时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   He hated doing the laundry. It was such a hassle. Someday, he thought, clothes will be 100-percent paper. Then we can just throw out our dirty clothes. No more washers, no more dryers 2. No more laundry baskets, no more laundry soap. He went to the laundry room. He washed and dried a week's worth of laundry. Back in his apartment, he sorted and folded the clean laundry. What's this, he wondered. One of his wife's socks was missing 3. He looked in the laundry basket. He unfolded the towels and sheets. He examined the apartment floor. He went back to the laundry room. He searched the washer and the dryer 1. He examined the floor and the trash can. He went back to his apartment. When his wife came home, he told her about the missing sock. "It's not missing," she said. "I threw it out. It had a hole in it."



1 dryer
n.干衣机,干燥剂
  • He bought a dryer yesterday.他昨天买了一台干燥机。
  • There is a washer and a dryer in the basement.地下室里有洗衣机和烘干机。
2 dryers
n.干燥机( dryer的名词复数 );干燥器;干燥剂;干燥工
  • Men also have hair dryers and, if they suffer from baldness, they use a growth stimulator, buy hairpieces, or have hair transplanted from the hirsute part of the scalp to the bare areas. 男士也有他们的吹风机,而且如果他们秃顶的话,还会用毛发生长剂、买假发,或者把头发从密集的地方移植到谢顶的地方。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The dryers can be automated. 干燥机可以自动化作业。 来自辞典例句
3 missing
adj.遗失的,缺少的,失踪的
  • Check the tools and see if anything is missing.检点一下工具,看有无丢失。
  • All the others are here;he's the only one missing.别人都来了,就短他一个。
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agricultural parity price
aiki-jutsu
Al Sharpton
America's Hat
Apteronotidae
arouses
backwater zone
balancing box
beam-of-light-transistor
brownified
called-ups
Canadian French
Caparsolate
characteristic polynomial of a differential operator
chechenya
collective open sales system
conchoid bodies
confirmation instructions
continued isolation
creditworthy
crumb structure
cyclic thermal loading
daehlie
de facto adoption
de-Muslimizing
debeque
definition measurement
demand element
devotely
double extra dense flint
effervescent mixture
excluded reserve
Ezralites
fictiously
fleetwoods
flush trimmer
fungies
gas control instrument
gastrioceratids
give sb the brush-off
greenburg
hard-wiring
imping
in-betweening
instrophiate
integer numbering system
interbasin hydropower development
jayaweera
just seventeen
Kasempa
key access
key on
kinematical cosmology
latest design
leszek
letters of patent
Luckington
lunulicardia retusa
mamma-yaw
medium boiler
metal purity
middling yield
misanalysed
mono-operation
Moslemising
multiordinal
natural conservation planning
noncapitalized
nozzle area control system
Owens L.
paper file
photozincograph
pirani gage tube
polyglottal
proteg
prothrombin inhibitor
Public Accounts Committee
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quartile variation
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resolution enhancement
resources classroom for aboriginal education
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student-grade
Subhadra
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toggle regulator
touch magnetization
towsy
transparency layer
usasci
v. canaliculi cochle?
watertight stratum
yetts
zigzag scanning