时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   Two policemen were walking past a house. They smelled marijuana smoke. Bob said, "Someone's breaking the law. Maybe it's a drug dealer 1!" They went to the front door. John rang the doorbell. Nobody answered. John rang it again. Nobody answered. Bob shouted, "Police! Open the door!" They pulled out their guns. Bob kicked the door in. They entered the house. Bob went straight to the bathroom. Nobody was there. John said, "In here." Bob walked into the bedroom. An old lady was smoking 2 a joint 3. She was lying in bed. Her bedroom window was open. "You're under arrest," said Bob. She said she had cancer. Her voice was a whisper 4. Bob said, "Cancer is no excuse for breaking the law." She said they had broken into her house. They broke the law too. Bob said, "We're the police. It's okay for us to break into houses. Now get up, please."



1 dealer
n.商人,贩子
  • The dealer spent hours bargaining for the painting.那个商人为购买那幅画花了几个小时讨价还价。
  • The dealer reduced the price for cash down.这家商店对付现金的人减价优惠。
2 smoking
n.吸烟,抽烟;冒烟
  • He was wise to give up smoking.他戒烟是明智的。
  • He has decided to cut out smoking and drinking.他已决心戒烟、戒酒。
3 joint
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
4 whisper
n.耳语,密谈,谣传,飒飒的声音;vi.耳语,密谈,飒飒地响;vt.低声说
  • Their voices fell to a whisper.他们的话音低到成了耳语。
  • I've heard a whisper that he's going to resign.我听到了一个传闻说他准备辞职。
学英语单词
ablactations
adjustable lock rod
air oil shock strut
aranges
ash loss
b-typer
baked fresh ham
Beit 'Inan
bell-
block count readout
BNKR
bonding type
cavies
ceratopteriss
cermet(sintered ceramics metal)
concentration depolarization
cost of natural selection
crescents of the spinal cord
digesting kettle
electronic denier monitor
end of program
entropy effect
envaults
festiver
formation bombing
geometric dip
gloeosporium ribe montagne et desmaz
granularmetric analysis
grape-shot
guide keep
hendrix camera
hMIWC
hydraulic blast
ieee 696
in clockwise direction
is well
ko-
lamp cluster
lampit
leaky cable
limited deformation
Mattagami L.
Matthias' rules
micro-capsulated adhesive
midpoint method
Miss Thangs
mixed-solvent extraction
mo(u)ld nail
muscivora-forficatas
Naporoto
neurotendinous organs
neutralization process
Ongerup
overlapped connective tissue disease
Ownership-specific advantages
pilot chair
pintel
positive period method
PRVA
psychological injury
put a veto upon
quasi-monopolistic power
Quiscamote
reliability and maintanability
request definition
respiratory infections
Royal Free disease
safe handling of dangerous goods
scale-up problem
scammees
scientific achievements
secondary part
semichemical pulping
sensitive item
Shippegan
silicon wafer
sock it to somebody
sprung floor
star chambers
stevens village
straight chrome tanning
stuporous insanity
system of fixed production quotas
third-stage
Tobol River
totally-enclosed
Trading Standards Officer
transitional dominant
trinectes maculatuss
typhoid and tetanus vaccine
undeflectable
vetoer
vibrating wire tensiometer
visco-inelasticity
visual densitometer
waffle-like pattern
window dressers
wrinklies
Ydra
yell
ynquiry
Zygophyta