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
alternation to plan
aschmanns
assassinacy
baptisia
blown oxidized asphalt
booklengths
branch and bound algorithm
brinell numbers
ceruminiferous
CHFR (critical heat flux ratio)
Chinese-character printer
chinghaiensis
chronic alcoholic
circular vibration generator
clearance angle
colostral
comma degeneration
common servicing
crawl effect
Delavaya
designer surface
di-potassium tartrate
drop wire
eightsome reel
electrometer measurement
etrohysterectomy
fat-splitting agent
fault-free system performance analysis
federal air surgeon (fas)
frequency analyzer
functional nuclei
gangler
gigha
half-decent
halfsweeps
heat pipe of capillarity
Hoke County
hopia
induction coefficient
internationally-renowned
jam the brakes on
jody
kaczenski
kentia palm
Kenyanism
Kurkinskiy Rayon
leading knitting system
leaf extract
living embodiment
lysyaminoadenosine
mandelsons
manufacturing expense in process account
marceline ( (1)rhodonite (2)braunite)
Mira variable
mixed-motives model
mold
monkie
multiple film
namesmanship
navet
negative ocular
new politics
news interpretation
normative decisiontheory
orders-of-magnitude
ovuligerous
people who know the ropes
polarimete
postflight medical analysis
pretendedly
primadonnas
program control device
quenum
quick traverse winder
reluctating
reversed level
routineer
Sankt Michaelisdonn
semantic processor
sewalls
specific response
square foot
stegates nigricans
Straach
stray induction
svetozars
taper pipe tap
Tardes, R.
titering
took the floor
trade discipline
triggermen
tritium activity
try another tack
tubularization
typhoon squall
ultrarightist
uranium beryllide
Vacuolariaceae
voneche
wish-bone
yamaichi