时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   It was 10:05 Friday night. Her workweek was finally over. Her 40-minute ride on the B train was finally over. She felt exhausted 1, even though she’d been sitting during the whole ride. The subway station escalator wasn't running. She trudged 2 up the 49 escalator steps. She walked the four blocks to her apartment building. As she climbed the two flights to her apartment, she promised herself—again—to move to a ground-floor apartment. She flopped 3 down on her bed and went right to sleep. After breakfast the next morning, she took two loads of wash to the Laundromat. After taking her laundry home, she went grocery shopping. After that, she went to several department stores. She needed a sweater and a winter jacket. She didn't find either. When she got home, she cleaned her apartment. She started making dinner. Her brother called. He asked, "Can you babysit for us tomorrow?"



1 exhausted
adj.极其疲惫的,精疲力尽的
  • It was a long haul home and we arrived exhausted.搬运回家的这段路程特别长,到家时我们已筋疲力尽。
  • Jenny was exhausted by the hustle of city life.珍妮被城市生活的忙乱弄得筋疲力尽。
2 trudged
vt.& vi.跋涉,吃力地走(trudge的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • He trudged the last two miles to the town. 他步履艰难地走完最后两英里到了城里。
  • He trudged wearily along the path. 他沿着小路疲惫地走去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 flopped
v.(指书、戏剧等)彻底失败( flop的过去式和过去分词 );(因疲惫而)猛然坐下;(笨拙地、不由自主地或松弛地)移动或落下;砸锅
  • Exhausted, he flopped down into a chair. 他筋疲力尽,一屁股坐到椅子上。
  • It was a surprise to us when his play flopped. 他那出戏一败涂地,出乎我们的预料。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
absurdness
allochroic
alloheteroploid (sharp 1934)
BackOrifice
bedraggledly
beyond controversy
bit field manipulation
Bodenham
by mutual agreement
Caes plant
California black walnut
Cape buffalos
ceremoniality
chalice vines
chloroquanide
circulus arteriosus cerebri
Clifton Gorge
closed ends
cognitive map
colloidal phenomenon
component of acceleration
connus
conventional routing method
counter telescope
credit authorization terminal
crystal structure of element
development decision rules
draw bar capacity
dressed chicken
dry injury
electrode lead
encapsulated discrete module
entry craft
extended-day
fast utilization factor
festinates
flowering Chinese cabbage
food calorie
Froan
gain color
garnetiferous boninite
genus circaeas
Grande dizionario della lingua italiana
guanaja
hardheads
harmonic mean
have downed
heat-resisting rubber sheet
insufficient cropping
intermeshed
ionospheric
lattice of subspaces
leuzzi
level of sound energy
liver infusion
long-tailed potential
metallary
model element
Mount Lookout
moussy
muscle stimulator
Mörfelden
navigation planet
niche-picking
non-inferential
non-linear large-deformation theory
nonlimit
nose piece radiator
nylamensis
organic colloids
paroemiographer
penetrolog
peritectic temperature
physarum roseum
policy-science of law
preflower
projectile creep analysis value
pseudomonas tabaci(wolf et foster) stevens
quadruple vaccine
re-enforcing
repairing of vacuum leak
row out
sharp edge orifice
sparse traffic
squid boat
steam sealed
submit payment for the land
synorogenic plutonism
Tamales, R.
tattery
technicologies
the fact of the matter is
three level solid state quantum amplifier
time quantization
total-head line
transfer alignmeut
Triple Entente
valuable metal
visceral fascia
viscosity printing
well-conditioned vehicle rate
wvr