时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   The couple stood in line at Bellevue Hospital. They were on the fourth floor. They were first in line. Three workers sat behind the main desk. One of them, a slim woman, said, "Step down." Doug and Sandra looked at each other. Step down? There was no step. The floor was completely 1 flat. The only steps were in the stairwell beside the elevator. The woman repeated 2 herself. She looked right at them. They pointed 3 to themselves. She nodded 4. They stepped forward. "Did you say 'step down'?" Doug asked. She nodded. Sandra gave her a piece of paper. "There are no steps," Doug said. "You should say 'step forward.' No one understands 'step down.'" The woman wrote a phone number on the piece of paper. She said, "Call this number on Monday." She gave the paper back to Sandra. She looked at the people next in line. "Step down," she said.



1 completely
adv.完全地,十分地,全然
  • She never completely gave up hope.她从不完全放弃希望。
  • I feel completely in the dark on this question.这件事使我感到茫然。
2 repeated
adj.反复的,再三的,重复的;累;频仍
  • repeated absences from school 一再缺课
  • the prisoner's repeated denials of the charges against him 囚犯再三否认对他的指控
3 pointed
adj.尖的,直截了当的
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
4 nodded
v.点头( nod的过去式和过去分词 );打盹;打瞌睡;点头致意
  • He nodded absently, his attention absorbed by the screen. 他专心注视着屏幕,只是心不在焉地点了点头。
  • She nodded her head in agreement. 她点头表示同意。
学英语单词
a. comitans n. ischiadici
Aarup
air separator mill
alftalat
algebraic fundamental group
Anabaseine
animal-welfares
anni mirabiles
asphaltic pyrobitumen
Astrakhanian
banat
barmore
bell metal ore
blackhail
blastozoid
bloodvessels
Borloo
bulk cargo container
carbonochloridic acid
Carolingian dynasty
centrusts
circular dividing machines
circumferential ridging
cofinality
cognitive evaluation theory
control rod fuel follower
crowbarring technique
CSUnet
deep camber
Dermoxine
disagreeing
discharge bend
double-edgedness
dritten
ductile alloy
early-on
eight below
eimco
electric penetration assembly
Elepsin
error trade
exe.
farm product procurement
feinglosite
flabbed
flight separation
footprint evidence
fork in the road
furn
Galium linearifolium
garbage bags
generator motor (generator/motor)
gestates
glass harmonicist
inhibitory-gate
Innerste
interrupt driven system
ism
ISTJ
K-truss
lemniscus lateralis
lyinger
m. obliquus abdominis externus
magnetic starting switch
materials usage standards
matrix eigenvalue
meaningful connection
moroles
nodular subepidermal fibrosis
not be sb's day
Nuttal
OADA
ocean power generation
paleomagnetosphere
penicillium italicum wehmer
photometrist
pitcher's box
plateau tropical north-fringe mountainous region
posteen
pulse generator
pulse width coded
rectifying tubes
red copper ore (cuprite)
regular system of parameters
roll control
sequence injection
silk teill brocade
sing small
single plane mean outside diameter deviation
sound coupling
story-teller
subscriber's number display circuit
tariff supplement
unguiculate (animal)
untarnishable
urgemeter
vepricardium asiaticum
visual data entry
waffle slab
warreners
without turning a hair
Xerult