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 1 her 47th birthday. "I'm 50 years old," she said 3. Her husband 4 said no, she wasn't. She was only 47. She was still a young pup. "I'm not a young pup, and I'm not a spring chicken," she said. "Okay," he said, "but you're also not 50." She said 47 might 5 as 2 well be 50—what was the difference 6? "People look at me and they think I'm 50. Nobody 7 says, 'Oh, you don't look a day over 47.'" He told her that time goes by fast enough. She didn't need to make it go faster. She still had 8 three years of her 40s to enjoy. He gave 9 her a birthday card. She opened it. The card read, "Happy 50th Birthday!" "What's this?" she asked. "I thought 10 you said that I was only 47!" He said, "I looked all over for a Happy 47th Birthday card—they don't make them!"



1 was
v.(is,am的过去式)是,在
  • He said he was right.他说他是正确的。
  • He was cold and hungry.他又冷又饿。
2 as
conj.按照;如同
  • He got work in a hotel as a waiter.他在一家旅馆找到了当服务生的工作。
  • In the hotel,the old men were drinking away as usual.在旅馆里,这些老人和往常一样喝个不停。
3 said
v.动词say的过去式、过去分词
  • He said to me that he could not come.他对我说他不能来。
  • He said to his mother that he would do it by himself.他对他的母亲说他将自己独立做那件事。
4 husband
n.丈夫
  • My husband just lost his job.我老公刚刚失业了。
  • I visited my daughter and her husband.我去看望我的女儿和女婿。
5 might
aux./v.(may的过去式)可能;可以,允许
  • It looks as if it might snow.看起来好像要下雪了。
  • Might I ask a question?我能问个问题吗?
6 difference
n.不同;差异;区别
  • He doesn't know the difference between right and wrong.他是非不分。
  • The difference is so slight,that I can hardly see it.差别很小,我几乎看不出来。
7 nobody
pron.无人,没有任何人
  • Nobody is in the house.没有人在房子里。
  • Nobody knows where she lives.没有人知道她住哪里。
8 had
vbl.have的过去式和过去分词;conj.有
  • I just had a good idea!我有个好主意!
  • The boy had a small branch of a tree in his hand.这个男孩手上拿一条小树枝。
9 gave
vbl.(give的过去式)给予,产生,发表
  • He asked for money and I gave him some.他要钱,我给了他一些。
  • I gave you a map so you wouldn't get lost. 我给你一张地图,这样你就不会迷路了。
10 thought
n.想法,思想,思维,思潮,关心,挂念;v.vbl.think的过去式和过去分词
  • It was just a thought.这仅仅是一个想法。
  • She thought he had a cold.她认为他感冒了。
学英语单词
Alpic
appreciation of difference in depth
arc current
back-up credit facility
beachcombers
betty about
bifurcated E layer
block-diagram
Bose statistics
boundary river
bovver birds
bpa-free
by-pass accumulator
calycocome
choking speed
clean meshes
clown-wagon
coenocyte
concentrant
connector with mixed contact
control of foreign trade
crowat
decay lifttime
decay of activity
degree of asymmetry
demoralisingly
dense wavelength division multiplexing
descend upon
destruction gas chromatography
distribution of grain
El Mansura
electronic-mails
encephalic vesicles
exponential payoff game
femivore
gang boss
gas inder
genus Conyza
gloomiest
herdmate
i'art
indolepopionic acid
informalize
iquiques
jiffin'
leader head
log fire
Mackenite metal
Malakand Division
map platemaking
mathematical software
mootah
mossman
mucoid colony
occupational contraindication
ochronotic arthritis
odonaosteophyte
offer c.i.f.
on the wings
open transaction manager access
orotidine
oxygenated black
pare clip the claw of
passenger cutter
philosophers stone
physodine
polyenergetic
polyn'ya
polynomial acceleration
pouters
prices and incomes policy
primitivities
process lag
protogneiss
radiochemical contamination
rear axle stabilizer
recession of ocular muscles
rectangular layout of streets
rhodexoside
runeweave
sarcostosis
scroteotomy
seabirds
sensitive film
Sitsawk
square shooters
SRFD
standoff target acquisition system
stratigraphical time table
sulibenzone
theater tickets
Tokamak
tootanag
travelling band
universal torsion tester
urea-treated silage
volleyed
waste water utilization
wither on the vine
wordmasters
work under public surveillance
zwingers