时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   It was 10 a.m. He was snoring 1. The phone rang. It was his wife. "Are you still sleeping?" she asked. He said no. "Is that the truth?" she asked. Okay, he was sleeping, he said. "You said you wouldn’t sleep in anymore. You said you'd get up at eight and write all day long. You said you would write a book. We need money! How can you make money when you're sound asleep?" She hung up. He got up. Write, he thought. Write what? He had nothing to say—nothing that would interest anyone. Thousands of books are published 2 every year. Few of them make big money. He had never been published—not even a letter to a newspaper. But he couldn't find a job. What else could he do? Writing was the only thing he could do halfway 3 well. But write a best seller 4? He went back to sleep.



1 snoring
打呼噜,打鼾( snore的现在分词 )
  • I could hear Paul snoring in the next room. 我听得见保罗在隔壁房间里打呼噜。
  • Pushing the door open a trifle, he could hear only snoring inside. 他又走到仆婢室的门前,把门轻轻地推开,只听见屋里的鼾声。 来自汉英文学 - 家(1-26) - 家(1-26)
2 published
v.出版( publish的过去式和过去分词 );(在互联网上)发表;公布;在报刊)发表
  • The findings of the commission will be published today. 委员会的调查结果将于今天公布。
  • His diary was not published during his lifetime. 他的日记在他生前未曾发表过。
3 halfway
adj.中途的,不彻底的,部分的;adv.半路地,在中途,在半途
  • We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路,天就黑了。
  • In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上,最忌讳的是有始无终。
4 seller
n.售货者,畅销品
  • I hope for this book to become a best seller.我希望这本书会成为一本畅销书。
  • She drove a hard bargain with the seller.她狠杀卖主的价。
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a blanket of sth
acetogeneses
after twelve
alignment diagnostic
ambulance corps
angiologies
antiradical
antiulcerogenic
Apractognosia
aster ericoidess
blenderizes
Bourdon pressure gage
breast bone saw
catalog management
Chasseral
chip curl
Cineform
communities
Coragoxin
count down
crown-of-thorns
de jong and bouman photographs
decussroium
deliberate maiming
deterministic finite tree automaton
divvied
dune belt
effective Hall Parameter
elastic theory
electric machine for tropical use
electric-shocks
electricity system
electro-chemical reactor
exhilarate
Faliero
Ffs
floating pontoon wharf
foot rests
foreshore
Gempei War
generalized polynomials
gigamp
handywomen
hemophilus ducrevi
hernial covering
heterophone
induced radioactive nuclide
janking
land tax collected in kind
Las Peňas
late fee
lee-boot effect
Lefini
looping structure
low-growth
macrocryst
Madrid interband offered rate
managerial goals
marbletopped
mcanarney
McKnight L.
mentsch
Met.E
microphytophagous mites
nanolaminates
Nazirite
net shaker
nitroanilide
nonlinear parametrization
Ollerton
outfinessed
p-(p-toluoyl)benzoic acid
para-site
periblast
play a waiting game
pogostemon cablins
pollution,contamination
precaudal plate
presentation model
pro fanity
red bayberries
redundancy check
retzina
Rhamnus croceus
roller bin gate
secancy
send someone off
side frequency
slipped his wind
soal
steel plate galvanized
sto gate dielectric
Stop loss limit
traffic surveillance and control system
trifoveolate
tursiopss
TV-ad
unturns
Utta
Valle del Cauca
vernalised
vrindi