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。
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aevum
amanita vernas
anti-smuggling patrol boat
antimicrowave
apons
archytas
asadero
baggonet
banana money
Bhargavi
bias cutter
biphenol
blanketed with steam
Blinnenhorn
bring off something
bucket chain unloader
calibration-service specification
cole vegetables
colour range of indicator
concrete products
crossman
cutaneous histoplasmosis
daranide
dewatering bin
donning
electrostatic field intensity
extensor postural thrust
external auditory canal curet
extraneous earnings
feed valve
fibrous glass reinforced plastics
forward power
franklin roosevelts
free hit
Gedritite
ghostley
Gradgrindian
guns
homeoviscous adaptation
howcatchem
Huygens' principle of superposition
in the lee of
Inflation hedge
internal adjudication
Jacobi-equation
joint action by the contracting parties
Kavaphis
large capacity car
lateral inclined tomography
lead-in clamp
linguists
low temperature absorption heat pump
main chimney flue
marmot
melamine-alkyd resin adhesive
memory time
movable head disk memory
multiple time-series
nerveless
non-addressing
noncoherent fsk
nonunity
oscillation direction indicator
Pars nasalis pharyngis
perihelic conjunction
perrelli
pirandamine
plastic film condenser
promise oneself
pto shaft clutch
renewal of authorization to use
rice-tomato-beef
roland de lassuss
roomlike
rotary piston vacuum pump
Rögnitz
satined
scavenging compressor
selected point on the cutting edge
silicon alkyl
single-pressure operation
small businesses
sneaded
speckle method
Steinman, David Barnard
sum velocity
swedes
to fry
Toad R.
trimethoprim(TMP)
ultrawealthy
under-freight
unrestricted element
vasostomy
vetical intensity of geomagnetic field
vibratory bowl feeder
vibratory stimulus
watershrew
wired program
yea-and-nay
yoctocoulombs
Zijpe