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。
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72T4Cl
accounting house
ACNU
ailanthus malabarica dc
air-filtering
american rock brakes
antimony triethyl
Ashton-under-Lyne
Ashuanipi L.
attsite
axial propagation constant
band head
bisque fire
blotchy surface
Bottle of Beer
Choleragenoid
cigarette-boat
circular trace indicator
classifications
Commodity Futures Modernization Act
convexifying
crimea a9327 (krym)
decisioned
demand ... of
diaphragm and piston-type pulsator
dioctylmethylenebisphosphonate
discolouring clay
dispersing honey-comb
doublehanded
drum starter
electrical force
engine accessibility
eustachian muscle reflex meter
evacuates
fiddlewoods
forced out of
frameworks
Franco-Manitobans
gas fuel nozzle
geofence
Gilmerton
Gresten
habendum clause
Habibnagar
hemerophyte
hire earned
ideal realism
inflations
intermediate abutment
intervenience
iridescent glaze
La Bouverle
magna
mappists
medically underserved area
meningoceles
microfission
MO2
monetary units
nautical telegraph
oligodendrogliomatosis
onion-peel dermatomes
optical delay line
organella
pallys
pedogeochemical prospecting
perchloropolyvinyl paint
perillo
pEtx
photoelectrically balanced slidewire potentiometer
pram-face
pushing in
razmi
release of route locking
renal arteries
reverted calcium phosphate
rostralia
rotation set screw
ruccus
SAOL
scientific exhibit
seocalcitol
smell of the shop
south orientation
spot-check
staff number
steam heating tube
swath-clouts
telisha
tell over money
telluric bismuth
theatre lighting
thickness of tyre
tonal answer
tunicatas
ultramicrotomies
underretting
unit code element
Up and In
watertight motor
wuom
zero complementarity