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 man of action
a-ps
adjustable stop hook
Bermo Res.
birnbaum-saunders distribution
bisesi
bottom water plugging
bradleyite
breeds
broussonetine
bundled steel wires
burn-up monitor
burning kiln
Caerleon
carminophil
cherry currant
CHYAR
ciliary muscles
claim secured by a lien
comparative crystal chemistry
copper glances
coryphaenoides
customer design
Decumaria
digresseth
dreaded lurgy
duerr
dulbeccoes
Equipertine
ermisches
etaminal
fibrohemorrhagic
fluorescent plate technique
foreign body sensation
Fructose-1-6-phosphate
genus lomatias
ghbs
goal-conditions
golden farewell
Gomphotheriidae
Hercules'-club
highly-geared
huene
inductors
laminated stator
lamprolonchaea metatarsata
Larsson
Lauenburg
leukoplakic
long term assets
longest common substring
look out for yourself
mach trim coupler
malar stripe
marsileaceous
masuring bin
Microsoft Foundation Classes
nagyvary
neutron detection efficiency
newsholmes
nijazi
Nizmennyy, Mys
nunciatures
ode
oil-well
pangeosyncline hypothesis
pass partition(plate)
payoff perturbation
performance process
Plexus vasculares
politz
Potentilla rupestris
printing sequence
read-in
reference sound intensity
regulated fees
resetment
ring-roads
rio florido
scientific technological advance
sea-oak
shoulder length
snail-shell
solar thermal technology
spandrel beam
st. crispins
static coincident code rate for Hanzi
stirket
streptotrichal
subscription ledger
surgical sutures
T-iron
thickening material
thraupid
to avert
tranquilizing agent,tranquilizing drug
Tsuga formosana
unsearchable
Watling-street
Wemba-Wemba
whole current classifier