时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   In his final years, he rarely talked to anyone. As a boy, he had talked to everyone. He was curious about everything. He asked everyone questions about everything. As he got older, he began to notice something. People didn't answer his questions as often as they used to. Sometimes people didn't answer his questions at all. Many times they answered his question with their own questions: Who knows? Who cares? Are you writing a book? So he gradually stopped asking questions of people. Then he gradually stopped talking to people. After he died, his brother collected his belongings 1, including his computer. One of his computer files was his journal 2. It was over 4,500 pages long. The first sentences were: Why bother talking? People are just too busy to listen. I write because my computer accepts my every word. It never ignores me. It never patronizes me. It never interrupts me.



1 belongings
n.私人物品,私人财物
  • I put a few personal belongings in a bag.我把几件私人物品装进包中。
  • Your personal belongings are not dutiable.个人物品不用纳税。
2 journal
n.日志,日记;议事录;日记帐;杂志,定期刊物
  • He kept a journal during his visit to Japan.他在访问日本期间坚持记日记。
  • He got a job as editor of a trade journal.他找到了一份当商业杂志编辑的工作。
学英语单词
account book
aggregate data
alkali-resistant test tube
angle of attack detector
ariommas
as long again as
aunt fuckers
automanual telephone exchange
Avon Gorge
bath room
biotinidases
black paint
Blepsias
bone-dry body
Bunguran, Kepulauan
byard
call type macro
circus melanoleucos
coefficient of accommodation
composite legal tender
condensed gas dispersoid
council of foreign ministers
cousinette
customize
debach
derring-does
diagonal surface
direct heat source
domiciliations
dominant negative regulation
e-printing
Eastern Illinois University
elie wiesels
em-
engraving wax
entitlement psychology
falls down
follow someone's example
fore and aft tilt
Grand Bassa Pt.
Griesinger-Kussmaul sign
handle catch pin lock
hay stacking cable
hinged plate
holoepipelagic
hursinghar
hydrorhiza
iberian pen.
interschool competition
kapsels
keep up ... spirits
Lamb shifts
left wing tip
loike
Macrozamia spiralis
magneticfilm
medial occipital artery
merostomatas
microprecipitation
midcult
most-popular
motmots
musculi soleus
nanocrystallization
nanoes
natron calk
navicula eta
no score
odd component
PCMCIA slot
Pedicularis cinerascens
photoconsistency
pluviothermic ratio
pownds
property-data
proprietary capital
racemic body
rallicar
re establish
reconciliacion
relict soil
rich acacia
San Pedro de Rozados
sequence welding
soft superconductor
stand sb a drink
stelentrochite
stereomicrographs
strain ellipsoid
subtropical convergence zone
synchornization word
terraza
Tetramethylthiuram
the profession of letters
tumbling bay
uninflammability
unsumptuary
upper sample
vena cysticas
who'd have thunk it
with the result that
Youth League branch