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
.ppf
a world of make-believe
Agkistrodon piscivorus
albitizations
allylalcohol
ancien regimes
andelman
anisomycin
atergo
balance sheet total
bimetallic saw blade for hack sawing machine
biogeographer
bitesize
bornhardtite
bring sb to his milk
bye-laws
capital of Pennsylvania
car-ownership
Cardamine macrophylla
cardiac electric defibrillator
carrier noise
ceramic cartridge
CNIC
components-of-variance model
continuous working period
craft-baseds
delivery ex warehouse
Dewar's bottle
dialkylphosphinate
differential thermometrictitration
diffusion diameter
domkat
Elspie
farm mechanic
field forge
flappin'
forced ramming
Frucht's theorem
full-scale sensitivity
full-scan television camera
Fultonville
Gauniganj
geological research
globular breast
glyvenol
goal congruence
initial volume
interest in
key indicator
knitted loop cloth
leak chamber
letterzine
living suture
loose content
magnesium-free
mail-enable application
master slave relation
model building module
myriagram
neomys anomaluss
nonsimultaneous transmission
overcomplexities
patchboard
photodisks
planarized
pope john paul ii
positive method of confirmation request
power feeding
prefidence
prissies
processing and storage plant rice drying
Quirkian
quotableness
radial arm bearing
recall from circulation
roberton
rubberlegs
rumala
saunieres
scoliosiometr
scrap diagnosis
slow sticking
somethingelse
Sorbus scalaris
spreadsheetings
store accumulator
straight half round scraper
subtopology
sulbenox
superconduction transition temperature
talked out of
the method of least square
thermoradiotherapy
to fo
toxaspire
trans-modulation
trochaical
trolley track
upeneus japonicus
us coast guards
VP22a
wall knot