时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


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Jimmy lives on the second floor of a six-unit apartment building. His front door has two locks -- a security deadbolt, and a regular door handle lock. The front door also has a peephole -- a tiny piece of glass through which Jimmy can look out his door at about eye-level to "preview" who is knocking on his door or ringing his doorbell.


The peephole is a security device, but Jimmy never uses it. When someone knocks, he just opens the door. First of all, he lives in a safe neighborhood, so security is not really a problem. Second, people rarely knock on Jimmy's door, so he is always eager to greet a visitor.


Before you can knock on the front door, you have to push the button on the black screen door to open the screen door. The screen door has an inside lock on it, but the lock has not worked since the screen door was installed more than two years ago. This has bothered Jimmy from day one. Today, Jimmy finally decided 1 to do something about the lock on the screen door. It was a nice, warm sunny day. Jimmy was in his shorts -- no flip-flops, no shirt.


The lock was part of the screen door pushbutton handle. The outside and inside handles were held together with just two screws. Jimmy got a flathead screwdriver 2 and loosened both screws. He kept adjusting the screws, and pushing on the outside button. Eventually he adjusted the screws enough to where the lever stayed in the locked position when he pushed on the outside button. Finally, he had made the right adjustment.


But now he needed to put a spacer on the inside handle to maintain that adjustment. He found a piece of plastic that was just the right thickness. He inserted the plastic between the handle and the doorframe itself, and then he tightened 3 the two screws. Bingo! It worked perfectly 4. He could push on the outside button with all his might, and the lever would remain locked. Jimmy grinned. The screen door finally worked properly!


Jimmy had fixed 5 a two-year-old problem in less than an hour. He was ecstatic. He returned the screwdriver to the toolbox, thinking “I'm a genius.”


 



adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
n.螺丝起子;伏特加橙汁鸡尾酒
  • He took a screwdriver and teased out the remaining screws.他拿出螺丝刀把其余的螺丝卸了下来。
  • The electric drill can also be used as a screwdriver.这把电钻也可用作螺丝刀。
收紧( tighten的过去式和过去分词 ); (使)变紧; (使)绷紧; 加紧
  • The rope holding the boat suddenly tightened and broke. 系船的绳子突然绷断了。
  • His index finger tightened on the trigger but then relaxed again. 他的食指扣住扳机,然后又松开了。
adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地
  • The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
  • Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
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Ackland
Aix-Marseille
alludes to
Aureolaria pedicularia
beshrouding
Bessarion
breast-height diameter
brigadiers general
capacity constraint function
chris-craft
clearing and controlling center
cobalt(ii) linoleate
combination turret and copying lathe
coome
correct an error
counting statistics
CPFA
cpvc
Cribb
crown-work
cursor selection field
Dariveren
de power
defensive lock-out
delay retention effect
Didymocarpus adenocalyx
dishd
distressrocket
dumpled
excitonutrient
fash one's thumb about
financial net present value
force magnifier
forest resource
foundation seed nursery
foyer de danse
full-width kier boiling
go into committee
grade of steel
habropoda tainanicola tainanicola
hammer-forging
high concept
high-grade carbon steel
hoffmann-la-roche
Hop o' My Thumb
i-fel
intrinsic strength of liquids
JDMJ
Kallavesi
Lasette
Leroux's method
local hormone
low melting point metal
low-lifers
Lynn Grove
Mobius syndrome
Moroccan crises
music school
myasthenias
negative ion generator
nine-to-fiver
non-insulated container
not a laughing matter s
Osterzhausen
overseas call
packing fraction loss
parosmia
peracchi
phosglycin
plastic resist
pomophobia
protoanthropic
QAP
rated contact current
Rauvolfia yunnanensis
Santa Elena, C.
scheduled frequency
second-stare treatment
shade curtain
short-selling
SL-type cable (separate lead type cable)
solid acid catalyst
St-Priest-de-Champs
St. Simon
stripper shovel
sulton
swelling value
Swiss file
temporary runway
test trunk
tetrasodium pyrophosphates
thermodegradation
thioindoxylic acid
tidal compensation
titanium(ii) sulfide
to let bygones be bygones
tout for votes
vapor pressure chart
vicar general
Walysshe
washingtonias
Wilson's theorem