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
a bider
accustom
air position indicator (api)
anti-PR
articulated tower mooring system
audi-
axonotmeses
bibliognost
broad-beam absorption
broadness of band
casing cleaning
catch handle
catechisings
Cleupin
combustion shock
compoundwound
control flight
cooling arrangement
copal painting medium
cross-flooding fitting
cross-pliest
dacryocystostomy
dedapper
defence in lawsuit
differential pulley
dollarwise
dromeys
Echinops pseudosetifer
epithelial nodule
error checking
exjunction
fibular articular facet
flouncies
Glycerosteril
hagiography
high speed digital subscriber line
hot fixing
husbandress
hydrodemetalation
hypocentral location
identification tape
illicentiate
indirect bill
karyolysis
Langmuir trough
lift(elevator)
LLLP (low leakage loading pattern)
longitudinal vibration damper
lower closure
maintenance control center
medial arteriole of retina
methenyl chloride
misphrase
mixed breathing
mtTERF
mucin virulence
myhre
nausea epidemica
NavierkStokes equation
night caps
non metallic lubricant
Peer to Peer Protocol
perpetual check
pivaloyloxymethyl
product level design
public funds
radio range receiver
radiosymmetric
record level specifications
rhinorrhoeas
Roda de Bara
Rubber City
scarlet oaks
schalstein
screw-cap tightener
sectors per track
serious disease
ship with large freeboard
shunting capacitor
soy isoflavone
specializers
statement of mercantile financial condition
steamer duck
storage factor
structure of ring
theory of limited memory storage
threshold rule
thyreophoras
time-stamp
transmision countershaft
ts'ui
ulitrbil
unattackable
underwroot
upset a balance
upward-closing slide gate
vertical axis windmill
Volnay
warreporting
water-wings
whippering campaign
wilful inflation of prices