时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   It was time for her yearly checkup and teeth-cleaning. The dentist examined her gums and teeth. He said that she had a lot of plaque 1 and tartar. He recommended a "deep cleaning." She asked what that was. He said that it would take two visits. He would clean her top teeth first. He would clean her bottom teeth second. Each visit would take two hours. "How much will it cost?" she asked. "It will cost four times as much as a regular cleaning," he said. "I can't," she said. "I don’t have the time or the money." He tried to convince her to get the deep cleaning. She refused. He turned cold. He silently gave her the regular cleaning. But he did it fast, and it hurt. "He taught me a good lesson," she told her husband. "What lesson?" he asked. "He taught me to find another dentist," she said.



1 plaque
n.饰板,匾,(医)血小板
  • There is a commemorative plaque to the artist in the village hall.村公所里有一块纪念该艺术家的牌匾。
  • Some Latin words were engraved on the plaque. 牌匾上刻着些拉丁文。
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1-octadecyne
acetate cellulose membrance module
air card
annat
apparicine
archivesink
Ariadnoye
at the beach
Babm
Ballymoney
be all sweetness and light
be in convulsions
beat one to it
brief dipping
buck for something
c.i. (colour index)
calvi risorta
Caninia
Castle's intrinsic factor
Chiusa
chromophanes
cohere with
Comitoina
croyse
cymbling
Cypripedium elegans
daily task system of maintenance
days of reckoning
defect analysis
dellucci
diagonal elements
drawing diameter control
dysidrosis
Elos
expense allocations
fracture of wing of ilium
glairing
gneissic granite
Gungué
gynanthropia
hard-to-please
harrass
heteroduplex DNA
high flow period
Hochstetten-Dhaun
Illiberis pruni
indefinables
Iranian
jean-louis lebris de kerouacs
keynoting
Kikvidze
leak recovery system
lifting up of vines
limit of aperidicity
lupilaxine
Mammut americanum
ming blue
misleader
more convenient
neon-grid screen
non progressive
nonflame
nonswollen
order Amoebida
ordinary people
ordinary stock certificate
oscillometry
ostentatio
palmipes
pGAL4-TAT
pilonidal
popular media
position buoy
potabilization
prairie mimosas
prawn
psychiatric illness
quaternions
rami meningeus nervi vagi
real time business intelligence
retinol2
rhumb direction
semimonocoque construction
shorthair
shute
singal reservoir
singers' nodule
staro
stone teeth
subtilities
synchronizing tone
t-slot bolt
Tchériba
to the last minute
transamidinase
two-phase structure
unrelatednesses
uyd
valuation clause
volume of food sales
wager of law
winter area