时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   The island had many trees and animals. One day, many people in small boats came to live on the island. They went into the woods. They hunted the animals. They killed many animals the first six months. "Maybe we are killing 1 too many animals," said Jacob. The others laughed. "Do you see the stars that shine tonight? There are more animals than there are stars," Abraham said. But every year they had to hunt a longer time than the year before. Every year they saw fewer animals. Every year Jacob said, "Maybe we are killing too many animals." Every year Abraham said, "There are more animals than there are stars. They have learned 2 how to hide from us. They know we want to eat them." One day they returned from hunting. They had hunted for a week. They had killed just one animal. "We must find another island," said Abraham.



1 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
2 learned
adj.有学问的,博学的;learn的过去式和过去分词
  • He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
  • In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里,他被视为有学问的人。
学英语单词
a great hand at something
adult higher education
adune
Age of Reason
algorithmic thinking
aristotypes
automatic coil winding
begg'd
billetor
Binsdorf
blade shape construction
business undertaking
buzz around
cascade cycle
cause and effect chain system diagram
cementoexostosis
cephalometric tracing
chemical and biological agents
Christian liturgy
continuous medium hypothesis
Del key
detecting instruments
directory handling routine
doodads
dosantos
doublechecked
duration of relay operation
electron speed regulator
end-point analysis
enterprise edition
exit pupil
formative
Gauguin
genus alstonias
geologic time scale
glycozoline
Greenlandics
gutter board
haberlo
hortulanus
huntergatherers
independentists
Japanese medlar
jinkai senjitsu
kit for plane tabling
line with an uneven profile
links links fabric
literary-minded
low temperature humidity chamber
lube flux
magical Negro
many-valued logic
measurement point (mp)
Migdal theory
mobile payments
muffism
nulled work
open cycle control
overpublicize
pambazos
Paratran System
parlour grand
pengson
pinner
plate tracery
progoneate
radiographing
recording session
rossmann
runcle
sampling survey
scriptedness
scroll pivoter snips
sewing-machine operator
showboats
Sindh
Soqotran
sorleys
spreader frictioning
standard discharge point
stochastic 0L system
stream flow depletion
submandibular duct
suck up
super-pure
superdialect
supersport
Suzuki Bunji
swings out
sym-dimethyl-p-phenylene-diamine
thiomedan
Tory
trash eliminator
unacceptableness
unwelcome guest
vergences
verminy
vested interests
wear sth down
wettin'
zooxanthellate