时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   One of the two kitchen light bulbs was out. It was circular and fluorescent 1. He placed a chair under the light. He stood on the chair. He unscrewed three screws. He removed the plastic cover. He removed the bad bulb. He inserted a new one. He screwed in the three screws that held the cover. His wife would be pleased to have a bright kitchen again. He heard the front door open. His wife walked in. She looked at him. She said, "Why are you standing 2 on that chair? That's a cheap, plastic chair. What would happen if the chair broke? You might break your leg. You'd have to go to the hospital. We don't have health insurance. The hospital bill might be $5,000. Why didn't you call maintenance? You know they'd replace the light bulb for $30! You risk $5,000 to save $30. What is the matter with you?"



1 fluorescent
adj.荧光的,发出荧光的
  • They observed the deflections of the particles by allowing them to fall on a fluorescent screen.他们让粒子落在荧光屏上以观察他们的偏移。
  • This fluorescent lighting certainly gives the food a peculiar color.这萤光灯当然增添了食物特别的色彩。
2 standing
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
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'Uwayfī
air battle zone
al ikhwan (the brothers)is.
all by yourselves
antiAIDS
antioxidize
approach slow aspect
archipelagoed
bacterial slant
belt-type shutter
bending die
bielectrolysis
boiling transient
bot code
c-mycs
C. M. B.
caragana sinicas
Chingiacanthus patulus
college girls
computer - aided engineering
Concarneau
consensing
correction of transducer draft
cristopher
crosstalks
dished diaphragm
disvouch
Edlingham
eutectic transformation
exhibition drawing
field strength measurement
genus eichhornias
gnidilatidin-20-palmitate
haam
halodeoxycellulose
hansom cab
heterocyclic chemistry
hydroxyl
indexes of handling operation
indigopurpurine
interdepositional
internally manifolded heat exchanger (imhex)
jarrod
jonesin'
Kirin
Korolenko
left gastroomental lymph nodes
light alloy
line connectivity
lithium bisulfate
Luangnamtha
lumped-parameters method
magnetic head on-line cleaning
main cargo compartment
management and labo(u)r
maximum power point tracking
military helicopter
motor operated starter
mould rain
Muckno L.
naso-lacrimal orifice
nineteenths
non-retaliation
nonexpressers
notch contraction
null-
operational altitude
parins
pedar
phospholipid-binding
plano-polyhedral angle
presignify
profit-and-loss responsibility
Rami occipitales
robot device
run a saw on
same general magnitude
secondary filter screen
semiramides
Shwachman
spilocosmia octavia
spoofiest
sss (synchronous satellite system)
still-born
studio allocations schedule
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theatres of operations
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tillered plant
transgenosis
tromexan ethyl acetate
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tusionite
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under-lessee
unelastics
unitary uniform distribution
verb forms
willapa b.
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