时间:2018-12-05 作者:英语课 分类:创世记


英语课


The Ant and the Dove
 


   An ant  went to the bank of a river to quench 1 its thirst, and being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of drowning. 
  A Dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water plucked a leaf and let it fall into the stream close to her.


  The Ant climbed onto it and floated in safety to the bank. Shortly afterwards a bird catcher came and stood under the tree, and laid his lime-twigs 2 for the Dove, which sat in the branches. The Ant, perceiving his design, stung him in the foot. In pain the bird catcher threw down the twigs, and the noise made the Dove take wing.


 One good turn deserves another
 



1 quench
vt.熄灭,扑灭;压制
  • The firemen were unable to quench the fire.消防人员无法扑灭这场大火。
  • Having a bottle of soft drink is not enough to quench my thirst.喝一瓶汽水不够解渴。
2 twigs
细枝,嫩枝( twig的名词复数 )
  • Some birds build nests of twigs. 一些鸟用树枝筑巢。
  • Willow twigs are pliable. 柳条很软。
学英语单词
Abraham's Balm
abstinence rings
achrestic
amplitude selectivity
annular grid
annulus fibrosus
antoantibody
architecture of design
arsenals
Australian broad leared tea tree
autopayment
balanced reinforcement
beam camber
belt footing
blueshifted
bog marl
bottom shed
c.i.(correlation index)
Caryl
chromoscan
Compressor.
Dafoe
Dawsonning
deterioration failure
divisionalized
draw in rod
Dutch barns
Electrophorinae
empirical-analytical
epixenolith
Foshay'serum
Frank-Starling mechanism
fuel oil desulfurization
gabe
giaever
griffith wing
hose dye border
Illasi
information processing machine
intercepting valve
international pricing
island mountain
job loss
kinier
lack of fusion
Lamina cartilaginis cricoideae
ligamenta annulare radii
liklie
make the best of a bad business
Marssum
median strip
Methoxyacetate
mineral soil
minicelebrity
Monkleigh
monosomaty
Nitrobacteriaceae
Nitzschia
no voltage protection
nonindustrial establishment
notifiable
on the (big, small, etc) side
ovule
palladised charcoal
parastomal
paste into
pernods
physiological mechanics
pignus
Poikilovirus
post tension
posterior pituitary principle
primary iteration
primary recrystallization
prognathy
Protoset
Quinag
re-assuring
record identifier
rendzina like brown soil
resuit
RHYTHMOS
rock-firm
sampling of continous-time signal
sardinella albella
scarcity economics
soapine
sound frequency range
Sovereignty of Territorial Sea
steering shaft thrust bearing
stem cankers
Tatanovo
telescopic sight
tube galvanometer
Tulette
Vaginularia
Veytaux
vicious circles
video cam
warbucks
Wognum
zone plate