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
accessory body
adjusting-valve
Adson's test
airborne weight
ALLN
animal epidemic disease or epidemic
Arabian ornament
arc brazing
at one's ease
auto responder
autocorrecting
bacteriological aftergrowth
Beethoven exploder
benzfluorenol
bifurcations
bijagos (arquitelgo dos)
bounded existential quantifier
Calamus erectus
chain fission
come pat to
current excited atom
deterministic retrieval
dipolar protophilic solvent
Dolichandrone
edit date/time
eggcustard
electrovagogram
emprin
equipollent opposition
fixed mould
flaneur
flick knife
flush-riveted covering
free carrier
green cured hide
had an advantage of
hand chain-block hoist
head-buttings
Helictotrichon leianthum
hemicholine-3
humulus cordifolus mak.
interval time out
iodide process
keratosis diffusa foetalis
limpia
lincious
linsk
liquidambar formosana hce. var. monticola rehd. et wils
lithiumion
longitudinal repeat
military-surplus
mosaick
N'ko
nervus hypoglosus
neurines
Nova Topola
nucleus (pl.nuclei)
oddest
oolitic
operation buffer
pan fried shrimp
papmeat
parapapillary
phenyldimethanal
polarization cross
power upratine
power-supply operation
predestinates
primolut-depot
prosaikogenin
pseudo-parallel planes
pterigynandrum filiforme
Rademacher's system
rate per cent per annum
renal papillary necrosis
right subgraph
roundoff
s.c.f.
sectioned Y-deflection plate oscilloscope tube
shitstains
shrimp balls
soft scale
splined hub
stadia computing disc
sweepers
TAP-144
three-dimensional unit
tipsy cake
tuberculous myocarditis
tug one's forelock
unbonded design
uncommitted reserve
under course
unemployed population
unimodular eigenfunction
ventured on
WAFU
wind-heating
writing-pad
wunna
wurssy