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
accutuned coaxial magnetron
Acehuche
airborne early warning
bad-good
basso profundo
biologic phosphorite
broke
burst in upon
capacity safety valve
category-ii operation
Chignecto Isthmus
chulle
civicize
clamence
Cockpit, Mt.
commercial frontage
critical aging
distinguished for
double linked carbon
dropped beat
efferent limb
Elatostema platyphyllum
electric feed water pump
equilibrium plot
Eurya loquaiana
fat-tailed dwarf lemur
fine - tooth comb
flueless gas appliance
frustrated
garbage furnace
gingerbread-work-garnish
gnarr
grasps the nettle
gray silver
H.H.H.
hard-steel
have a bash
immix
installation fee
interoffice transmission facilities
irregular can
kamenis
Khaleda Zia
Lambert's cypress
letronne
library extension
Lionel Migration
low density gas
low frequency electrotherapy
ma.
maximum travel of tool slide
mccarry
method standard
mm. rotatores longi
monopolar type
moving gravity wave
Musculus extensor
mycotic osteomyelitis
nanowall
NAVSUBMEDCEN
neolight
non-jewish
nourishery
occhi
photomechanical proof
physical labor
predigested food
preparative zone electrophoresis
product nature
purging by crystallization
pusher tray
razeteur
Red Cloud
reduce, reuse, recycle
reduced modulus stress
repression(vogel 1957)
resisto
risk-adjusted return
rotachutes
Sasaram
scheuthauer-marie(syndrome)
self loading and unloading ship
singular endomorphism
slot packing
spaniotoma takahashii
suppletive
terminal hydrophyllic group
The abundance of money ruins youth.
theoretical displacement of power steering pump
thickset
U-turns
unfairly
unhasps
us airplane
usual interest rate
vald
vectorization ratio
Voronezhian
wave tank
Yinmen