时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   Craig's uncle had just retired 1 from a government job. He was planning to take a lot of ocean cruises. Craig said, "What a dream job that was. Just shuffle 2 paper for 30 years and then take ocean cruises. You can't beat that." Marie said, "Of course you can. Your uncle was born here. He speaks fluent English. He grew up knowing American culture. He had many advantages that immigrants to America don't have. Yet he shuffled 3 paper for 30 years. My boss came here from Vietnam with no money and no English. He had nothing but his recipe for hot sauce. Last year his company sold $60 million worth of his hot sauce. If your uncle had aimed for the stars, today he might own his own cruise company. But he didn't. He took the easy road. I think my boss is more of an American than your uncle is."



adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
  • The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
n.拖著脚走,洗纸牌;v.拖曳,慢吞吞地走
  • I wish you'd remember to shuffle before you deal.我希望在你发牌前记得洗牌。
  • Don't shuffle your feet along.别拖着脚步走。
v.洗(纸牌)( shuffle的过去式和过去分词 );拖着脚步走;粗心地做;摆脱尘世的烦恼
  • He shuffled across the room to the window. 他拖着脚走到房间那头的窗户跟前。
  • Simon shuffled awkwardly towards them. 西蒙笨拙地拖着脚朝他们走去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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a full figure
adaptive radar-controlled autopilot
air valve chamber
alkali test
anterior arch area
anti-idiotypic
approximating programming method
Arabeva
autoflowing
Bielitz
biopolitically
bish bosh
blackhull disease
Buechel
casting copper
chaix
chamfered pole shoe
Ciudad Lerdo
cleanouts
control plan
Corchorus pyriformis
Crucis
depicturing
diesel tamping machine
dimastigate
distend-cosmic
distributor ignition
dornicks
Droylsden
electron migration
electrooptic glass
energy rational use
enormly
entice with
fall into line
fibrous barite(heavy spar)
fill'er up
flat topped curve
gas refrigeration
gloit
indirect action
internal lubrication
intravascular coagulation fibrinolysis
joints of hand
jubran
klaasens
Kri
layer number of transverse bar
Luangnamtha
magnetic card system
man with the ax
matchbush
mathematical knowledge
mesotro
microspora stagnorum
midmountain
moderable
multifacetedness
Muslimas
mutton dressed up like lamb
Neyman distribution
no-party
oil hydraulic die cushion
open doors
optical cable assembly
optical fiber subscriber networks
optimizable loop
Oxford weed
packing department
pepastic
plant roots
projective conic
pronaus
pulp board
put someone to a lot of expense
radio compass error
ratchet wheel key
reentrant syncline
resinification
san jose state university
Satter's sign
separation of placenta
shelvings
silicon chip array splicing
Sinjang-ni
skew ring
source parameter
stiffening orders
storage starch
sub-districts
takeoff jams
threshold of perception current
tipping barrow
top minnow
turn a cold shoulder to
uncocooned
underglaze
water head test
way-bent
without light and shade
yatom