时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   He was bicycling west on Delancey Street. Traffic was moving fast. It was bumper 1 to bumper. He turned south off Delancey Street. A couple of blocks later, he turned onto Grand Street. Traffic was also bumper to bumper, but it was barely 2 moving. He came to a Chinese market. Fresh vegetables and fruits were on display outside. He parked his bicycle. He looked at all the different greens. He pointed 3 to three different greens. He told the Chinese woman, "Two pounds of each, please." She put the greens into three red, plastic bags. She said, "$9.50." He said, "$9.50!? No, $8.50." The woman frowned. Her voice rose: "$9.50! $3, $3, $3.50—$9.50." He realized that she was right. He shook his head. I can't add three little numbers, he thought. He gave her $10. She offered him his change. He said, "Keep it." She smiled. She sweetly said thank you.



1 bumper
n.(汽车上的)保险杠;adj.特大的,丰盛的
  • The painting represents the scene of a bumper harvest.这幅画描绘了丰收的景象。
  • This year we have a bumper harvest in grain.今年我们谷物丰收。
2 barely
adv.仅仅,几乎没有,几乎不
  • The male bird is barely distinguishable from the female.雄鸟和雌鸟几乎无法辨别。
  • He took barely enough money to keep the children in bread.他赚很少的钱仅够孩子们勉强糊口。
3 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。
学英语单词
acrodynic
adjustable leg
adventral line
albinoidism
animal pharmacy
Arsinoe I
ASPAC
attribute metadata
automorphisms
avian diphtheria
belt punch
biscake
bookcrossing
Bothfeld
bull rake
busy seasons
cacemia
case-notes
cerebral flexure
charity sale
clamping means
conjugal offence
control input/output
coronice
crabill
DA after date
dead-beatism
develop a habit
device-independence
differentiation of inhibition
discharge from
disutilize
electronic modulation
endovasculitis
enfeoffing
fatigue-deformation
ferrotransferrin
filling tension
first lunar meridian
first overhaul period
flying bomb
foamboard
fused pyrometer
Gram staining
hard leather
hematoscopy
Heterosmilax polyandra
hick-joint
hymning
imploringly
improvement research
incremental conductance
inlet joint for fuel suction pipe
isomerizing
lnstitute
mains borne disturbance
metalloregulatory protein
naritas
native silver
neutron time of flight facility
nonlaw
of all time
pairwork
perturbing potential
pharmacovigilance
phyllospondylous
piezoelectric charge
Polydnaviridae
powdery scab
predepositionally
prevailing visibility
program pulse
purification train
rearing bits
recibe
romages
seawater-sediment interface
sheet winch
sheila-na-gig
silt carrying capacity
smoothing capacitor
sponsored link
subcalorism
tea strainer
thallophytes
theias
throwing aside
trendelenburg
tromomania
type of expenditure
uddiyana
unsingable
variable region
VATE (versatile automatic test equipment)
vegetational continuum concept
velocity control system
vikna (vikten is.)
visual bell
vpd
watch pendant
water potential analysis
wholesale price statistics