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
7-Stigmastenol
a selfie
abalo
Abangayo
Abihail
actual antenna area
aerodynamics simu1ation
air-flow receptor
aminocyclopropane
an obtuse angle
arithmetic operators
azogeramine
backbone motion
Bauchi
blackade-runner
broomrape
Burney
carpetbag steak
Carpetnetter
catry
collinsia
common shared resources
complexing action
constant speed motion
deadlocks
dip machine
disrupting explosive
e & e compartment
eat ass
eating disorders inventory
effect of deviations from optimum allocation
elevating device
elsons
emergency-services
Emprosthotony
euonymus subsessilis sprague
extemporization
fabaceaes
fairchildite
Fimbristylis fusca
flash-over protection
genus ligularias
gesturelike
glow character indicator tube
grain combine harvester
harten
have a say in the matter
ichomage
if relevant
incumbent president
instrument pig
interpretation maps
itriglumide
knife-file
knudsons
L'Abbé
Licuala fordiana
line of magnetic field
local regulations and rules of water
magnetic time relay
Marangoni
miacid, miacis
micturition reflex
multiplication of fast dislocations
nicolles
no-load induction
nutrient translocation
obesity syndrome
on-hold advertising
os frontale
parkinsonia floridas
Phaseolus aureus
primary climax
prunella seignetti
rainscapes
reduce production
respifral
Ryazan
selfpub
semi-hard rock
Shughnis
skiarea
somatic embryogenesis
spinal puncture
St.Louis encephalitis
stir the fire
taggianum
textolite wedge
threatener
thuidium glacuinum (mit.t)mitt.
to-cut
Tootoos
transmission optics
transponder set
transversus auricularis
tzipi
us sf
visceral cranium
voucher schemes
wear compensation
Wells' facies
zero teeth difference type output mechanism