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。
学英语单词
acne varioliformis miliaris
aerial form
algorithmic rules
angle of twist
anti-insulinase
aquisition of patent
Astacus japonicus
Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules
bartsches
base ion exchange
benzoylimino
blazarlike activity
bonnethead
branles
cade
Chwaszczyno
cottonize
Crysocolla
cylindrical jaw
deagnostic output file
elevator driving rack
environment noise
equiss
erosion resistance
evaporation from water surface
extrusion prevention
fart tip
fiber-optic bundle
firmianas
flatteresses
free amino acids (faa)
fresh air room
geo-
geseous conduction rectifier
happy shop
hydrologic regimen
hydrolytic degradatiion
in situ field measurement
index of speciality
infant mortality
isometrically
kalyvas
keystone corner
launder sand slicer
line-to-line correlation
mathie seed
matrimonial guilt
microlance
microsieve
monoecious
mulos
nm (nanometer)
odd men out
oil in water type coolant
omentin
open-ended working group
origination fee
otophysans
personal interests
phenomes
pingy
PoE injector
precisionaire
preview dialer
quartz-porphyrite
quick action cylinder cap
RACWA
recovery in kind
run through something
scattering diffusion tensor
Scincella
scroller
self-blamer
sick day
sixty four thousand dollar question
span check
steaming the medicinal herbs
stinkbomb
Stirling, Mt.
stosstheraphy
strathkelvin
sulphur free-cutting steel
sunny yellow
surface micelle
tachyplesin
tack sth on
tail-end booster
telescopic system
three way pipe
Torikabuto-yama
transfilter
translucently
Tugaske
two cents(')worth
underdetection
unisol process
uranosilite
vf
weard
Youngs, L.
zehr
zygomaticoorbital foramen