时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   Four people lost their lives last Sunday morning. A man walked into a Long Island drugstore. He and his wife needed painkillers 1. He shot and killed everyone in the drugstore. Then he stole about 5,000 painkillers. Police arrested him several days later. He was mowing 2 the lawn at his mother's house. "Why did he have to kill four people?" asked Mrs. Smith, the wife of the pharmacist. Mr. Smith was filling in on Sunday for the regular pharmacist. The regular pharmacist had stayed home for Father's Day. A young woman, Miss Garcia, was assisting Mr. Smith on Sunday. She would have graduated from high school yesterday. An elderly grandfather, Mr. Jones, was picking up a prescription 3 for his ailing 4 wife. A single mother, Miss Evans, was picking up a prescription for her son. She was to get married next month. "Why did he have to kill ANYBODY?" wailed 5 Mrs. Smith.



1 painkillers
n.止痛药( painkiller的名词复数 )
  • The doctor gave him some painkillers to ease the pain. 医生给了他一些止疼片以减缓疼痛。 来自辞典例句
  • The primary painkillers - opiates, like OxyContin - are widely feared, misunderstood and underused. 人们对主要的镇痛药——如鸦片剂奥施康定——存在广泛的恐惧、误解,因此没有充分利用。 来自时文部分
2 mowing
n.割草,一次收割量,牧草地v.刈,割( mow的现在分词 )
  • The lawn needs mowing. 这草坪的草该割了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • "Do you use it for mowing?" “你是用它割草么?” 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
3 prescription
n.处方,开药;指示,规定
  • The physician made a prescription against sea- sickness for him.医生给他开了个治晕船的药方。
  • The drug is available on prescription only.这种药只能凭处方购买。
4 ailing
v.生病
  • They discussed the problems ailing the steel industry. 他们讨论了困扰钢铁工业的问题。
  • She looked after her ailing father. 她照顾有病的父亲。
5 wailed
v.哭叫,哀号( wail的过去式和过去分词 )
  • She wailed over her father's remains. 她对着父亲的遗体嚎啕大哭。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The women of the town wailed over the war victims. 城里的妇女为战争的死难者们痛哭。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
a roll of film
aeroionization
Aetna
air core inductance
angle of ruling
Antipyritics
Aprognathodon
besseras
BGCA
black ash
canting piece
cardiotoxicity
carrieth
cirrhochrista kosemponialis
cloud platform
cloudy speckle
cnuts
collapse polje
customs of the service
data processing of information
desare
disaffirmation
ever now and then
eximbanks
foreign-area
formless stage
gangess
gluttonesses
Hanbury-Brown-Twiss effect
hatherell
heart wheel
heterogender
ichthyosis linearis circumflexa
image retention
in association with
indenize
isoamyl phthalate
jack-by-the-hedge
Kalimantan Selatan
Katayama
Lestock
lift-and-carry mechanism
live a happy life
loop discounnect pulsing
lost clause
madison
marketing journal
mate
maximal prime divisor
mechano-electronic transducer
mesodaeum
mobelphone
moneygrabbing
multibit delta-sigma modulation
mutual promotion
myboto
nobly
noncrush
oedometer
operation time coefficient
Oscillatoriales
pandemicity
peak die load
Pedicularis pseudoversicolor
praeabodomen
pre-incarnation
prepacking
product fulfilment
psogos
responsive bandwidth
rip down
rosettas
rotary chair
rubber membrane analogy
second distance
shoe leathers
silverleaf nightshades
slator
slender reason
space-operatic
squint deviation
successful
superhydrophobic
supplicants
surfman
sympathetic detonations
syn-
Tebedu
tellins
temporal frequency
test sample
textured yarn
Thalictrum atriplex
thermal picture
toposcopes
trailing edge(of brush)
tree stratum
Tsimlyansk Reservoir
ultrahigh vacuum (uhv)
wrong line order
Yelva
Zephyrinus, Saint