时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语语境识词


英语课

  Unit 80

As Kids Say It

Tell a Story with a Moral

A primary school class was asked to tell a story with a moral. Kathy went first. "Once, we were driving a basket of ten eggs to market and we it a big bump in the road. The eggs broke. The moral is don't put all your eggs in one basket."

Tammy was next. "Once, we had a dozen chicken eggs, but when hatched, we got only ten chicks. The moral is don't count your chicks before they are hatched."

Then it was Johnny's turn. "When my Aunt Karen was in Desert Storm, her plane was hit. She bailed 1 out over enemy territory with only a bottle of whisky and a machine gun."

"She drank the liquor on the way down so it wouldn't break, and landed in the middle of 100 enemy soldiers. She killed 70 with the machine gun. When she ran out of bullets, she killed the rest with her bare hands."

"What's the moral of that terrible story?" the teacher asked, horrified 2.

"Stay away from Aunt Karen when she's been drinking."

Looking for Dad

A young boy was lost in the mall. He ran ut over to a police office. "I've lost my dad!"

"What's he like?" he asked.

"Soccer and beer."

"Cheese!"

The camera is always in use when our three-year-old grandson, Tyler, comes by. I didn't realize how much until the night of a large thunderstorm. Our son called to tell us that when a bolt of lightning lit up their flat, Tyler turned to the window and said, "Cheese!"

Turning Forty

I recently turned 40, and on that day I took my nine-year-old daughter, Kelsey, shopping. As we crossed the car-park, she exclaimed, "Happy 40th birthday, Mum!"

"Thank you, honey," I said, "but don't broadcast the 40 part, please." I went on to explain that I wasn't upset about turning 40, but if people thought I was younger, that was fine with me.

"Why don't you tell people you're 50 then?" Kelsey asked. "Then you'll look really good!"

Worry

The night before I was scheduled to have major surgery, Jeremy, our nine-year-old son, became worried. "I'm scared, Mum. What if the doctor makes a mistake?"

I calmly explained that the doctor had years of experience and mistakes were unlikely.

"But what if he does?" Jeremy persisted.

"Then he'd be in a lot of trouble," I teased.

"You mean we could sue him," Jeremy brightened, "and I could get a new bike?"



保释,帮助脱离困境( bail的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Fortunately the pilot bailed out before the plane crashed. 飞机坠毁之前,驾驶员幸运地跳伞了。
  • Some water had been shipped and the cook bailed it out. 船里进了些水,厨师把水舀了出去。
a.(表现出)恐惧的
  • The whole country was horrified by the killings. 全国都对这些凶杀案感到大为震惊。
  • We were horrified at the conditions prevailing in local prisons. 地方监狱的普遍状况让我们震惊。
学英语单词
a strake
activated sludge filamentation bulking
adder accumulator
al faw (fao)
alkaline incrusted cystitis
apple jellies
B. & T.
bar disintegrator
baseball-card
be in favour
be no end fine
big-endian and little-endian
bolivian monetary units
boyis
camshaft gear drive
cap flashing
Cardium
cavetti
chinese calligraphy
claimants ledger
conversational report
crab winch
cutting over
delay mixing
deletes
demeurer
dhoruba
diatomaceous chert
double counterpoint in the twelfth
Dove Dale
energy-intensive technology
esc.
Ethershare
evaporable waste
Evenk
expendient
false reed
flour
forward current rating
genuflect
guardaba
hand driven generator
hattrick
heat exchange in sea
ice cream slab
indicine
individual cylinder
inhabited building distance
inherent opening time
ioderma
ko gaku (japan)
Kǒmdǒksan
mace butter
Madison River
mat matter
matrix gate
micro-code
monosyaptic reflex
multiple terminal
N-dimethylcyclohexaneethylamine
Nafrine
nuclear magnetic resonance computerized tomography
ordinal indicator
ordinary budget
Paleo-Siberian languages
Paneth and Hevesy method
passing shot
physik
pilot light burner
polyphenol-aldehyde fibre reinforcement
precompute
preferee
pry bars
Puricama
raphe of scrotum
rejoindure
roller cone
run-up brake
Salix microphyta
salmorejo
salvage group
scammoniae resina
scummers
semibatch selectivity
Serangoon, Pulau
Sitosterln
slamkins
sphinx-likest
sulfhydryl compound
super typhoon
taxable base
transfrontal orbitotomy
trial at nisi prius
triphenylguanidine
ultraviolet absorber fixative
unique array
unsupportively
vertical sliding window
vessel detection
virusin
yellow-orange leaf