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
a balancing act
airborne emergency medical center
anonymity
anvil roller
bandiness
best screenplay
Botnaheidhi
brown clay ironstone
bursae trochanterica subfascialis
cettiid
chaetophobia
Chromiferous-Clinochlore
chuck spindle
circuit of the cells
cleyff
collyrium hydrargyi oxycyanidi
columnar stem
combined drill abd mill machine
come back
congregate
cost of depreciation
dangereux
delivery-stroke
dibutyl tin laurate
dilemma
dimethyldichlorosilance
dock leveler
dropped-scone
dynamic coefficient subgrade reaction
East Langton
east-northeast
explosive mixture
Fanning's equation
faulknor
fibreglass-reinforced metal
forced expiratory volume in one second
gas cycling
global irradiation
grewelle
Grt.
guggulipid
Gwaram
hastatest
Hebeloma
higher than Gilderoy's kite
Hitcham
holford
i-gastliche
isoentropic compression
isopterygium minutifolium
james scott connorss
Japan Machinery Federation
latex finger cot
leggatts
lever-and-screw coupling
liberomotor
Loquilocon
luxur
machoistic
moulding-sand mixture
national enquires
New England press ham
non-tacky toner
nonregulated discharge
offset section
outer circumferential lamella
oviculated
pentalenyl
plastic lining
Pomme de Terre R.
portwood
product detector
read write
record amplifier
relief-map
reserve ratio requirement
roark
s-method of multiple comparisons
scombroid
screen function
secondary calcining
shape element
slope break
Streettalk
sun parlour
super-refractory
supplementary unemployment benefit
synovial(fluid)
tenth Muse
timber cage
timber cofferdam
total power system
unconscious neglect
unimpugned
unsensationalised
up someone's street
Vinylite
warbey
Windows Powered NAS
wireimage.com
wireless operators
yellow-weed