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。
学英语单词
adempting
adjustable grid
airport-building
arch floor
aryl oxide
BDS (design basis storm)
benefit of discussion
binary counting
breaking into
bureaucrat capitalist
burgeries
calando
chactids
chequing accounts
choriphyllous
cleon
closed precision cross winding
comparative returns on investments
coston
council tables
culture technique
Datma
direct expression
disc brake
dolphinate
driving equipment for hearth rolls
drop-jaw
dry-plus
dsgn
dualpurpose screwdriver with plastic handle
eddy diffusion
electron gear shifting
end of month
enzyme linked immunosorbent assay
Escherichia intermedium
feast-day
fie
fog target
foreign exchange transfers
gawked
gazon
Gegenbaur's cells
general retailer
Gentianopsis grandis
gestnen
get the laugh over someone
granophyres
hanai
heat formation
Herod Antipas
high-tech industries
homologous fragment
horizontal wires
indican(a)emia
intestinal stenosis
ionizing radiation level meter
isodynamogenic
isopropyl N-(3-chlorophenyl) carbamate
jurimetrics
ketotriose
lentivirus simian immunodeficiency virus
lymphadenhypertrophy
make a display of
misguidednesses
miskent
non-nets
oesses
overhoused
pallet conveyor
pharmaceutical technology
pleoptics
praescriptio acquisitiva
preocclusion
preserved pork
radio urgency signal
rampish
roentgen cinematography
rotating joint
Saussurea ladyginii
school-oriented
selforthogonal
sitiergia
skid polishing
solid bulk cargo terminal
steel-rope tracting belt conveyer
stone bridge
stream input
subsexual
surion
sweating-house
tinfoil capacitor
triply linked
underpad
undigesting
university town
Ushtobe
vapour-set
Venus'-hair fern
Violette
viscosity controller
Wikstroemia lichiangensis
wrappe