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
6-aminouracil
ACCSA
achromatopsias
aminotriazole polymer
arranged around pistil
baryglossia
bell-shaped suspension insulator
Brahmaur
broad band TR tube
carbon isotope ratio
carcelia (carceliella) septima
cartridgelike
Catananche caerulea
catastrophe bonds
cesium plasma
chemical reflex
chemico-thermal treatment
chispa
cobaltochelatases
composite method
cryptoporous
daynurses
deeds poll
deformity of pyloric ring
detail audit strips
duplicate patient
Elie Wiesel
emphasize on
epigraphical
featherless biped
flexible programming system
frame-mounted
furnace flue gas analysis
high-roof
hirmos
homoeotherm
hydraulic bottom-hole pump
ilexonin
instructor station
interbank exchange rate
it was all one could do not to
j-k flip-flop
jacaranone
jet area
juxtaposings
kaffles
Kodiak Seamount
kota bharu (kota baharu)
lifetime distribution
low vertical photograph
Maine-Soroa
make them
marinobufagin
materials requirements planning
maximal unipotent subgroup
mccalman
membrane biology
mid-boosts
miliolite
Mohr's theory
net function
Newtownhamilton
obligatory parasitism
pacing indicator
Pederson conductivity
perfection of lattice
postcourse
proton gradient
rare earth ion
rat-line
real contract
red grouses
right-hand fine threaded drill pipe
rightmost derivation
rockerish
Santa Barbara Res.
sarfati
sea cole
self-presentations
severe injury
sheep cradle
siphon jet w.c.pan
small-sample assay system
State University of New York
surtax exemptions
tail stings
TALB
terrace cover
terrachlor
tetraploid (nemec 1910)
tharre
tongue bars
top aileron
transverse metacenter above the base line
trench plain
tympanic artery
urgench
UV erasable PROM (EPROM)
Valeriana fauriei
viscoinelasticity
water exit interval
zigzag riveting