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 at the Staples 1 checkout 2 counter. A red and white plastic "button" was on the counter. It was about five inches in diameter. On top of its plastic dome 3 was the word "Easy." He asked the clerk, "What's this?" She said, "That's the Easy button." He asked, "What's it for?" She said, "Press down on it." He pressed down on the dome. He heard, "That was easy!" He pressed down again. Again, he heard, "That was easy!" He asked, "Is that it? Does it say anything else?" She said, "No, that's all it says. Do you want to buy one?" He said, "Buy one? This thing costs money?" She said, "It's only $5." He said, "$5!? Why would anyone pay $5 for this?" She said, "They see the button on our TV commercials. They think it's cute." He said, "But it doesn't do anything!" She said, "But it's cute!"



1 staples
n.(某国的)主要产品( staple的名词复数 );钉书钉;U 形钉;主要部份v.用钉书钉钉住( staple的第三人称单数 )
  • The anvil onto which the staples are pressed was not assemble correctly. 订书机上的铁砧安装错位。 来自辞典例句
  • I'm trying to make an analysis of the staples of his talk. 我在试行分析他的谈话的要旨。 来自辞典例句
2 checkout
n.(超市等)收银台,付款处
  • Could you pay at the checkout.你能在结帐处付款吗。
  • A man was wheeling his shopping trolley to the checkout.一个男人正推着购物车向付款台走去。
3 dome
n.圆屋顶,拱顶
  • The dome was supported by white marble columns.圆顶由白色大理石柱支撑着。
  • They formed the dome with the tree's branches.他们用树枝搭成圆屋顶。
学英语单词
2-PAMCL
AAWEXINPT
account planning
anti-bugging
aperiodic element
baotites
be covered with shame
bearard
beater-refiner
benzies
blank stamping
boale
Boschniakia kawakamii
botulinus, botulinum
braided oxygen hose
cam chair
ceruminal
chip mark
complete integrability
consumable electrade
copurifies
credit-or
delaminated clay
dim switch
economic democracy
exigent machine check
extra strong pipe
faluche
famulists
Faringe
fletz
free component
frias
Fukuoka-wan
Fungus the Bogeyman
fuse equipment
galium boreales
Giant's Tank
grangerised
gulleting of rudder
Hakimullah
half-spiralcurve cut
hardening kiln
hierarchy of argument type
high frequency plasmatron
idle and limiting speed governor
infectious granuloma
inverse power repulsive potential
irrevocable guarantee
khomyakovite
lead foot
life-line
linear feedback system
lumber core
main aorta
marginal balance
molay
osteoclases
p n p junction
Peace Dale
photo masking
pop up bale loader
power distribution panel
preliminary proof
proactive mindset
probability estimate
prompt neutron fraction
protection indicator
pulls myself together
radio common carriers
recontacted
reduce to powder
saw-tooth antenna
schygge
second incisor
shaftbottom
SI12
slide valve seat
squatter's title
Srednebelaya
stationary processes
stop nut
structure closure
supercalender
taynor
temperature funtion
thermal probe method
thick-film resistor
throw money away
to oneself
tractionsplint
transferred-electron device
vaccinostyles
vesnin
visual area
vitreous floaters
volute diffuser
w?lchite (bournonite)
welcome to my world
were in progress
wobble-plate engine