时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:100个儿童英语小故事


英语课

 



016 The Feather Pen and the Inkstand 


There was an inkstand on the desk in a poet's room. Some strange sounds came out of the bottle. "How amazing! Anything can come out of that inkstand."


The inkstand was proud of herself when she heard that. "Yes, I am unbelievable." The inkstand told this to a feather pen and other writing materials. "Sometimes, even I am amazed 1 by what comes out of me. One drop of me is enough to fill half a piece of paper."


The inkstand had no idea what was inside of her. But she thought she had everything. "Don't you think about yourself at all? If you had a chance to think abort 2 who you really are, you would have found out that the only thing that you can do is drop ink."


The feather pen said that he was the one who wrote on the paper. The inkstand and the feather pen had an argument. "You idiot 3, the poet can write his poems only because of me." The feather pen said that the only thing the inkstand can do is give him ink. They kept arguing.


"Inkstand! You don't know anything. People cannot write without a pen." "Without me, you are just a shabby 4 little bird feather." The feather pen laughed at the inkstand.


At that moment, the poet came back from a concert. He opened the inkstand to write a poem. He started to write about the fantastic violin performance of that night. "The sound of the violin was just magnificent 5. But people think it is easy to play the violin."


The poet had a different opinion from those of other people. He wrote that the wonderful violin performance was because of the player's ability. Neither the inkstand nor the feather pen could recognize that their abilities were all precious 6 until then. They are a gift from God.




adj.吃惊的,惊奇的v.使大为吃惊,使惊奇( amaze的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Just the size of the place amazed her. 仅仅地方之大就使她十分惊奇。
  • I was amazed at her knowledge of French literature. 她的法国文学知识之丰富使我大为惊奇。
v.使流产,堕胎;中止;中止(工作、计划等)
  • The captain instructed them to abort the mission.上尉指示他们中止执行任务。
  • With this button the user can abort the audio sequence.用户可以用该按钮终止音频序列。
n.白痴,傻子,笨蛋
  • Only an idiot would make such a thoughtless remark.只有草包才会说出这样没有头脑的话来。
  • You are behaving like a perfect idiot.你表现得像个十足的白痴。
adj.衣衫褴褛的,不体面的,破旧的,吝啬的,卑鄙的
  • You look rather shabby in those clothes.你的衣着显得有点寒酸。
  • The old house has grown shabby with age.那座老房子因年代久远而变得破旧。
adj.壮丽的,宏伟的;华丽的;极好的
  • The museum that we visited is very magnificent.我们参观的博物馆是很宏伟的。
  • That's a magnificent task.这是一项宏伟的任务。
adj.宝贵的,珍贵的,过于精致的,珍爱的
  • Each life is precious.生命都是宝贵的。
  • Spring rain is as precious as oil.春雨贵如油。
学英语单词
allow
apodactylic
application account
ass in the lion's skin
backhand swing
bean trefoils
Belait Dist.
brace bolt and nut
calheiros
channel protein
colitis gravis
competition theory
crest length of overflow section
crib-size
crossover area
day disk
Desmet extractor
dial pulse generator
discruciate
dorsoposteriorly
economic aggression
elementary state
Emsdale
encipherer
enteric hemorrhage
ethnocentricity
evolutionary theory
faroe is. (faeroes is.)
fast-fits
fictioneer
flower color
form and content
fortuities
free wheeling axle
fuel experimental station
gravel bank
hall mibility
harry houdinis
high yield bond
hopkins' bioclimatic law
idle recirculation loop
inaccuracy of measuring instrument
inferior limit of exchange
integrative
internal mixing gun
izon
kovarsky
Kugoyeyskaya
LE test
lead salt photocathode
leaf bundle
Lemaitre
liver tubes
long-term-benefit
LP (low pass)
luteinizing
lymphatic carcinomatosis
marker yardage
marketing tactics
metapenaeopsis ceylonica
MSW
non-assertions
Ostrogovitsy
parmayn
people's college
Phyllanthus ruber
play policy
price remain stable
prigs
primacy of planning
Prāgpur
pseudocercospora dendrobii
pterigynandrum filiforme
pud whackers
rat's tail
raw silk rings
receiver of rent
retrograde wave
round-off accumulator
scoop condenser
scratch resistant
scrunchi
septoria typhae
skiers
smoothie
star grip knob
tectono-eustacy
the-plate
tracheal aspiration
tritonia
unentangle
uneven data usage
unusual tuning
veselins
vibratory angioedema
wabi
water-level observation
waterscaping
wet-dry strength ratio
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