时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   He looked at his bank statement 1 for January. How much interest had his savings 2 account 3 earned? There was $1,036 in his savings account. The account had earned all of 11 cents interest in January. He told his wife. She laughed. "That's almost three cents a week," she said. "By December, you'll have enough interest to buy a small cup of coffee." He said that his money wasn't growing at all. "But your money's safe," she said. "You won't lose it. You won't get rich, either. Rich people make money by risking 4 money. You'll never get rich if you play it safe." He said she was right. "I'm tired of playing it safe. I'm going to buy gold. Gold prices doubled in the last four years. My $1,000 will become $2,000. We'll be rich!" She laughed. "'Rich'? $2,000 is hardly rich," she said. He said, "Compared to 11 cents, it is."



1 statement
n.陈述;声明;综述
  • The government will put out a new statement tomorrow.政府将于明天发布一项新声明。
  • Put down your statement in black and white.把你的话用白纸黑字写下来。
2 savings
n.存款,储蓄
  • I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假,那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
  • By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时,他的存款已全部用完。
3 account
n.叙述;帐目;帐户
  • She left out an important item in her account.她的账目漏掉了一个重要的项目。
  • He has made several withdrawals from his bank account.他从银行账户上提了几次款。
4 risking
vt.冒…的危险(risk的现在分词形式)
  • I thanked him for risking his neck for me. 我感谢他为我冒生命危险。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I've been done down once, and I'm not risking it again. 我已经上过一次当,我不想冒第二次危险了。 来自辞典例句
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a prior distribution
A'alī an Nīl, Iqlīm
absolute linear momentum
acute miliary pneumonitis
after construction
anacolia laevisphaera
anting
archbishopship
area of piston
Arrabidaea
attachment slip
base-load power
braking section
C-4-fraction
cad-bait
camenzind
capillary constant correction
carrier's agent
caterpillar lorry
cave in
centropomids
cheesery
chick chorioallantoic membrane
chorda pistillaris
circular electric mode magnetron
deep water way
deflecting amplifier
depreciable property
dipendra
dispersing optics
dry-bulk
electric lift controller
encke
environmental acceptability
eset
forming punch
fused salt scrubber
globalnomic
gourmets
graphics primitive
hare-coursing
heavy duty geared head lathe
high-alumina basalt
Hispano-Moresque ware
house-surgeon
immunosmoelectrophoresis
in another
in reply (to)
institutings
jet setters
knifeblade switch
lapsed gift
long arm of the law
lucius licinius luculuss
Macropodus opercularis chinensis
make reprisal
maryanns
multi-active
navaratra
neoexpressionisms
network status initialization
Notopterygium incisium
number of initial visits
nyctipelagic plankton
Olympian Games
overflow of tears
pages per hour
plumber's itch
pond bottom cultivation
propounds
pushbacks
radzimir
regenerating agent
relieving tool holder
removable direct access storage
rotation-vibration spectrum
rubber boa
sandquist
scheduled sailing time
sedimentation electrification
Sidhuān
spacetime optics
spiroma
St-Marsal
Subcordylodus
subroutine separation
tadig
teamers
tech-related
theory of epigenesis
theory of lateral folding
TNF-BP
trap-door structure
twine reelers
unit of alcohol
unstainable
upper fixed jaw face
wing slot
yates's adjustment
Zatobol'sk
zygomycoses