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。
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a light heart lives long
abundances
angelesbased
autohide
automatic foot shear
Betsiamites R.
bicyclism
bifacial tension
callytharra spring
carelessest
carthusian orders
catstitched
CCNU
chadar
changed owners
clock skew
come to a crisis
commercial customer
conventional creep limit
corfis
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cynodon dactylon pers.
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electronic services
endocrine infiltrative exophthalmos
enilospirone
eshet
extended simple econometric model
external gland
external recorder
family-court
feedback capacitance
go sit on a tack
hard excitation
Herter-Foster method
high water season
i-dree
ilindens
immersible motor
imperfect flower
inter company agreements
laryngeal joints
late-time apparent resistivity
lavacre
loran-c transmission
magnesium soap
magnetic tape-selectric composer
manganesian magnetite
metanolysis
microcanonical
miharaite
minimum size problem
miseryguts
monetary telephone
multidiode cascade vcsel
myosthenic
national campaign
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obscurum
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onomatopeia
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pop - up window
pre-amp
pretoddler
previde
progressive differentiation
projecting brick
Pyritum
rave party
relative heat resistance
resterilise
Roeder's treatment
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selenole
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SMITF
somatic variation
somatotridymus
structional
sworn brother
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tapered hob bing cutter
tectonic overpressure
thoracic thumb forceps
to jump ship
trivial topology
ungentleman
unrepayable
upline facility
vacuates
valve-opening period
victim emitter
victoroff