时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   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。
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alicyclic stem-nucleus
andre derains
antirobbery
aria da capo
articulated ventilation
bessel filters
black content
Boadella, Embalse de
byronism
cafe noir
coccidicolous
comrey
dekawatt
electrical locomotive
eye ya
feedback-induced intercavity noise
fez
flake salt
fuel-reprocessing plant
fundamental species
gaseous detector
Great Ragged I.
green crown budding
grummest
Gurmukhi
haranguer
heavy tail
heintzeite
ice crystal theory
insulation wax
insurable property
international chess
irregular heartbeat
jack lemmons
john von neumanns
kinetophones
Kirané
lead plummet
Lockett
look see through rose-coloured spectacles
Luschka's glands
modulator vacuum gauge
morristowns
mortariums
Naida
nanocontainment
nanoporosities
neutral mutation
nontraumatic rupture of bladder
not in a position to
nuclear-plant
occlusal anatomy
one-time use camera
optical tooling bar
out of position
pachymetry
Pari, Pulau
perishable product
photosynthetic bacteria
plain pipet
Platberg
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plumbine
primary immune
progenity
pull-off plug
Puymorens, Col de
quasi-ergodic
rate distortion bound
Reciprocal LC
refeed
remote ram
restore file system resource
revoiced
rimples
scorne
Seabee
second to none
shihu mingmu pills
shuttle flying
signal lag
Simonsen phenomenon
social impact assessment (sia)
special in carbide tipped
spread-spectrum technique
start a hare
stenhomalus cleroides
sterre
store image
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superimposed clause
syle
system advisory board
traffic dispersion
transformation loss
transmission array
treasure up
turbaries
urgent funds
Windows version
ziga
zone of capillarity