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
-that
acroter
actual quality
AE,A.E.
Afrikaner
al-saleh
aluminothermic(al) method
anacin
anticorrosive paint
apparent discount rate
area of limitation
as sharp as a marble
ataxites
automatic repetition request
Big 4
brazenfaced
calorimotors
cervix vesicae
change of scale
chun
civil inattention
colicystopylitis
column lens
compacting process
concentrator module
contemplaire
cuspforms
deserialized
Didymohelix
emergency pressure reducing valve
evasively
exposed view
faecal matters
farthermost
ferrosilicons briquets
fixed source iteration
gaytan
go somebody one better
Granocyte
ground force
grounded out
haemophthalmos
headen
hypodematium crenatum
image ratio
intersols
kangoes
labor services
Langklip
lanuginosus
laser-augmented target acquisition and recognition (latar)
Lebaycid
lightbeam
line sync pulse
litho varnish
littoral region
major element
memory representation
mis-hit
multinuclear leukocyte
neuroganliitis
non-informative prior
nonhousehold
not add up
not lose in the telling
Novembery
organizational planning
outline driving
overscrupulosity
oxyblepsia
package card
palestroes
pheniprazine
Phrynosoma cornutum
pneumococcide
power electronics
Pradópolis
preepileptic
psychogenic psychosis
radar constant
retainer-ring
RSVC
sack storage room
set fire to something
sodium antimonyl tartrate
spin flash dryer
sscs (service specific convergence sublayer)
stepping scanning circuit
subversiveness
sweet lemon mechanism
termcap
tetralia glaberrima
theatreless
tool drum
Transportation Association of America
tzu wu
Uam-ri
violent interpretation
Virgo the Virgin
wood for turnery
woozley
yale brass