeds
lmx
LRMTS
lunar calendars
machine save
make the beds
metamivan
microcavitation
minispheres
moving armature geophone
niggerbabble
nylon-base insulator
one-way clutch of hydrodynamic torque converter
online platform
oxy flux cutting
paintshops
pass-throughs
Paulhac
pechams
phthivasid
pipedream
pneumococcal arthritis
polypus hydatidosus
precleaned
predefined function
press cutting agency
pressure control equipment
pressure release
propagation blank
proteometabolism
purple amaranths
pyrocatechuic acid
pyrotechnic disconnector
reexportation
reinsurance ceded abroad
relief port
resale carrier
Salvationer
sample household budgets
see above
slump buster
spark plug engine
spectral vapor lamp
splashplate
stoppage in transitu
sum of cubes
titanium getter
toothbrush structure
tree-string structure
turkey oaks
unidentified target
universal grinding attachment
Valea Lungǎ
Wade's snppositories
whale suckers
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