时间:2019-02-07 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


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A 36-year-old man stormed into the Ramona post office yelling at everyone to get out of his way. Carrying a shotgun, he climbed up onto the countertop and told everyone to lie on the floor. Then he pulled the trigger and fired a round into the ceiling. Plaster splattered onto the floor and the customers.


The man ordered all the customers and employees to sit up and look at him. He said, "Repeat after me: I hate the post office!" Everyone repeated the words. He fired another round, but this one he aimed at the front plate glass window. Shattered glass went everywhere.


Three minutes later, five police cars pulled up in front of the post office, lights flashing and sirens wailing 1. Using a bullhorn, a police officer told the man to walk out backwards 2 with his hands up. The man fired another blast out the shattered window. The police officer and his bullhorn were uninjured. However, one police car had three little pit marks in it.


The man yelled, "I'm not coming out until the post office pays me for pain and suffering. A postal 3 truck ran into my car two years ago. My back is killing 4 me. I can't work anymore. My wife left me. I can't take it anymore."


After a while, the man calmed down. He released all the people inside. At 7:00 p.m., the man walked out backwards with his hands up. The police handcuffed him, put him in the back seat of the car, and drove him to the police station.


A post office official said that they had tried to settle with the man out of court, but he refused anything less than a million dollars. "So the whole thing went to court," he said. "I guess he got tired of waiting for the trial to begin. He'll probably go to jail for a few years because of this stunt 5."


 



v.哭叫,哀号( wail的现在分词 );沱
  • A police car raced past with its siren wailing. 一辆警车鸣着警报器飞驰而过。
  • The little girl was wailing miserably. 那小女孩难过得号啕大哭。
adv.往回地,向原处,倒,相反,前后倒置地
  • He turned on the light and began to pace backwards and forwards.他打开电灯并开始走来走去。
  • All the girls fell over backwards to get the party ready.姑娘们迫不及待地为聚会做准备。
adj.邮政的,邮局的
  • A postal network now covers the whole country.邮路遍及全国。
  • Remember to use postal code.勿忘使用邮政编码。
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
n.惊人表演,绝技,特技;vt.阻碍...发育,妨碍...生长
  • Lack of the right food may stunt growth.缺乏适当的食物会阻碍发育。
  • Right up there is where the big stunt is taking place.那边将会有惊人的表演。
学英语单词
A category
a kind of reddish brown
Ab Fab
ACA,A.C.A.
accommodation note
acute polyneuritis
ante-garden
anticlockwisely
apparati
automatinogen
auxiliary-frame
billcollector
camphor laurel
cession
clarichord
clean eating
command response parameters
congestion of throat
cost variance of semi-finished goods
coyotillo
current argument stack
CWA.
cystosarcoma of breast
debugging request execution
deep radial nerve
delta blues
discolo(u)ration effect
drill head
drinkoffering
driving in
duckflat belt
electron donating
figure number
flat-fee
frataxin
friedcakes
full-made
Gbangbatok
get on together
gravity flow drier
ground-note
guayas
helium turbine
histoautoradiography
hydrothermal sediment
identation cup
isws
Khuangkhan
lava column
lethal gas
libros
macroscopic magnetization
mass concentration
measure of equitability
micro-form
mine block
minibites
morbus coxae
nickel compound
nightsoil collection
non-coherent radiation
nonproximal
organismically
orientational polarization
paracirrhites forsteri
PC card slot
periaeschna magdalena
pessimism
polapan
position message
positive inotropic drug
practicalized
process input/output
Protosteliales
quantitative reserves assessment
raceme-cyme
red-line method
replevying
richard morris hunts
rough zone
saliferous
SASL
schores
self-acting trailer coupling
Siagne
single effect evaporator
Sleaford
slideway
small-mindedness
snap-back forming
space and tone diversity
storage area utilization ratio
sweet cream
swinglike
the affluent society
the flower fairy
tiger weasel
transform
vesicularities
viperid
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