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。
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Abiword
achernar
albufeiras
anthracmetry
atrial auricle
avalanched
Bacillus sphenoides
bake-ovens
battle of Sempatch
Biopol
boiling period
bottom hole samples
buzzerphone
calf starter
callao fleece
catalytical discoloring spectrophotometry
child of the family
collector section
colour washing machine
compressed air breathing apparatus
coniglobus kasyotonis
cowchips
cowls
crustliker
Dalbergia cultrata
daratech
data conversion check
daubing
desmana
Desmodium gyrans
drops the bomb
duumviri
ersatz materials
excommunes
full reach
functional diploid
genus gelsemiums
hardware emulation layer
hindus
hundred years
in bath measurements
India relish
Insurance Assess
intransigeantly
IrLMP
jet? battu dessus
just love
K-limit
kahalani
keep working
ketostearate
Krivoy Rog
locking tab washer
log billet of timber
Longnor
low speed anemometer
lumnite
machine-generated
mercuric acetylide
MIRAPINNIDAE
moisture dispersion
Mēt'ī Wenz
NA97
non-peak hours
out - of - pocket expenses
outwooed
overwater refraction
paracentesis capitis
pass. passage
pizza bone
pumil
quail before
repairing tool
resonance line
retenant
root rots
root tips
rub salt in someone's wounds
rupcic
same distribution
scanning beam guidance
sculptured surface
shelf height
speech circuit
squircle
suppresser gene
talagia
thick-headed fly
topographical surveying
Tournay sign
trans-siberian
vacuum filter
venae transversae cervici
verb. sap.
voltage-sharing capacitor
wander around
water ash
waterless gas-holder
weatherometers
working torsional angle
yeast contaminant
ZOH