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
absorption error
adjudication of bankruptcy
air data processor
amblyseiuss
automotive
bretteville
bromobenzoly chloride
brown red antimony sulfide
calculators
callanetics
chaikas
chou-shan
COBOL
confluxes
contact butter
Copy Colors from
counter-judge
cyclobutylene
deafferentate
Demetriades
desiderate
deviation of directivity
dezionizes
dugo selo
egg sb. on to
eight across a road
Elatostema angulosum
electric insulating compressed asbestos fibre
epochal psychosis
erythema gyratum
ethnographic film
fabulates
fagine
fatigue data
ficus stenophylla hemsl.
fifth columns
free surface shock wave
fuzzy graph model
generalized hamming code
genus archaeorniss
genus sequoiadendrons
gift cards
gnostic sensibility
grand calorie
Gyrocotylidae
H deficient star
heterodyne receivers
highway statistics
hoplon
horary astrology
houseroom
initial components
instrument leveling
ionization path
is out of use
jcg
jungermannioid
lectisternium (latin)
Leptodermis xizangensis
leukoderma senilis
machine-oriented system
maks
maul-und klauenseuche
menu costs
MGF
molybdic oxide
New Jerseyites
non-reflecting termination
nowpe
operation in three shifts
overgeneralization
PA-AN2
paint-brushes
physical attraction
progress variable
pronger
rebrands
receiving sieve cover
reformalized
rosetta net
rowar
Samiria, R.
say yes
second thoughts
serveuse
service-leds
skin doctor
software subsystem
spooky
spring head
tank volume table
telemetering measurement
testamentary freedom
three-axis control
thymis asthma
toric surface
torikumi
torrent of mountain and hill country
torsional tester
tricylinders
Trigonostemon
walleyealaskapacific pollack (theragra chalcogramma)