时间:2019-01-27 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


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Dylan’s car was 20 years old, but the faded paint made it look even older. His friend Joe told him no girl would ever go out in a car that looked like that. So Dylan took the car to a paint shop and got it painted dark blue for only $200. He was very pleased with the new look. The car stereo did not work. Joe told him that no girl wanted to be in a car without a good sound system. So Dylan bought a nice stereo and installed it himself.


Months went by. One day, Dylan told Joe that no girl had ridden in his “new” car yet. “That’s because there are other problems,” Joe told him. “Like what?” “Well, you don’t exactly have the world’s best personality,” Joe said. “That’s a little more important than a paint job.” So Dylan told Joe he would ask a psychologist to give him a new personality.


Recently, Dylan had a new problem—gasoline. He smelled gas after he started his car; he smelled it while driving the car. Was he driving a bomb? What if someone tossed out a cigarette near his car? Would it explode into a thousand pieces—pieces that included Dylan?


That night, he opened his car manual. It was a well-thumbed book. He had a car problem at least once a month, and he was always looking up ways to fix the problems. He thought this might be a carburetor problem.


The next day, he took his toolbox out to his car. He opened the hood 1. He started up the car and looked all around the carburetor for a gas leak. He could smell the gas, but he couldn’t find a liquid trail. After a few minutes, however, he found the source of the problem. It was the fuel line.


“All right!” he thought. “All I have to do is buy a new line and install it.” But it wasn’t long before he realized that this was a job for a mechanic. So he got into his car, opened all the windows, and drove to the closest mechanic. The mechanic quoted Dylan a price of only $50. He told Dylan to come back in an hour.


Dylan walked down the street to the coffee shop and bought himself a cup of coffee. He read the paper, drank the coffee, and then walked back to the shop.


“We couldn’t fix it,” said the mechanic. “The fuel line wasn’t the problem; you need a new fuel pump.”


“A new fuel pump? How much is that?” Dylan asked.


“Parts and labor 2? I think it’ll be about $200. We’ll have to special-order the pump. This car is so old that they might not even make pumps for it any more. Do you want me to try to order it for you? You’ll have to put the money up first, of course.”


“Let me think about it. Here’s the $50 I owe you. I’ll give you a call when I decide what to do.”


But Dylan had already decided 3 what to do. He had bought his car for only $1,100, but had put over $3,000 into it since then. When he got home, he called the Car Donation Corporation. They would take the car off his hands for free. Enough was enough. It was time to let go.


 



n.头巾,兜帽,覆盖;v.罩上,以头巾覆盖
  • She is wearing a red cloak with a hood.她穿着一件红色带兜帽的披风。
  • The car hood was dented in.汽车的发动机罩已凹了进去。
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
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。
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.so
aged deterioration
alice b. toklass
anonymous FTP(file transfer protocol) server
artificial hole set
Baker,Newton Diehl
base hospital
battery elevator
be under the gun
beament
blindman's holiday
brisancemeter
callender
carcinoplax suruguensis
cedar nuts
Chakravakam
commercial burner oil
composite debonding
confinements
coordination numbers
counterfacture
Cryptococcus psychrophylicus
delayed radiation activity
designing wind speed
detention on remand
dispair
economic austerity
electronic respirator
experimental medicine
Ferro-picotite
foremost portion
high power sweep generator
imparadising
impermeable
instantaneous deviation control circuit
interrupt driven i/o
Iridill
just-in-time (jit)
keos
kitchen roll
langas
languescent
laryngotrachebronchoscope
laser phototypesetting system
leptosidin
leveling method
Liparis campylostalix
longitudinal septum
mackerelsnapper
marble's reagent
maximum stream flow
menometrorrhagia
mesenteric plexus
meter opening reading
milk-bottle bobbin
mission control center
molecular excitation
Morone interrupta
mosaic funli
municipals
Myriophyllum exalbescens
netcode
NOCTI
nonlinear dynamic system
obstruction signal button
one hundred thirty-five
ostraceous
paiutes
panhysterocolpectomy
petalonia fascia
Pternohyla fodiens
Pteropus capestratus
radicular arteries
rape-cake
refilling of ballast
rothr
second throat
secondary somatic hermaphrodite
segment erection machinery
sentry boxes
series compensated amplifier
shear-type drill boom
shipboard supervision
size selector
sociogroup
struthers
surface acoustic wave oscillator
surgical physiology
suspension type log haul-up
target designation mode
telemail-telephone set
tertiary channel
the prince
these things are sent to try us
tikus
total payments
uncrinkled
unmouthpieced
weekliest
weight molar concentration
wyndland
yessed