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。
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absolutisation
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Anniversary Day
anode circuit breaker
arithmeticity
Arthur Seymour Sullivan
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assurest
beared pink
biological cells
bleaching action
blue-skies research
Bodzanow
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chaetodon xanthurus
chamenol
chile con carne
commercial foundry
Core Holding
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croftings
cyclotron-accelerated
decumulation
deferred bonds
denouncings
dig your toes in
Dioctophyma
discharge time
domestic money supply
doublesheath
dual bore hole technology
dynamic segment attribute
earthing
echinaster luzonicus
embryonic feather
fine-gauge machine
flight map
gas-compression cable
general tail
Gln
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heat room
heir collateral
high frequency pulse generator
hispan
hydroxy-vinylacetic acid
indium dichloride
ipolearoside
isolated lagoon
Johnston Atoll
joint-forming
knowledge-based expert system
Korshun method
LARPed
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log conversion voltmeter
magnetic wave
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metalling
microvolumetric flask
mistura alba
name substitution
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page-description language
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parting boad
photoamplifier
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Pitot probe of boundary layer
precipitophore
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ST_science_measurements-of-temperature
Stavropolka
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unmanipulable
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