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 suspicion of
amynthas papulosus
anaspidas
artificial anuses
astral blue
aumonier
bengalia escheri
beta blocker eyedrop
bredahl
carnally
chain dyeing
choice box
cogitability
cometary globule
conduit type power plant
contingency order
convolutional coding
crab louiss
detangling
dispersion field
DR, D.R.
Draft Convention on Combined Transport
electronic images
ex-directory
exception proves the rule
exit prices
Fechner's law
fluorescent character display tube
fotiadi test
gait test
gready
horizon effect
hypereosinophilic
identity increment
IGTP
ikra
inter-level
International Table calorie
irreproachability
Kermet
krauroses
laharpe
lamedh
MAG (maximum available gain)
main hatch
Martian spherule
maximum rise angle of cam
medium prf
membrana tympani reflex
merocyte nuclei
morphographic method
NATO
nitronatrite (nitratine)
non-called code display working
Oryzopsis hymenoides
over weight vehicle
Pareto efficiency
pater nalist
pop down
potatobug
potential attractive force
President Taft
principle of cubic space
prolycopods
pseudokeration
pump houses
quarterlight
redelegates
regulating instrument
Rumonge
saw-toothed waveform
seedbed frame
session end
sieved texture
Sikonge
singles bar
soil blister
soil fertilizer science
split quotation
spookish
squeeze ... out of
stickytips
stowing weight
straight-slope-distance rule
sulcus medianus hepatis
sweep-frequency reflectometer
swivel plow
tachyphylaxis
taffrails
Tatsuyama
thermostromuhr
tobaccy
translation form
two factor model
unreserve
Valleite
wave energy converter
William Jennings Bryan
Xitlalli
yellow fat cell
yohimbehe
zone 3