时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   It was springtime. Elaine's nose was running. Her eyes were itching 1. She asked Jerry to buy some allergy 2 medication. He went to a drugstore. He looked at the allergy medications. He compared active ingredients. He compared prices. He compared expiration 3 dates. He found a non-drowsy house brand. Each pill lasted 24 hours. Ten pills were in the box. He paid $9 for the box. He took the box home. Elaine took a pill. A while later, she felt much better. Ten days later, her allergy was still active. "I need some more pills," she said. Jerry went back to the drugstore. He took the empty box with him. He couldn't find the boxes with just 10 pills in them. Instead, he had to buy a box with 30 pills. It was the same house brand with the same active ingredient. But these pills were self-dissolving. The box cost only $18.



1 itching
adj.贪得的,痒的,渴望的v.发痒( itch的现在分词 )
  • The itching was almost more than he could stand. 他痒得几乎忍不住了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • My nose is itching. 我的鼻子发痒。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 allergy
n.(因食物、药物等而引起的)过敏症
  • He developed an allergy to pollen.他对花粉过敏。
  • The patient had an allergy to penicillin.该患者对青霉素过敏。
3 expiration
n.终结,期满,呼气,呼出物
  • Can I have your credit card number followed by the expiration date?能告诉我你的信用卡号码和它的到期日吗?
  • This contract shall be terminated on the expiration date.劳动合同期满,即行终止。
学英语单词
4'-ethyl-2-methyl-3-piperidino-propiophenone
a compelling figure
accuracy grade
affine evolute
American worm-seed oil
antiphemin
archaeostomatous
archaeosurfaces
articulationes interphalangeae
ask her out
auxiliary appliance for lighting system
bandabust
bank of communications
Bell communication standards
blecher
brain development
breakout phase
Calymperes
Castaneda's staining
CC generated compiler
ceramic sponge
churchhouse
circe sulcata
cold-metal work
consumer orientation
cross channel monitoring
cycleanoline
day sleep
deerfold
died off
Dimension-lumber
direct thermal printing
drying hood
dynamic scan
empressed
Ethiopian Orthodox
Evel Knievel
ever normal granary program
ferruginous matrix
fibrous fracture surface
foreign ministry spokesman
forward command
hatchdoor
heat exchanger outlet
helicopter drop point
hemostatic gangrene
high-voltage
hughesville
international credit clubs
kinzig
lactose tolerance test
like a dying duck in a thunderstorm
lip of pudendum
methacholine chloride
metoxepine
mill for rolling center disc type wheels
misdevout
Moolawatana
morens
nahuel
Navy support element
nonacyclic compound
optical homodyne spectroscopy
osphresis
ostosis
pal(a)eotemperature
palaeopedologists
pelennors
physical assessment
pivottable name
poles of magnet
postestrus
precise definition
pronormoblast
put oneself right
recherche du temps perdu
regroover
rotating disk gage
saint-gall (sankt gallen)
second order filter
see the writing on the wall
segment descriptor identification
semi-automatic hump yard system
Semnopithecus
sinking winch
spar-deck ship
spasmodic dysphonia
standard eleotromotive force
symbol of a unit of measurement
syndetocheilic
tachysporous
taxpayer bailout
three-way classification
time limit attachment
to center
transmitting fork filter
two-diode clamp
use rollers
vuzzo
vwoas
wrist movement