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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a man is known by the company he keeps
a-cock-bill
accreted
air reservoir
all-scale model
allnighter
anti-statist
background video
bagboys
ballets
bcrx
biguanides
blowdown pressure (of safety valve)
blue-green alga(e)
Brillon-en-Barrois
bumleaf
calidris himantopus
calling cycle
central warning system
co-publish
cognitive clarity
complete system of functions
constructional set
copper lead bearing
cornin
Cost Synergy
counts among
demigraine
denominally
Döhlau
Dýrastadhir
ecohydrologically
eschewals
examiner
explique
external application
Federal Reserve note
firebox casing
flute spiral
Frederick Henry
galgo
gap-graded concrete
glandulae tartarica
gobiodon oculolineatus
granulous sarcoid
great-great-grandparents
gyrowheel
Haselhorn
heated-air dryer
horned asp
hose nozzle
ideal gas equation
INCAF
kaposi
kiln filling
Lazdijai
luigi cherubinis
mail cart
megabuildings
mesogastrium
methodistss
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modulation doping
module strength
murder-suicide
negative arc
New York cut
non valuable
other-minds
paper-baseds
phyllachora shiraiana sydow
procellariids
programing controller
Rapid Horn
reflector sight
rescue technic
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rip-rap
rwi
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semidilapidation
Seven Pagodas
SHB
shorting link
side keel block
slaty cleavage
speak someone's language
spool intercept buffer
steam pipe oven
sulcul
surface of intersection
sursum
sword-thrust
take a stand on
uk -an
unfretting
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working fluid
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