时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   A dead bird was on the kitchen floor. Sam had left a "present" again. Sam was their black cat. He hunted at night. He was a good hunter. He brought home birds and lizards 2. Usually he left them outside on the patio 3. Sometimes he brought them into the house. Ted 1 didn't mind. He was proud of his hunter cat. But Molly minded. "This cat is killing 4 innocent animals," she told Ted. He said, "But that's the nature of cats. They're born killers 5." Molly didn't care. She told Ted to stop the killing. "These animals are wild," she said. "They might have diseases. Caroline might catch a disease from one of these dead animals. Do something, please." Caroline was their young daughter. Ted didn't want to lock Sam in the house at night. That would be cruel. There was only one thing to do. Ted tied a bell around Sam's neck.



1 ted
vt.翻晒,撒,撒开
  • The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
  • She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。
2 lizards
n.蜥蜴( lizard的名词复数 )
  • Nothing lives in Pompeii except crickets and beetles and lizards. 在庞培城里除了蟋蟀、甲壳虫和蜥蜴外,没有别的生物。 来自辞典例句
  • Can lizards reproduce their tails? 蜥蜴的尾巴断了以后能再生吗? 来自辞典例句
3 patio
n.庭院,平台
  • Suddenly, the thought of my beautiful patio came to mind. I can be quiet out there,I thought.我又忽然想到家里漂亮的院子,我能够在这里宁静地呆会。
  • They had a barbecue on their patio on Sunday.星期天他们在院子里进行烧烤。
4 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
5 killers
凶手( killer的名词复数 ); 消灭…者; 致命物; 极难的事
  • He remained steadfast in his determination to bring the killers to justice. 他要将杀人凶手绳之以法的决心一直没有动摇。
  • They were professional killers who did in John. 杀死约翰的这些人是职业杀手。
学英语单词
adhesive bonding fixture
adultrant
allowable use
anti-transmit receive tube
Australized
automatic external standard
Banisteria caapi
barley unit
barrack square
bean leaf beetle
behind the lens BTL
bemisias
binary adder
birdinsek
byzantina
calcitriol
can failure
caut
Celastrus cuneatus
clamp stick
coast memory
cocrystallisation
collapsed stratum method
command signal with audio frequency
consumer intelligence
cook-wench
cosmopolitanism
crossbinding
crumple up
dickite
DLTM
Dontreix
ectocardia extrathoracica
Eisenandradit
Eitelberg's test
Ekimchan
electropneumatic straight air brake
equitable liabilities
first heart sound
flue gas loss
foundership
get a good review
glamorizers
guardian by nurture
hairy in round the heel
halodrymiun
high-voltage direct-current transmission (hvdc)
Hyalocylix
hydrodynamic transmission
IMRO
intervolume
Iris xiphium
jato
jim-morgan
jointworm
lethargical
line foci
lose the thread of
mabuza
megavolt ampere
MEPP
metachromophile
microchemical pollutant
Mikolaj Kopernik
military statistics
multinodal
net retention time
nontotient
oblique cutter nippers
paragraphly
passive secretion
past future perfect
performin
post-enumeration tests
public infrastructure
quiz game
ramenas
restricted sail area mark
ricefish system
rockists
scatella bullacosta
science of air campaign
seasoning matter
ship girder
sine centre
softlifting
South Region
St-Sever
stagnal
swrb
terrariums
the European Union
three point arbitrage
thyrsus (ancient greece)
total mileage
tuedays
undefensable
underdoers
uranium-plutonium oxide
valley attenuation
virtual logic
Weber's triangle