时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   "We must spend less money on pools this summer," the mayor 1 said. The city won't open four of 20 pools. It will shorten 2 the swim season by two weeks. It will shorten daily pool hours. It will close pools on Mondays and Tuesdays. It will reduce the number of lifeguards. It will reduce the amount of water in the pools by 50 percent. "Everyone knows that a half-full pool is better than an empty pool," said the mayor. It will remove all of the diving boards. "That way nobody will get hurt diving into a half-full pool," said the mayor. It will shorten the bathroom hours. Pools will be open from 11 to 6. Bathrooms will be open from 12 to 4. "People will have to 'hold it' when the bathrooms are closed," said the mayor. "Nobody better pee in the pool. Our lifeguards wear sunglasses that detect 3 yellow water."



1 mayor
n.市长
  • The new mayor said he would clean the city up.新市长说,他要整顿本市。
  • The mayor hurried into his office,brushing off the reporters.市长赶快走进办公室,拒不接见记者。
2 shorten
vt.弄短,缩小,减少
  • Minor accidents can shorten the life of a car.小事故会缩短汽车寿命。
  • My dress is too long I must shorten it.我的连衣裙太长了,我得把它截短些。
3 detect
vt.察觉,发现;探测
  • I can detect signs of improvement in your thinking.我可以察觉出你思考问题方面的进步。
  • Their instruments can detect the slightest vibration.他们的仪器能探测出极微弱的震动。
学英语单词
2-hydroxy methyl furan
abkhazian
acetphenolpicolin
airtraffic
all living things
and/or
arithmetic value
autotrophic bacteria
azoalkane
battleships
benzo red
big sandy r.
big-three
calopogon tuberosums
cepaeas
chemical sedimentation
chiasmata
closing simultaneity
cloth fast black b
co-current(parallel) operation
cockmuncher
commodity considered as a use value
corners of backcourt
cornyebacterium diphtheriae
Crestocypridea
deluge of questions
diversionary depth change pattern
dommie
Doxtriferron
dress-up apparel
dysthymics
e-number
ecolabellings
effective cash cost
eppie
festilogies
fillo
fine-tuned universes
formocresol
gastrelcosis
Gilbert White
infant car seat
inter-lending
interconnection constraint
intradermal injection
JN (jam nut)
Kingussie
Koryukivka
latent heat of phase change
library facility
life index
linear behaviour
machine error
made a long nose
merchandise sales
mineral licks
minimum average cost
movin'
national circuit
noordzeekanaal (north sea can.)
normal interest
oil-processing units
oil-skin
one's elder
one-point discrimination
paper space
para-phenylene diamine
per cent of early wood
Phyllagathis erecta
pleurogenic pneumonia
pocket cartoon
porcelain basal bodies
post-oil
printing surface
producing horizon
pupil reflex
rappeling
read punch unit
red-noise phenomenon
regush
reserve for undistributed interest earnings
roadeo
root-bark of peony
scenedemine
Schoenobiinae
selected poems
side-valve-type engine
silent arc
stamfords
steam-generating bank
sunrise industries
t'ai ch'ang li i y?an
take coals to Newcastle
tupaiid
ulanovas
unwaxy
van eycks
van Gieson's stain
ventral median fissure
weathered gas
Whoser
yarn measuring drum