胡敏读故事记单词托福词汇141
时间：2018-12-30 作者：英语课 分类：胡敏托福词汇记单词
A spoilt daughter
"I used to tend livestock-pigs and sheep mostly---after I first managed to get out of Yugoslavia. It was loathsome 1 work, and the location wasn’t very nice, but what could I do! It provided me with a livelihood 2. After that, I used to load coal at a coal merchant’s, then drove a locomotive for a while. With the money I saved I was finally able to rent some decent living quarters in a decent locality for my family, and buy a litter of puppies, ” said Mirko Brankovic, reminiscing. “My son is at Harvard now, but my daughter goes to school locally, 16 she is. You should see her with her lithe 3 and lethen body. She is a lively kid if there was one. What she likes most of all is going to the disco, where she does a dance called the locomotion 4. The trouble is she is quite spoilt, like so many young kids nowadays, and the house is littered with her belongings 5, not only that, she litters the school yard with her chewing gum wrappers and we’ve been called in to see the principal more than once. When she is not at the disco, she is hanging around the lobby at some hotel or rather, trying to be picked up by someone and invited for dinner. Sometimes we have trouble locating her. Her mom’s worried out of her mind about her.” Mirko sighed. “yeah her favorite food is lobster 6 salad, while we may do with liver and onions at home. That young lady is a load of trouble and things can only get worse as far as I can see.”
- The witch hid her loathsome face with her hands.巫婆用手掩住她那张令人恶心的脸。
- Some people think that snakes are loathsome creatures.有些人觉得蛇是令人憎恶的动物。
- Appropriate arrangements will be made for their work and livelihood.他们的工作和生活会得到妥善安排。
- My father gained a bare livelihood of family by his own hands.父亲靠自己的双手勉强维持家计。
- His lithe athlete's body had been his pride through most of the fifty - six years.他那轻巧自如的运动员体格，五十六年来几乎一直使他感到自豪。
- His walk was lithe and graceful.他走路轻盈而优雅。
- By land,air or sea,birds are masters of locomotion.无论是通过陆地，飞越空中还是穿过海洋，鸟应算是运动能手了。
- Food sources also elicit oriented locomotion and recognition behavior patterns in most insects.食物源也引诱大多数昆虫定向迁移和识别行为。
- I put a few personal belongings in a bag.我把几件私人物品装进包中。
- Your personal belongings are not dutiable.个人物品不用纳税。