时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:英语博客 A cup of English


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  I have great neighbors. They are friendly, I trust them, and they are helpful. What more could I ask for in a neighborhood? As a friendly neighbor myself, I do what I can to keep my relationship with the people next door to me a positive one. The neighbor to my left recently got married to a lady who loves animals, infact, she used to have a farm. When she moved in she had goats, a pony 1, chickens, and she bred dogs. Gradually, to please her husband, she has sold some of the animals. That is actually a good thing because the smell of goat manure 2 was becoming a bit overpowering. The neighbor to my right is a busy father of two, who goes to work early in the morning, and only has a cat. He is lively and amusing. He is also honest. He has always made it clear that he hates dogs. He thinks that they are noisy, messy, and silly. Cats, he thinks, are intelligent and sophisticated, and of course, much easier to take care of. Well, I happen to have two dogs, both of whom are still puppies. These dogs live in our back yard which is fenced in. They have a warm, insulated dog house, and plenty of space to run around and play in. But, they are dogs, and they bark. Not very much, mind you. But if they sense a deer is nearby, or if they smell a racoon, they will certainly bark. I think that they can also sense when people don't like them, because when Don, our neighbor who hates dogs, goes to work at six o'clock in the morning, they run up to the fence where they can see his car, and they start barking. They bark as if they have spotted 3 an enemy. So, in order to stay friends with Don, I bought some 'shock collars' for the dogs that 'encourage' them to stay quiet. When they bark, they get a little vibration 4 on the neck that they don't like. And you know, it works, but not enough to give Don a quiet morning. Now, when he gets into his car, the dogs still run up and bark once, "woof!" But then they howl slightly because of the collars, "argh!" After a couple of seconds they do the same thing. After about three times, they give up, and by then, Don has gone. I have to wake up at six, so it's actually an alarm clock for me, an amusing one. But poor Don must think I'm a terrible neighbor.

Grammar notes.

Related vocabulary: to breed, overpowering, racoon, to sense.

1. The farmer near us breeds work horses.

2. I think you put too much garlic in that sauce; it's overpowering. I can't taste the fish at all.

3. There is a family of racoons in the neighborhood. Sometimes you can see their black and white bodies running into a bush to hide.

4. I could sense that he was angry. I knew that he would start shouting.



adj.小型的;n.小马
  • His father gave him a pony as a Christmas present.他父亲给了他一匹小马驹作为圣诞礼物。
  • They made him pony up the money he owed.他们逼他还债。
n.粪,肥,肥粒;vt.施肥
  • The farmers were distributing manure over the field.农民们正在田间施肥。
  • The farmers used manure to keep up the fertility of their land.农夫们用粪保持其土质的肥沃。
adj.有斑点的,斑纹的,弄污了的
  • The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
  • Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
n.颤动,振动;摆动
  • There is so much vibration on a ship that one cannot write.船上的震动大得使人无法书写。
  • The vibration of the window woke me up.窗子的震动把我惊醒了。
学英语单词
4-Nonylphenol
A fool's bolt is soon shot .
a. palatina ascendens
abstract nouns
afraidness
allele-shift
anthracene oil
assesses
asset-income ratio
bakoye (bakoy)
bildt
Canar
canthaxanthins
Central European
Cheyne Stokes breathing
CMR (common mode rejection ratio)
co-heartedness
collateral energy
commutating watthour meter
complex cone
cooperation in production
counter-balanced lift truck
creep component
Cuscuta
denazified
dining-room attendants
discrete exponential family
do up brown
drupiferous
earth shine
electricity and gas supply - isic
embedded resistor
equimorphism
Esch's medium
Euptela
expansion-valve
eyeballs-to-eyeballs
foamed impregenation
freehandle
fried eggs with shrimps
fuse cut-outs
genus guloes
glucosidases
Grace Patricia Kelly
graded-density skin
Guarantee Unit Under TIR
half intensity width
hammer riveting machine
Han Kook
hydrogen transportase
hyperemia of bulbar conjunctiva
Ikla
in chains
inverse Raman effect
isogenomatic
Larina
licence-fee
lindera thomsonii allen
litterless
lock seaming
lot goods
low boiler pressure trip
Lutjanus blackfordi
Macht's tests
material mark
mayor and council system
mesocoria
Methyl-3-phenylcoumarin
military dances
nascent aluminium
national public telecomputing network
network id
olive infused oil
Omega segment synchronization
one pair brush multiphase series motor
paraphytoseius chihpenensis
passage of current
peri-naphthindene
phonon emission
phosphate capacity
pleurites
psychobiological entity
quasi-free ion
replenishment developer
Saidian
semi-Whitneyite
singphos
Sippy powder No. 1
smiley face
space plant
spates
spherical harmonic
Squibb, Edward Robinson
throttle valve topside
tower footing resistance
trajo
upper bell
victualing
wffs
workin'
younger hand