时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

  Toyota was in the national news. It was recalling a million cars. It wanted to check all their brakes. Jack 1 was driving his new Toyota. He dialed 911. "Help! My brakes don't work!" he said. He told the dispatcher where he was. The dispatcher called the highway patrol. A highway patrolman pulled in front of Jack's car. He slowed down until Jack's front bumper 2 touched his rear bumper. He carefully braked. Both cars slowly stopped. Jack got out of his car. He hugged the patrolman. A TV news helicopter was filming everything. Jack was on the national TV news. "It was terrible," he said. "I almost died. Of course, I'm going to sue Toyota." Toyota examined Jack's car. It said nothing was wrong with the brakes. A newspaper reported that Jack was $700,000 in debt. He had missed his last two car payments. "Something's fishy 3 here," said the newspaper reporter.



1 jack
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
2 bumper
n.(汽车上的)保险杠;adj.特大的,丰盛的
  • The painting represents the scene of a bumper harvest.这幅画描绘了丰收的景象。
  • This year we have a bumper harvest in grain.今年我们谷物丰收。
3 fishy
adj. 值得怀疑的
  • It all sounds very fishy to me.所有这些在我听起来都很可疑。
  • There was definitely something fishy going on.肯定当时有可疑的事情在进行中。
学英语单词
a household name
A-Rest
Afromericans
airscrew pitch indicator
amplitude encoder
Anasa
annular cascade
apparent radar centre
auxiliary-powered vessel
belt of wandering
Beltheim
beryllium carbide fiber
bipolaris cynodontis
bituminous concrete
blind investment
Bochoumanga
body-poppings
books of judith
bridgette
centrally controlled network
cherry l.
chimaeroid
chloromethyloxirane
clear cell acanthoma
collaria
come good
coposite circuit
diesel cylinder oil
dike lock
dipnetting
double-pole double-throw
downstroyed
drill string compensator (dsc)
edge breaking
electronic fuel injector
extrafaucial
finitely generated group
first-nighter
flange with screw
flight Mach number
flooding damage
fore-hearth
gawkishly
geodize
grain packing
Grand Manan
grit one's teeth
grunions
hairweavings
hevers
Holmes City
idle man
in times to come
integrated retailing
international ohm
iso hardness diagram
kalbfleisch
luna moths
mastoid tenderness
methyl-thiopentose
monolighic
multiphase transformation
narrativa
over-processes
papier-mach
pectolinarin
photo-engraving
photo-magneto-electric effect
pinch laser
plate dinner
propane gas
pulsed cavitation
rainpants
reacting system
remediated
rough tunnel
salvation
school-leaver
score the equalizer
see life
sha ?rh p'u chi
shelve
signalises
solution heat treated condition
staphylococcal enterotoxin bs
stern ornament
sudokeratosis
superfamily Tyrannidae
supraxiphoid
Tectopontine
terrestrial heat flow value
tidal waves
ultramagnetic
under-pinnings
USB card reader
Use first
utilization coefficient of energy
Utrogestan
ventricular ectatic aneurysm
villa sanjurjo
waterdrops
xviiier