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
abolished
air sac (or pneumatic sac)
albert edwards
altocumulus cumulogenitus
andante
annealing oven
ASTM International
basic mapping support
better luck next time
bindy
boiler stay tube
Bulbophyllum funingense
capable of doing
chronoisotherm
cider-cup
clark creek
coefficient of non-uniformity of motion
concave pit
contextual model
cream slices
disguised unemployment
dressmen
effectiveness of audit
end of period value
endoplasmic reticulum (er)
enrapturer
equilibrium state probability equation
equipment operationally ready
ethylene-imine
forward modeling
four-bladed vane
functional body
gas fittings
generating station of ship
gray scale morphology
herred
Heteropogon triticeus
holding against
hung out
hydraulic compatibility
kahnawake
kazachkov
marine monitoring
Marteilia
mbuti
mckeachie
modulated cathode
mole-hunter
morrhua
Motussin
mount robson park
multipurpose cold store
myagrus yagii
myeloscintogram
neohaematopinus callosciuri
non-ascii
non-nuclear hot operation
nonconcave
nonfinalist
old-age pension
olderer
oures
outer jacket
parties concerned
peeler cotton
phenylcrotonic acid
photon gas
pimp slaps
porcelain cyclone
prescutellar bristle
proxillan
pull off spring
pump characteristic
pyruvic kinase
radioopaques
rearhouse of silkworms
Rhododendron concinnum
ribbed cotton elastic braids
rolled concrete
sex offense
silo launch
sofry
sole-channel
spondylus candidus
strain-crystallizing elastomer
sulci nervi radialis
sweat pants
São Domingos, R.
temperature-coefficient of electrical resistance
tondo
tricknologies
trinkety
true chromatin
tuberculum anterius atlantis
Tutamoe Ra.
unearned divident
urban
vacuum retarding mechanism
vapor proof
warbling
water-transport number
xrep