时间:2019-02-05 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


英语课

When Winnie and Arnold bought their house at the end of a cul-de-sac in 1980, they thought they had died and gone to heaven. There were only four houses on the street. Between their house and their neighbor’s house was a dirt pathway. The path led to a city-owned dog park, where dog owners could let their dogs run free. But there was no parking 1 lot for dog owners’ cars. Dog owners had to park on the street, and then walk their dogs to the leash-free park.


In 1980 no one seemed to know about the park. The only people who used it were the people who lived in the neighborhood. The neighbors used to joke that they had their own private dog park.


Those were the good old days. Things have changed. The park has become like California 2 in the Gold Rush days. Everyone knows about it. A dog may be man’s best friend, but 1,000 dogs certainly are not.


Over the years, the neighborhood association 3, consisting of about 70 houses nearest to the park, has begged the city council 4 to reduce park hours. It is open from 7:00 to 7:00 seven days a week. But some dog owners actually arrive at 6:00, saying that they needed to beat the rush. To save walking distance, others park in neighborhood driveways. Others bring boom 5 boxes and play music loudly in the park. Others knock on neighborhood doors and ask to use the bathroom. Weekends are even worse than weekdays. Whole families spend the day with their dogs. People, dogs, noise, and trash are everywhere.


“We’re stuck here,” said Arnold. “I’ve been trying to sell my place for five years. But when buyers see all this dog traffic, they take off running. What a joke. This place was heaven when we first moved here. Now it’s hell 6.”


The city council has ignored the neighborhood association’s pleas 7 for help. A council member said, “We have to meet the public demand. This no-leash park is very popular. I’m sorry, but if the homeowners don’t like it, they can always move. This is a free country, you know.”


 



n.停车,停机,停放
  • A bus is parking on the road.路上停着一辆公共汽车。
  • Next you must learn how to back a car into a parking space.下一步你应该学会如何把车倒入停车的空地。
n.加利福尼亚(美国)
  • He was elected governor of the state of California.他当选为加州州长。
  • We were driving on a California freeway.我们正沿着加利福尼亚的一条快车道驾车行驶。
n.联盟,协会,社团;交往,联合;联想
  • Our long association with your company has brought great benefits.我方和贵公司的长期合作带来了巨大的利益。
  • I broke away from the association ten years ago.我10年前就脱离了那个团体。
n.理事会,委员会,议事机构
  • The town council passed a law forbidding the distribution of handbills.市议会通过法律,禁止散发传单。
  • The city council has declared for improving the public bus system.市议会宣布同意改进公共汽车系统。
n.隆隆声;vt.发隆隆声
  • The country is having a great boom in industry.这个国家的工业正蓬勃发展。
  • Boom!Boom!Boom!A series of explosions shook the valley.轰!轰!轰!一连串爆破声震撼山谷。
n.地狱,阴间;用以咒骂或表示愤怒,不满
  • It's a hell of a hike from Sydney to Perth.从悉尼到珀斯的徒步旅行简直苦死了。
  • The boss really gave me hell today.老板今天着实数落了我一通。
借口( plea的名词复数 ); (被告或被告律师的)抗辩; (法庭中的)理由; 请愿
  • He sent her away without even listening to her pleas. 他甚至不肯听她的哀诉就把她遣走了。 来自汉英文学 - 家(1-26) - 家(1-26)
  • Shousheng came out and added his pleas to Mr. Lin's. 寿生也来了,帮着林先生说。 来自汉英文学 - 林家铺子
学英语单词
0917
able to
acinar
aeridess
area-specific
balsam
bathroom break
bisiliac
bonnet gasket
Braslav
camber line
cash sale
casting lotss
castlette
celadon
CGIAR)
chain lashing device
chinese family
chromate
coarsegrain
cordycepin
cuder
cumulative ash-float curve
cybernauts
damping pad holder
deblurs
degenerate variable
diesel engine simulator
dunnet shale
efficientibility
electric roaster oven
electrooptic coefficient
energy thermal gradients
entrechat huit
explosivities
fancy shirting
float-glass process
follow one's heart
green roll
gyroscale
height of coupler center from top of rail
helmholtz free energy exchange
hentriacontanes
identical
independent single operating unit
indistinguishability of identical particles
irradiated fuel assembly storage facility
isoshyobunone
iumls
jagmohan
jaw-breaker
keep one's ears open
Kronborgia
lobbyisms
Loran-C receiver
low income countries and territories
lump-sums
lustless
lykken
needle grass
Non-Accredited Investor
non-crystal body
non-metallic inclusion
NSSCC
OETX
oqpsk (offest qpsk)
ore loss ratio
over-door
partiality to someone
peach bells
peloer
Penicillium spinulosum
pile-up pulse
pinion and rack steering
Portland, C.
prenominations
propargyl alcohol
protobranch
pyx
Radermachera
railway haulage capacity
Rhododendron sinensis Sweet.
rubber plinth
rulership
SJS
small commodities
snow fox
spurtingly
steel hose
stylosus
surface-
thermo-fixing
thoriated filament
transit agent
transnasal approach
Umbelliferae
unbandage
uniformity of law
valve straightway
vitamin b folic acid
word switch register
wou'dst