时间:2019-02-15 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   The unopened box contained a bar of soap. He dug under the end flap with his thumbnail. He couldn't pry 1 the flap open. He tried to dig under the other end flap. He couldn't pry that flap open either. This is a simple, cardboard box, he thought. Why is it sealed like Fort Knox? He grabbed a knife and sawed through the box. That's it, he thought. He was tired of wrestling with packages in order to open them. He went to his basement. After many months of effort, he developed his Instant Opener. He took it to trade shows. Manufacturers loved it. What was it? A quiet, tiny bomb. To activate 2 the bomb, all a customer had to do was pull on a piece of string on the outside of the package. The tiny bomb was just strong enough to open any package. It didn't even make a mess.



vi.窥(刺)探,打听;vt.撬动(开,起)
  • He's always ready to pry into other people's business.他总爱探听别人的事。
  • We use an iron bar to pry open the box.我们用铁棍撬开箱子。
vt.使活动起来,使开始起作用
  • We must activate the youth to study.我们要激励青年去学习。
  • These push buttons can activate the elevator.这些按钮能启动电梯。
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Admiralty Arch
aminimides
Amvrosiyivka(Donetsko-Amvrosiyevka)
apparent cohesion
avenanthramide
bilge suction
button tab
carpet pad
carsberg
Catita
clarkes creek
coarser partition
colloquialisation
complishment
condenser checker
d.j.f.
decussatio fontinalis
demme
dkyd.
docking strain
dominance through a coalition
ecoawareness
errand of mercy
feakes
file interrogation program
fill up the time
Follega
generous discount
grand daughter
grillage analogy
group character
hand acupuncture
Herschelian
industrial autoclave
international shipping industry
isugs
karawanken (karavanke )
Kaveri
Laminaria japonica Aresch.
leaf casting
likeness
lindner
Loffler boiler
luminous efficiency (of radiation)
luna moths
magazine loading camera
mainstreet
mask alignment microscope
membrane invagination
michilimackinac
Minuartia
misconverting
Morse five-unit printer
nameplays
neighbouring rights
nylon fiber
obligate psychrophile
ohias
oil rectifier
oiliness degree
panaritium
periodization, periodisation
perniciousnesses
phase comparison carrier differential system
phenacetylaniline
pifflers
plate capacitor
Poa raduliformis
polycross
pre-coateds
precious opal
preliminary traverse
pseudo-random test specification
pteria dendronephthya
puerperal psychogenia
racket court
radiophosphorus
ratte
re-modelled
Reiche Ebrach
rereplicating
retroactive application
roboan
sea lamprey
see the colour of someone's money
seedings
single-acting disk harrow
spherical-earth factor
spring knockout
Strimon
Studies on Halogenated Aliphatic Compounds
thick coal seam
two-tip torch
vestibular test
vouching in
waterside area
weak grade
web-member system
white communicating branch
wind-PV system
woe betide someone