时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   The TV volume suddenly rose. It was a commercial. He grabbed the TV remote. He quickly lowered the volume to #7. A while later, a new commercial break started. The volume went up to #12 by itself. He lowered it back to #7. He watched TV every night. He had to turn the volume down about 20 times a night. He talked to his friends and family. They all said they had the same problem with TV volume. They all hated it. They all thought nothing could be done about it. He thought differently. He called his cable company. It said to call the networks. He called a network. It said to call his congressman 1. He called his congressman. The aide said to call the FCC. He called the Federal Communications Commission. A woman answered. She said the FCC had no control over TV volume. She didn't think anyone did.



1 Congressman
n.(美)国会议员
  • He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
  • The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。
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-dismase
absorbed
acu-
AN Other
angle of shear
asymmetric interface
barley extract
basilobelba parmata
bifilar electrometer
bioxide
blackgin
building inspector
calf dozer
candanedo
chargin'
chopped lightning impulse
clathrochelated
clearance cavitation
cold water fish
continuous thermal current
coppernob
corndodger
Corrigan's respiration
cuclotron
cumli
de plano
dentofacial orthopedic
dinosaurias
discoidal areolet
eisful
electrical skin responses
Esterel
flirtigigs
for reals
geigerscope
Hedyotis paridifolia
hornpikes
hydroxymethylglutarase
indication of source
inflammatory gonorrhea
input/output program communication block
inverse order type
invert
light station
light-brown
linaria japonica miq.
linear diminishing
Liqui-Gels
literalism
loop voltage
Luapula River
marriage agreement
may-aug
midwifery phantom
mirabilis longifloras
murex coppingeri
natatores
non-flagrant delict
non-slip material
not worth a pin
objective case
ogee flange
OMAC
PAL (process assembler language)
pantothenol
parafollicular cells of thyroid gland
parallel-serial computer
Pavlova
perth and kinross
phosphoarabonic acid
photo-synchronous pick-up
piline
Pittsworth
polyfluortetraethylene
power lift control
prairie fowls
predictive technology
quickenings
Redearth
roller compaction riveting press
s d problem
Santa Fe Bogota
sceptre quartz
shikarees
skin radar tracking
straight stream
straw braid
substitute arbitrator
Sǔngho
teletext character codes
three tier structure
time-contrast-index curve
tourism-based
transition order
turn up one's nose at
uncharging
unrepresentative item
vitamine C
Warilau, Pulau
water tight work
wind patches
yield per unit area