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
299
Abelia engleriana
about half the length of the ovary
admonitors
AE and P,AE&P
alloy phase equilibrium diagram
antrustionship
application blanks
as the position stands
aukward
bass saxhorn
battle formation
behavioural economics
BVPP
Cheffadene
Chifre, Sa.do
circulating connection
clamp plate
coboundary homomorphism
comorin, cape
Corydalis leptocarpa
country by country comparisonn
cubation
Dataquest (Incorporated)
discharge auger
double Roebel bar
electric tapegage
elsenhower
end-year
Farabeuf's amputation
flaying machine
flimmerwellen
form a picture
frei
Fuerte, R.
gossei
gromet ring
gua (ivory coast)
hall-petch equation
helmet display
hypodermic syringe
interval calibration
JBP
JFYI
keyed rainbow generator
kiyth
levi civita tensor
ligulatus
linear logic
localists
long-term receivables
look as if butter would not melt in one's mouth
lorsbach
low tide water datum
Madeira cockroach
magnetodisk
make the riffle
merchandise legal weight
metallgesellschafts
micro-detector
Naiadidae
nazon
net shortwave irradiance
optical compensating camera
optimal criterion
oxylinkages
pars lumbalis diaphragmatis
patch process
pealius machili
physocephaly
pics (production and information control system)
ployphase transformer
prior permission required (ppr)
Quercus lanceolata
regular octahedron group
reno-lumbar artery
Saggat
salomes
sand ripple
sanzaka odori (japan)
seame
semi-remote manipulation
shantih
siberian larch (larix siberica ledeb.)
softloaded
spiritus glycerylis trinitratis
strategic flexibility
suntech
superfamily Platyrrhini
theory of indicators
thin tube
titon
Unified tax credit
uninuclear
unparsimonious
unprojecting
velocity-modulated electron beam
voyage charter
Waimarie
watch-maker
wax myrtle
we haven't got all day