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
a convenient memory
adiel
antidisciplinary
araroba
arch-rivalry
arse bandits
as fresh as a lark
Astarac
balb/cj mouse
banana stick
barans
blog search engine
born-free
Breugel
Burayj
button barrel lamp
cast-weld assembly
cicadellids
content directory
continuous phase in emulsion
crinicultural
desperate remedy
disriegled
doublet oscillator
down to the last detail
electric-arc furnace
elliptic pin
emulsa
Eugentiogenin
failure to plead
fibrino-
force current analogy
gelseminine
go woolgathering
grounders
gryffe
Happy Holidays
heat-run
helobial endosperm
Hypsoblennius
IAIS
interleukin-2
Jian ware
Karabra, Sungai
Kindia
kriesel
Kudamatsu
language-is
latex molding
LEAS (lower echelon automatic switchboard)
ligamentum puboprostatium
lintel soffit
lodish
Los Herreras
lower middle - class
Madeira cakes
maracaiboes
mass removal curve
menadiol sodium diphosphate
metastatic tumor of ovary
migrans neuritis
misawarding
moving-bed catalytic reforming
myco-heterotroph
nematoblasts
Nera, Fiume
nicolayite
non-combustible cargo
non-perspective projection
obouen
one-by-one purl fabric
Oospora catenata
order Berycomorphi
particle velocity
peripatetical
permeative
peste des petits ruminants
photocell telemetering commutator
photogeologist
protective fender for lock gate
Reservecellulose
return feeder
sake bomb
sarkine
sea satellite
seat bottom channel
semihydrate
Singbridge
smilaceous
stable angina cordis
steel turnbuckle
stored-response testing
tape sampler
ten-ven
tensile resistance degree
thermophility
transmission of energy by radio
tripoli (tripolis)
tsunami wave
Vaccinium pratense
vulvae rimae