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
abandon ship training
according to value
alkyl-transferase
anthology
anti-flood interceptor
approach for collecting evidence
arrive make a decision
B. F.
Ban Tha Kham
barometric
beating my brains out
bias in proportional control
bir ganduz
boring for shafting
break down into simple compounds
carbon dioxide acidosis
center of affinity
chechnyas
cleirach
closed bid
commodity flow
consumption expenditure tax
Cranfield fluidics
cubhood
declaration of estimated tax
desmolase
detain for
directaxis
dispersion ladder
drinking game
drug-abusing
dual-role
dum casta
dvo
Echinochimaeroidei
exciting injection
fill or material
flamper
flood-freezing injury
forest regeneration
fundus (uterus)
general adaption syndrome
general aeronautical material
get short shrift
gopalpur
hand-driers
Hypoxis aurea
isotopic tracer
katoh
lease rate factor
levyclaudite
lower camshaft worm gear
magnomious
mass flowmeter
master touch
mechanical template plot
mirabilitum dehydratum
opsoclonia
paleobioecology
paleology
paperscale
Pasteur reaction
PBX - private branch exchange
polar coordinate curve
poliglecaprone
price index regulation
prime line
pumped out
pyramidella lamarck
R.F.T. typing
receiver recorder
relief welding
rotary joint (pneumatic)
Rudauli
SAOC
scanlin
Schellingism
secondary opening
sexual benighted
signal transmission line
simple RLC parallel circuit
single dwelling
single loop winding method
small-end
subducting lithosphere
subphylum urochordatas
SYNTOMIDAE
Takhteh Pol
telephone key
Ternstroemia hainanensis
tetraplocaulous
thak
third differential
to-part
Token Bus Netware
toleranced dimension
trigger stop
unldirectional heart block
vagabundus
Vialpha
Wolbeck
xanthogenic