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
-logia
a blanket of sth
alpha privativum
anti-rational
antilove
bamfolin
Barr Smith Ra.
be rad
Bylchau
Caesalpinia caesia
calls your name
camptonite
carbon-beam concrete
CDAI
charging water system
clay gall
coal mining explosive
combined statement of cash receipts and disbursement
composite compressibility of reservoir
conveyor trip switch
coumestrol
Craigellachie Nature Reserve
credit-bearings
deflation policy
differentiation positioning
disfinger
disforms
endocapillary
eryngos
established custom
ewerts
faintise
fisherman's association
foreappoints
foundation tie rost
gamma radiography
Gasterochismatinae
glucuronic acid residue
good-doer
handjob
heat conducting medium
heighths
herzegovina (hercegovina)
hyperophthalmopathic
indeterminate vowel
indirect refrigeration system
karst environment
lead-pot furnace
lucanus swinhoei
Lucullus
macroshot
Metachlamydeae
mouzas
mulagenize
multi-language
multiregulated
mural kidney
nagavator
Neo-houttuyninum
network file access protocol
offending team
ovarian cysts
paleoenvironments
partargo
perished goods
periton?um viscerale
permagnag
phase slowness
Piscacek uterus
piston-type rotary pump
plug in type
postpartum pituitary necrosis
Pritchardiopsis
ray projector
reserve power station
residue production
returned sales account
Robert
sample arithmetic mean
schedule of terms and conditions
shacks up with
shooting-spree
signal ability
signal enhancement shallowlayer seismograph
silicotuberculosis
Skimmia melanocarpa
sordariomycete
step by-step switch
supervisory control relay
swarmed
task attribute
technobabbles
thumbpot
trilete aperture
uneffused
unstomachable
Uzunbulak
wonderlandish
woolcot
work-rest
yamahas
yosemite toads