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
adenomatoid polyp
affectated
Alai Mountains
aluminizes
Anchosine
ank-
antirecession measures
automatic carding lock
bankone
be ambitious for
binnite
blessbok
bus-tie reactor
calibration factor
Camellia acutissima
cardan axis
carpus (pl. -pi)
conversion
cooper-key
corporate privity
Court of claim
critical codfficient
cryla
descriptionally
desiccator with porcelain plate
down on one's luck
Ensete lasiocarpum
enthalpimetric analysis
Falter apparatus
ferroelectric storages
fixed predetermined value
fraction field
genus Tulostoma
given an edge to
guanylhydrazine
hastatas
haywire wiring
helical resonator
heterostylous
high-occupancy
home-cured
i-thrungen
in course of the years
incoherent scatteering
international number of light
invination
isocurvature
isopeptide bond
ixias
jigsaw puzzles
lemaireocereuss
line deletion
lower pile
major gridlines
marine pharmacology
merkingdoms
miscellaneous fishes
mould release
nanocapacitor
necydalis pennata
neosurugatoxin
Non-Convertible Currencies
non-operative
not worth a continental
occasione
omphalo-mesenteric
open set of points
ordinable
outperforms
palaeohydrogeology
pancreas islets capillaries
panjsher
pick up the threads
plane vibration
podobranchiae
pointed mapping
prefrons
pull crack
raised finish
red-bait
repeator
round ligament of uterus
shock-proof relays
showcard color
silicon-molybdenum cast iron
sixty-fourth note
Smbclient
soil conservancy
stationary reaction member
subassemblage
substantive crime
taenioglossate
thornback ray
torch cooky
tumults
vector register
video theater
water proof match
weeverfishes
well-formedness
well-scrubbeds
yardang