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
active loss
ad hoc method
adhesion of labia minora
Aetolian
arcing-ground suppressor
arthula formosana
basilar bone
blanket assembly
broncho-spirometer
call square
carbon budget
code space
common battery toll switchboard
compound heterozygote
conductophore
constult
conventional prospective touch voltage limit
correctly-placed material
Currans
data masking
decrepitans
demand-backward pricing
density of solid particles
dog-teeth
double way rectifier
dual memory theory
dynamic statistics
ecopathogen
em square
en-routes
expansion-pressure testing apparatus
fixed bank
Flossie
foot position
Forbidden fruit is sweet
francois mauriacs
freight policy
friction duty
full circle spear
gas-sphere
hawktree
henotheisms
hpt
hypo-inosemia
internal priorities
Jacques Peaks
kaliphs
kernville
Khargon
lepra mixta
levarterenol
living street
lopexes
masie
neurokine
noise equivalent power density
notch ring
obsede
optical radiation standard
PAM-CL
past-duest
penitote
pincushion
Pitt, William
plasma jet
pneumatic belt sander
Poa gammieana
population regression function
preacheth
prenatal culture
public debates
remote handler
retinotopy
rivets for name plate
rotor stability
San Francisco del Oro
satellite subsystem design
Saxifraga doyalana
self-operated flow regulator
singlino
slave motor
sneak attack surprise
snowed in
soldering gun
sonne's dysentery
SPINTCOMM
spring type self starter
stable-companion
sublingual fovea
Symphurus
teamed
techa
treaties of versailles
triad gangs
Trierweiler
undischargeable
unstudiedly
Urtosal
vicgoria blue
whelve
worldling
ziphioid