时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   "I’m so tall!" he bragged 1 to his classmates. "I'm so tall!" he bragged to his grandparents 2. "I'm so tall!" he bragged to his little sister. He was 3 only 12, but he was a head taller than most of his classmates. "You're going 4 to be so tall when you grow up," his dad said 5 proudly 6. "I'm going to be taller than a door!" he bragged to his dad. "Maybe you will be a professional 7 basketball player," his dad said proudly. "I'm going to be taller than the basketball net 8!" he bragged to his dad. Everyone was sure he was going to be very tall. But then something happened. He didn't grow taller in the seventh 9 grade. He didn't grow taller in the eighth 10 grade. He didn't grow taller in ANY grade! But his classmates grew taller and taller. When he graduated 11 from high school, his sister was taller than he was.



1 bragged
v.自夸,吹嘘( brag的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He bragged to his friends about the crime. 他向朋友炫耀他的罪行。
  • Mary bragged that she could run faster than Jack. 玛丽夸口说她比杰克跑得快。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 grandparents
n.祖父母;外祖父母
  • I often visit my grandparents.我常常去看望祖父母。
  • My grandparents live in shanghai.我的祖父母住在上海。
3 was
v.(is,am的过去式)是,在
  • He said he was right.他说他是正确的。
  • He was cold and hungry.他又冷又饿。
4 going
n.去,离去,地面(或道路)的状况,工作情况;(复数形式)goings: 行为;adj.进行中的,流行的,现存的
  • We're going to listen to a report this afternoon. 今天下午我们要去听报告。
  • He hates leaving the office and going on holiday.他不愿离开办公室去度假。
5 said
v.动词say的过去式、过去分词
  • He said to me that he could not come.他对我说他不能来。
  • He said to his mother that he would do it by himself.他对他的母亲说他将自己独立做那件事。
6 proudly
adv.自豪地,得意地;傲慢地
  • She proudly displayed her prize.她得意地展示所获的奖品。
  • She gazed proudly at the shiny buckles on her shoes.她骄傲地注视着鞋上闪亮的扣环。
7 professional
adj.专业的;职业的;n.专业人员;职业运动员
  • He is a professional tennis player.他是一名职业网球运动员。
  • I need a professional to sort out my finances.我需要专业人士为我管理财务。
8 net
n.网,网状物,罗网,净利,实价;adj.净余的,纯粹的;vt.用网捕,撒网;净赚
  • There is a net behind the goal in football. 足球的球门后面有一个网子。
  • The ball rolled into the net. 球滚进了网中。
9 seventh
n.七分之一;num./adj.第七
  • July is the seventh month of the year.7月是一年中的第七个月。
  • Let's start from the seventh stop. 让我们从第七站开始。
10 eighth
n.八分之一;num.第八
  • It is on the eighth page.它在第八页上。
  • August is the eighth month of the year.八月是一年中的第八个月。
11 graduated
a.(税)累进的;分等级的;刻度的;毕业的
  • He graduated cum laude. 他以优等成绩毕业。
  • He graduated with a GPA of 3.8. 他毕业时各科成绩的平均积分点为3.8。
学英语单词
Abyla
accumulates
acoustical navigation
amen cadences
ant-lions
ascertainable production
barium tetraborate
Beatrix
berthing beam
betty naomi friedans
booking center
bottom outer casing
boulevard of broken dreams
built up crank axle
bull's nose
capitals of south dakota
Chassigny-Aisey
cinder box
closed-loops
commercial rehabilitation
correlated pair
D/P
dark coloured
digit-transfer trunk
display advert
drain the cup
electromagnetic velocity profiler
emergency cold starting test
esterastin
etoxeridine
EXPLORER-1
external power
fender rod
Ferrokesterite
fishings
flail-type beater
Foster, Stephen Collins
freight container traffic
genus Geophilus
geodesic domes
glucose pentagallate
Gorino
Gregory R.
half-axial
Heffern
herds of cattle
hudal
ilam
impact energies
J-chain
Kaba-san
Kathi
kidbrooke
labion
Lessilur-Prirey tests
let-out
long stimulus
ludoes
MDSS II
memcapacitors
misconvergencs of beams
molinet
moraliste
mountain produce
native hollies
of a verity
operation rate
oriented film
osmosensation
phenylbenzyltin dichloride
piney tallow
pneumatic tensioning device
point value
pre-trading
quiones
radiosonde-rocketsonde set
refactorable
regulation resistance
remakers
saddle heather
sapins
Seclin
selective network
signal service
six-figure salary
size down
snow fox
space suit circulation system
stuck-in-the-mud
superior officer
testing period
tet
time of emergence
time-shared computer utility
tuberculosis of larynx
ultrapasteurization
van der pol
vanderspeigle
viscoelastic strain
visual aphasia
vital qi
while structure