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
aceto-orcein
aerodynamic tailoring
alternative trough rails
anti-cavitation valve
antileprosy
arteriola et venula nasalis retin? superior
attack
be in the air
bottom hole production allocator
boundary inequalities
broume
bureaucratic structure
buzz away
cadmium oxide
caveperson
chaytors
chemical association
chemical recovery boiler
coil spring clutch
cold mastication
conepiece
country map
cross-tails
deep metatarsal vein
degaussing control
dharmashalas
drawbench jaws
dredge up something
driving distance
drowse
failure in shortage
fibre wall thickness
firm friends
geocentric velocity
glyprothiazole
grave-wax
group field
guise
have somebody on toast
homophene
idleness time
incitement to disaffection act
inclined rod-grid water film scrubber
incommunicate
integration and test
inwash
jezkazgan (dzhezkazgan)
kinda-sorta
kiskiminetas (kiski) r.
Klamath weed
lower limit of flammability
make oneself too cheap
maladroitly
Mare Frigoris
marine meteorograph
maturing check
mendiciary
micellizing
military engineering geologic map
minimum spanning tree
mis-association
nitro-dextrin
Nofuentes
one-woman
optical diffraction
optional pause instruction
pasting
Plantago camtschatica
polyenynes
post molding
post-translational cleavage
prey upon
profit of enterprise
pucca
Rabsaris
rectal epidermoid carcinoma
rentcharge
restricted parking
retrieval efficiency
semenlike
senso
sigmoidal septa
silas marner
simple cuboidal
sperging
spoke reticle blade
sprinkling car
stepless hull
stethoscopy
symplocos eriostroma
tank gauge
teleforms
tersteeg
throw the little finger
tool-setting
treffle
Tsivaras
twin cam tracks
uncrimps
upper-echelon
water bodies
water emptying system