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
a fertile imagination
acetyl-amino-glucosidase
air blast cooling fan
alarm yoke
Andrographis paniculata
anteaural
arm conveyor
auricular paroxysmal tachycardia
autangelist
break sth off
bullous exostosis
burmese-yis
bus lock
chambrays
constrein
core ratio
cyclone collar
data interface
ear-likest
emmelichthys struhsakeri
engine number
etiolated
Eupatorium maculatum
external acting brake
firing lock
flicker spectrophotometer
for our information
gas chromatograph-quadpole mass spectrometer
gas filled porosity
george eastmen
giambi
gnomic poetry
gosman
half-session
hamadahs
haplospory
houlder
in the days to come
Indocalamus hispidus
Jeevesian
jing ping
key fig
kiiza
kodiak
libolite
licensability
Liesegang banding
linguae tremor
Lipoproteinosis
livestock histology
lobotomise
Lüdenhausen
manderley
MDRO
mission management system
motoshima
multiple chart
Naver, R.
Never tell me!
ngarikutuke
Nonbank Banks
noncompulsive
nonneutral plasma
Old World least weasel
palaeogenomics
pay bed
payrolls
periodic migration
peripheral physical unit
photovoltaic device
plotton
pre-political
psychological health effect
pulchritudinous
quasi-realtime language
Regulice
representational
reproduction method
Rio Branco do Sul
roll oil
Rote Wand
salt bath furn
Sartrians
sebestyen
sepia toning
Sepyron
sex pili
sitsangs
solo run
sRz
state of existence
steig
step feed drill attachment
tambourin
Thrombolonin
thrust one's oar in
UMPK
unconfined compression apparatus
uvularis
warning system
worship the ground someone walks on
zapato