时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   I wish I was dead, he said to himself over and over. I wish I was dead. He couldn't remember the last time he had smiled, let alone laughed. He was miserable 1. He had done something really stupid recently. It had cost him a LOT of money. It was driving him crazy. Why had he done it? How could he have been so stupid? He couldn't get it out of his mind. He thought about it every day, all day long. All that money—gone! He couldn't have made a worse financial decision. It was ruining his life. He ate little. He slept little. He talked little. He was a somber 2 man. He kept telling himself, It's only money, It's only money. But that didn't help. Nothing helped. Every day was worse than the previous day. His life had become a nightmare 3—a nightmare that he desperately 4 wanted to end.



1 miserable
adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的
  • It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他,这是可耻的。
  • Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。
2 somber
adj.昏暗的,阴天的,阴森的,忧郁的
  • He had a somber expression on his face.他面容忧郁。
  • His coat was a somber brown.他的衣服是暗棕色的。
3 nightmare
n.恶梦,可怕的事物,无法摆脱的恐惧
  • I was glad to awake from such a nightmare.我庆幸终于从噩梦中醒来了。
  • I had a nightmare last nightand,lost sleep.昨夜我作了个恶梦,失眠了。
4 desperately
adv.极度渴望地,绝望地,孤注一掷地
  • He was desperately seeking a way to see her again.他正拼命想办法再见她一面。
  • He longed desperately to be back at home.他非常渴望回家。
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A and B printing
adiabatic magnetic susceptibility
alken
apigetrin
baffle support flange
behavior relation
belectured
ben trovato
Besnier's rheumatism
capacity of being stained
Caprella
car bottom batch type furnace
centricdiatom
cold red-light lamp
Corcoue-sur-Logne
cross product deviation matrix
curing condition
dahuricus
dashboard mounted radiator
dashpot solenoid unit
despended
ether formalin method
fever-pitches
Fidelista
frattons
froup
glycosaminotrioses
graunching
Gymnostomina
hard coin
heterospermatoxin
hofstra
hoist away
ilmavoimat
Imano-yama
immission
indifferent stability
individual proprietor
induced over-voltage
isidiose
kalanin
koraists
Lancashire County
lannin
late-life crisis
Lindseyville
lower arm
maulerss
megar
Meich'ung
metanolysis
Mileyevo
modulated pulse amplifier
monacanthid
monatomic metal
monocelled
mudhead
Myfortic
natural white
natural-draught transformer
naval electronics laboratory international algebraic complier
one time adjudication system
osteochondritis vertebralis infantilis
para-appendicitis
Peutingerian
phenergan hydrochloride
phialai
polychlorides
precompresses
railroad crossing gate
Ramus stapedialis
re spooling machine
retrobulbar pupillary reflex
rioall
rosannas
row against wind and tide
rumphella antipathes
shut-ups
simonism
single prime ideal
siouxes
skin paint
somunurol
special guard
stone
supergain
superior quadrigeminal bodies
superplastic forming and diffusion bond (sfdb)
takht
tealeave
testing of structural clay products
thermoelectric refrigeration
thermometer adaptor
trichostomum brachydontium bruch
truant officer
tuberculosis of colon
turn in one's grave
undilatable
waste oil disposal facility
Western Europe
Witt ring
worming out of