时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   I wish I was dead, he said to himself over and over. I wish I was dead. He couldn't remember the last time he had smiled, let alone laughed. He was miserable 1. He had done something really stupid recently. It had cost him a LOT of money. It was driving him crazy. Why had he done it? How could he have been so stupid? He couldn't get it out of his mind. He thought about it every day, all day long. All that money—gone! He couldn't have made a worse financial decision. It was ruining his life. He ate little. He slept little. He talked little. He was a somber 2 man. He kept telling himself, It's only money, It's only money. But that didn't help. Nothing helped. Every day was worse than the previous day. His life had become a nightmare 3—a nightmare that he desperately 4 wanted to end.



1 miserable
adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的
  • It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他,这是可耻的。
  • Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。
2 somber
adj.昏暗的,阴天的,阴森的,忧郁的
  • He had a somber expression on his face.他面容忧郁。
  • His coat was a somber brown.他的衣服是暗棕色的。
3 nightmare
n.恶梦,可怕的事物,无法摆脱的恐惧
  • I was glad to awake from such a nightmare.我庆幸终于从噩梦中醒来了。
  • I had a nightmare last nightand,lost sleep.昨夜我作了个恶梦,失眠了。
4 desperately
adv.极度渴望地,绝望地,孤注一掷地
  • He was desperately seeking a way to see her again.他正拼命想办法再见她一面。
  • He longed desperately to be back at home.他非常渴望回家。
学英语单词
acridine dye
administer the oath to
Age of Exploration
ahd
amyloform
anabarites
anchored instruction (ai)
arenaceous shale
Army List
at risk to
B/W display
backside angle
bactericidins
Baksanenok
basis of posting
be contemptuous of
binocular contrast
black slug
Carex minxianensis
center of push
chianti
citizen interest groups (cigs)
coefficient of fuel feeding
criminal knowledge
cyclic heating method
delirium grandiosum
denaturability
dishables
display color
Disraelian
duration of validity
ear dust
ectozoan
emphysemas
fewle
fundamentalss
Gaussian classifier
GM_first-firstly-or-at-first
half-wave loss
hand in hand chain
hand-held microcomputer
hawaiian-types
heteropyrithiamine
humourously
incompletable
instructional map
jay
JDD
jug handles
kelle
Kellock's sign
keratoconometer
key indicator
knubby
Kowloon Peninsula
Kōshoku
legges
luggage compartment mat
lukewarm climate
mealey
modern machine design
moorburn
motor test stand
multiple-screw vessel
Nin, Anais
oldenburgs
onus of proof of claim
ordered list of vertices
overlearning
paper airplane
paranasal sinus
peripheral control
point to point switched virtual connections
posturises
pseudacteon
reconciliation method
relief troops
rid someone of
romanevich
romeos
scat-sang
set screw wrench
shockers
so sick
sproket wheel
stowage under deck
sulfur content in fuels
take an overdose
towers of london
train dispatching telephone
transacetylation
tube cap
Uganda mahogany
undatergum
uracratia
warcrafts
water wave analogy
Welshness
yatars
yeroens
Zdzieszowice
zeroenergy reactor