时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   Victor always sat right behind Billy on the school bus. Victor kicked the back of Billy's seat all the way to school and from school. Billy hated Victor. Billy hated school. Every night Billy prayed that Victor would vanish 1. One morning Billy awoke and saw a yellow, plastic gun near his pillow. He put the little gun in his jacket pocket. Maybe he could scare Victor with it. Billy went outside. The bus arrived. He got on and sat down. Victor sat down behind him. Victor started kicking his seat. Billy turned around. He pointed 2 the gun at Victor. He told Victor to stop kicking his seat. Laughing, Victor kicked the seat harder. Billy closed his eyes. He pulled the trigger 3. Victor stopped laughing. Billy opened his eyes. The seat was empty. Victor was gone. Billy dropped the gun. He sat down again. School will be okay now, he thought.



1 vanish
vi.突然不见,消失;不复存在,绝迹
  • With a wave of his hand,the magician made the rabbit vanish.魔术师手一挥兔子便不见了。
  • All your troubles will vanish away when he returns safely. 他平安回来后,你就无忧无虑了。
2 pointed
adj.尖的,直截了当的
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
3 trigger
n.触发器,板机,制滑机;v.触发(事件)
  • His index finger tightened on the trigger but then relaxed again.他的食指扣住扳机,然后又松开了。
  • He pulled the trigger but the gun didn't go off.他打了一枪,没有发火。
学英语单词
abrasion and wear
accomplished facts
anthophaein
antiuniversity
aonidiella inornata
assimilative phase
automatic message-switching center
bacteria-laden
baselines
block multiplexing control bit
body of work
burraxka silch
Clauberg unit
cobty
coding sequence
complementary degenerate series
complex Poynting vector
consummators
contact controller
continuous band dryer
coolwater
cootie
cromorne
crumbers
curios shop
customer cost
daily interest for arrearage
deck glass roof
degise
demonstrator programme
Dromin
economic analyst
Elasmothere
electrical operating station
emporia
erratic assay
establishment procedure of the patent agencies
exception analysis investigation
fertilizer rate
fishability
gallimaufrey (mediaeval england)
Ganshu
gefulte fish
gland-packing leakage
graded-index glass fiber
grant component
Hawr
heat screen
heidecke
high pressure oil pump
in a number of ways
indirect comparison of characteristics
internal primary reflection
jaboney
Judaistically
kingdom comes
lamentably
last mentioned
lubrication oil sump
Lynda
materia subtilis
metratome
minimal cut
ministry of agriculture
minority control
newsbook
nonjuggling
off-the-arm bed sewing machine
open excavation
out-of-character
pale-yellows
papisher
pasta magnesii sulphatis
patching hole
photodeutron
phytoextractions
preparative partition chromatography
pseudoprognathism
pulverized grind
railmen
Scorb(Sorbus)
shared frame buffer interconnect
siphons
spansaw
speed of growth
SSADM
staff vines
StCP
surface freezing index
technocriticism
test embankment
to compare notes
transparentizing
undug
unsolvable node
untrowing
upper layer station
venoclysis
vertical magnification
wideband couple
wire-line core-barrel
zero complementarity