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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-polis
adenoma acinosum
adept at
Adindow
afforming
Aktas Dāgh
alternative remedy
analytical activity
antiboreal faunalregion
anticoyote
antiestablishment
atomizing valve
Birchington
broadcast mediums
clearance certificate
clotheshorse
compact disc - write once read many
consagra
constringency
cytoexudation
deut-
dextroisomer
digiloxose
dispersionless
double density floppy disk
E-HT junction
forty-niners
gendemen
gubernaculum testis
hemohydraulics
hemophagocytic
heteropodous
histocompatibility complex
horizontal-type compressor
hydroxytyramine
interface strength
jolliet
kamina
karma month
karst aquifer
keytop
Kronprins Christian Land
La Laja
lady's waist
leucoencephalitis
level of details
luprops cribrifuous
mackley
margaritatus
meiosis anaphase
mercad
midback
multi stage storage pump
nonthermalized
oil coat
only-element-of-chain
ostinato
Paget's cells
peak-load generator
photoelectric turbidimeter
plain coupler
pneumatic dial
pneumectomies
powdered adhesive
preprogastrin
Preston, C.
proton-precession magnetometer
pseudostroma
ptonoyion and transferring of employee
pulmonic acid
radio navigational device
rain date
Rawlins
red dead nettle
repayment analysis
response to rudder force
return status code
Riemann zeta function
rigid link
RMCC (remote control channel)
Rödeby
sea leg
sententiously
sestet
simple multiples
sperable
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starboard navigation light
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storkbird
superabundances
Tan Hiep
the scoop
toe joint
total cost of power production
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich
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wief
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Zilaiskalns
Zoarces