时间:2018-12-06 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


英语课

Saturday morning meant one thing for Susan—doing the laundry. She hated doing the laundry. Unenthusiastically, she took the pillow cases off all the pillows. Then she removed the fitted sheet from the mattress 1. She took the towel off the towel bar in the bathroom.


She grabbed 2 a couple of dirty dish towels out of the kitchen, and looked all around her apartment for anything else that needed washing.


In the corner of her living room, a can of coins sat on top of the file cabinet. She fished out seven quarters. She opened the cabinet under her kitchen sink and grabbed a plastic bottle of liquid detergent 3.


Finally, she set her electronic timer for 35 minutes. The timer would remind her that the washing was done, and that it was time to go back downstairs and put the clothes into the dryer 4 for 40 minutes. Without the timer, Susan would completely forget to check her clothes.


Susan carried the laundry basket downstairs. How happy she would be when her laundry was done for this week. As she approached the laundry room, she heard a familiar sound. The sound was the washer washing and the dryer drying. One of her neighbors had got there before her. Muttering 5, Susan took her basket back upstairs.


 



1 mattress
n.床垫,床褥
  • The straw mattress needs to be aired.草垫子该晾一晾了。
  • The new mattress I bought sags in the middle.我买的新床垫中间陷了下去。
2 grabbed
v.抢先,抢占( grab的过去式和过去分词 );(尤指匆忙地)取;攫取;(尤指自私、贪婪地)捞取
  • He was grabbed by two men and frogmarched out of the hall. 他被两个男人紧抓双臂押出大厅。
  • She grabbed the child's hand and ran. 她抓住孩子的手就跑。
3 detergent
n.洗涤剂;adj.有洗净力的
  • He recommended a new detergent to me.他向我推荐一种新的洗涤剂。
  • This detergent can remove stubborn stains.这种去污剂能去除难洗的污渍。
4 dryer
n.干衣机,干燥剂
  • He bought a dryer yesterday.他昨天买了一台干燥机。
  • There is a washer and a dryer in the basement.地下室里有洗衣机和烘干机。
5 muttering
轻声低语,咕哝地抱怨( mutter的现在分词 )
  • He was muttering away to himself. 他不停地喃喃自语。
  • She was muttering to herself. 她不停地喃喃自语。
学英语单词
a neek
advertising and publicity costs
air hp
Aldhelm
alphie
atpatruus
balloting committee
base-exchange capacity
be discontinued
boiling down to
buccinal
bureau of Census and Statistics
by-rooms
C. G. S. electromagnetic unit
calibration function
chicken bits
ciliotoxicity
collector modulation circuit
commercial channels
confucius institutes
coordinating agency
dc-ac power converter
dendryphion cubense
detotalize
diamond scribing
diplomaed
dirty industry
drum set
emmes
engraved scale thermometre
epistatic variance
eqpt
facultative
fixed-focus total-radiation pyrometer
flag-carrier
foregather
genus thalarctoss
halloa
histopathology of skin
hoise
Horsforth
hydraulic standby reservoir
immersion red
incavern
inflow velocity
intermittent-firing duct engine
interpole gap
isocount
jellicoes
job class queue
Lambic
Lannate
lative case
looky
lymer
melioidosis
mill type lamp
missing plot
negative moment reinforcement
Nyctal
odontoblastic process
Ofaqim(Ofakim)
orlando bloom
overt operation
overwood
oxford-down
per-use
peters out
pile Pelion upon Ossa
poephagous
postdiluvial
power absorption unit
pressuretight
Progmal
pruning trees
pull one's weight about
quingestanol
redbelly
runagates
rusty scale
safety handling
sahag
scheme of arrangement
self-contemptuously
setverify
shore connection cable
slide bearing bit
space craft
statu
stock certificate book
take to somewhere
takes stock of
tapestry moths
test tube centrifuge
Tongduchon
train time
tussles
vinasse
vocational and technological college and university
wide anode
win
X-ray powder method