时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   Do you sleep alone? Or do you just think you sleep alone? Maybe your bed is not just your bed. Bedbugs are taking over the USA. The little pests are about the size of an apple seed. Many big cities have them. The Big Apple has them. They are in hotels. They are in theaters. They are in department stores. They are in apartment buildings. Their favorite place in an apartment is the bedroom. Their favorite place in a bedroom is the mattress 1. At night they crawl 2 out of the mattress. They suck blood out of whoever is sleeping on "their" mattress. Many victims have red bite marks on their skin the next day. The red marks are ugly. Worse, they usually itch 3 like crazy. Researchers are trying to develop a magic chemical that will kill only bedbugs. Meanwhile, people need to keep their eyes open—especially while they're asleep!



1 mattress
n.床垫,床褥
  • The straw mattress needs to be aired.草垫子该晾一晾了。
  • The new mattress I bought sags in the middle.我买的新床垫中间陷了下去。
2 crawl
vi./n.爬行,匍匐行进;缓慢(费力)地行进
  • We learn to crawl before we learn to walk.我们学会走路之前先要学会爬。
  • She slowed the car to a crawl.她把车开得很慢。
3 itch
n.痒,渴望,疥癣;vi.发痒,渴望
  • Shylock has an itch for money.夏洛克渴望发财。
  • He had an itch on his back.他背部发痒。
学英语单词
additional layer
air tube cooder
alternate installation disk
anomalous film
anovhaploid
anticyclone subsidence
application valve cover gasket
aruwaltja (n. australia)
baidie
baixo
bald erne
Bankim
biabsorption
bismutospherite (bismutosphaerite)
blackorby
briercliffe
bunker tank
Byarezina
carry a bill
CCL42
ceramic condensor
Chinese foot
choke-tube
cross-referring
cybermuseum
dinner shirt
Dobrotesti
downdraught strand cooling
Dworshak Res.
ecogeographical divergence
enterograph
expansion clamp
figged soap
flipped over
fossed
Fusignano
glass fiber lubricant
grade-level
Grezzana
gym muscles
harvest flies
Hastings, Battle of
heeders
hole sorter
hot chamber plunger die casting machine
hydraulic turbine
hygrom of cavum retzii
independent establishment
individual pieces
inverted hats
jus cloacae mittendae
kemosabi
Lasianthus sikkimensis
lensmakers
Magnolia sargentiana
magnomious
mandated
matatas
merrymeetings
middle hemorrhoidal artery
MIEMSS
Morro R.(Moro)
nighttide
Nipissis R.
non-aqueous electrochemistry
Notensil
Parseval's identity
party wire
ph(a)enogenetics
photoflash tube
priming the fuel system
purpuriferous
rapted
regular eye needle
Republic of Slovenia
roll bar
san francisco bays
schieffelin
sebocystoma
second self
service clearance
shurab rud
simulating motor
sken t-log p diagram
slag analysis
smoke density meter
sol protein hydrolysate
spiess
step point
sulfurated lime solution
syphilitic myocardial gumma
test calibration
thankfully
Trizivir
trunk of spinal nerve
twin port
uk deluxe
Vaalies
visual photometry
winkler's oxygen sampling bottle
wire-type fuel element
Xinyu