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。
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activizing
adsorption isostere
airmail packets
antilights
as mad as be hopping mad
avoidance reaction
baggingly
Ban Mu Si
bioaerosol
broadband antenna
bromous
can warmer
castanopsis fargesii franch. c. tatwaniana hay.
Ch'ǒnnae-gun
chair professor
charge air temperature regulator
cirro-ripples
close type injector
cloud in a box
copiamycin
cpusa
cutting tool angle
deacetylated
dog head
dolicocephaly
dynamic constraint
ecological association
electropyroeter
element duration
embroiled with
expanded relative form of value
fair hair
field proven
flower-head
Frosterley
gas-filled coble
geland
gnathal
gray power
gray snapper
high tide shoreline
hoodfar
hydrodynamic transducer
hyletics
interbedded coal seam
Isk.
julieta
junction point
Krasnohorivka
L.A.S.
lagants
lan tau
left, right and center
longitudinal data analysis
lube oil technology
lycoxanthn
maximum lethal oxygen concentration
mental alalia
Micro-Thermy
mistreater
mobidity
money-financed
motor driven switch group
National Botanic Gardens of South Africa
no hang up
non-causalities
non-destructive addition
nothing to write home about
orthotungstate
patungensis
pentatonic scales
power station nuclear
propellant level transducer
rain forest climate
read-out time
restricted selection
revival of wills
saponarias
Schiefferdecker's theory
septicum
sewing thread on cone
shower case
silk satin
solublest
stem chaplet
storge
subcooling condensate
supervacaneousness
Surt, Sha'bīyah
sutorian
syllable independent
telegram in secret language
Teleostel
televisionally
the immune system
third-wave feminism
Timms
unreliable process
usea salicylate
whirr
wrier
zemlianichenko