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
学英语单词
al-bira
amylometric
bernoulli statistics
Bougouanou, Dép.de
brain mushrooms
cadwelding
Canadarians
cash advances
checkout
chucklesome
cledonomancy
coinquinate
Cold Comfort Farm
congenital hemangioma
continental platform
current force
current-limiting relay
date-nut bread
decimal overflow trap
diacyl-glycerol
dibutyl-para-cresole
differential feed
dolina
donmar
extraprofessional
family income and expenditure
far infrared heater
fatuitous
fissionable special
floating base support
floating member
Fortmond
foundation weave
frost thawing
full expander operation
Garlstedt
gas-line
goofs around
grading certificate
GZTS
Hausdorff dimension
Hendrik Verwoerd
high tension current
in the senes of
k'ang hsi
Kildare
knock off one's feet
koktaite
L type shield
langential-velocity component
lebonnet
loopa
M. H. D.
main compartment-line
malcolm stocks
MDiv, M.Div
methylhydantoin
micromachine
monaru
monostichs
Mosjφen
neox
nicotine replacement treatment
nitchkia tuberculifera kusano
Odivelas, R.
olenecamptus taiwanus
Ong Doc, Song
Oorya
pidginizing
pigilanidotriose
powassan virus
prepayments
pseudoephedrines
pseudologia fantastica
puffs away
purothionine
puts in for
rectifier for charging battery
remote measuring device for cargo tank
right wing tip
row column effect
salle dattente
saugeye
second stage annealing
securitization of debt
spin scanning horizon sensor
stabilization of currency
sulfur sugar
suspensor
TDMC
telecommunication system
telescopic pipe
tempesing air
tenderloin district, tenderloin section
towing-path
true supply price
tuberosity of cuboid bone
Tutaguana
vent pipe system
went behind
western samoa (samoa)
woman writer