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
abscondedly
adrenoceptor
aigues-mortes (aquae mortuae)
apas
apyknomorphous
aquaticums
assimilative root
autolytic peritonitis
barari
be supposed to be
bocland
brains trust,Brains Trust
bulk circulation
Bullers ring
cable cord tyre
canonical LR parser
cathartin
channel requests
clothesbrushes
coarse compensation
coica
commiphoric acid
concarnation
convoy routing
dect
dim view
disappearing finger auger
drum separator with counter-rotating magnet
dry vacuum distillation
duolocal
end tooth
exercise machines
falcongentle
fastness to rubbing
finger tremor
fogelberg
free up something
free-falling
friction cleaning
general charles de gaulles
glacial eustasy
GM_adjective-phrases-position
gone into details
got in touch with
graphite resistor furnace
hewk
high reactor pressure
horse-dealer
hummin
hydraulic binder
Identikit picture
ill-humo(u)redness
inflation of credit
knock against each other
know sb by sight
Kongwa
late pay traffic
launch airplane
lie at the lurch
low cabinet
low sundays
manager's discretionary limits
mess-up
michelsons
Mosby
multi-center
multicamera filming
multivalued accretive
Mycoderma aceti
nanoelectrospray
non-suppurative
one-victory
opium takers
optical character recognition device
periost-, perioste-, periosteo-
Petrosani(Petroseni)
piston alloy
plancheite
press liquid
private line interconnection service
prunello
purple blotch
reversed phase coil
sable island
sales realization method
salinating
server mirroring
signature subject to
spacecraft launch
split-hand
spy ring
strike fear in
string instrumentalist
tin oxide electrode brick
treedom
two-stroke cycle single acting
typed out
uberous
uncooled
water of life
winnowing baskets
write-only