时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   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。
学英语单词
0436
accardo
adaptor coupling
after-tone
Almohade, Almohad
artificial inflation
Ballymack
baroque-style
be counting on
be nothing more than
biblical
bickering and biting
black top
boat-shaped abdomens
bprd
charging change over
civilian technician
coordinatior
counter-clockwise
cramer's v
currency amount
cusp of the first species
customary's free credit balance
double-dose
electrical plant
enwiya
exploitees
fax(facsimile)
flew in the face of
focus knob
freight yard
Fryazino
gotters
grittier
high veld
high voltage converter
hinge line of fold
homoequiline
inbreeding depression
inclined coil type
indyl
intermodal distortion
iodacetanilide
isoplethic curves
itune
kith
line drip signal
line-sequential color-television
locking head
loose joint butt
low-energy physics
male screw cutting tool
malocas
Manihiki Plateau
mega-church
micro-caddisfly
Milian's erythema
mudflow deposit
Mycosphaerella
nomian
noneviscerated
obaie
oxyrenin
perinavel region
phenylethylenes
playgroup
presbytismus
quinarian
refuge bay
retarded inflow
rod connecting
roller standard
salsaing
saluters
semiminimum condition
shipping firms
sibilancies
single range
sittersin
snake in the grass
solvent sizing
steam tank ship
striaght lined vessel
subpectoral
supporting roll
tipepidinum
Topeka and Santa Railway Company
Toshiharu
trade on one's own account
traveling wave
treuhandanstalts
trumpet leg
United States tanker
unseasonable bolting
upscalability
usurance
vector expression
velleman
Vena thoracodorsalis
well-validated
wild mushroom
yackety-yaks