时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:赖世雄中级美国英语


英语课

  Many people seek fame and wealth. Gul Muhammed sought neither. However, through fate he is famous. Heis so sort that he is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest man in the world. He measuresonly 57 centimeters. Though he has fame, he is not rich. In fact, he's too poor to pay his own medical bills.

Recently, when Gul became so ill that he had to be brought to the hospital, he didn't have enough moneyfor the medicine. What a pitiful man he is! His story tells us that fame and wealth do not always go hand inhand. Indeed, Gul is a living example of the saying, "All that glitters is not gold."


 

 


 


All that glitters is not gold. 部分否定

be as poor as a church mouse

widow 寡妇

seek = look for = be in search of

notorious = infamous 1 恶名昭张      be notorious for naughty

Don't bow(surrender) to fate. 不向命运低头      bowtie 蝴蝶结

stout 2 -- thick,black,bitter beer 黑啤酒    potbelly大肚皮

be poor at sth 很差    be good at

medical bill 医药费

foot the bill = pay the bill  付账 

When his father fell ill, Tom rushed home from work.

miserable 3 惨的   pitiful 可怜的      It's a pity/a shame/pitiful/too bad he can't come.  

living 活生生的    living dictionary





 



1 infamous
adj.声名狼藉的,臭名昭著的,邪恶的
  • He was infamous for his anti-feminist attitudes.他因反对女性主义而声名狼藉。
  • I was shocked by her infamous behaviour.她的无耻行径令我震惊。
2 stout
adj.强壮的,粗大的,结实的,勇猛的,矮胖的
  • He cut a stout stick to help him walk.他砍了一根结实的枝条用来拄着走路。
  • The stout old man waddled across the road.那肥胖的老人一跩一跩地穿过马路。
3 miserable
adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的
  • It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他,这是可耻的。
  • Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。
学英语单词
'dromes
absolute rule
adenoma papilliforum
amount of water an animal's body
an endangered species
angle shears
arbus-
arcsine distribution
arpine
average over all efficiency
be bugged
benzalcoumarone
best person
boosies
Brownson, Orestes Augustus
Bulpyeong
cam catch
cambered blade
chtomophotherapy
CPTM
cresol sulfonic acid
cyc
cyclodes omma
dietetic treatment
disenjoys
drone cone
drove work
Ellicean
emission spectra
extremal control
film motion analyzer
fracture density
funnel flow
gemmen
Gourcy
grey shirting
hair slides
heterocyclics
historical monument
IAMP
idole
industrial track
integrality
jacket cape
junk-grade
knock someone cold
langured
large econometric model
linamarase
lithic wacke
make a time over
medium scale maps
Memory Stick Duo
MQ (multiplier-quotient register)
multiplexed bus system
net income approach
normalized eigenvector
ore pellet carrier
para-tert-butylcatechol
paraunt
passenger traffic condition
pattern grading and cutting machine
pinkalicious
placing nozzle
play the giddy goat
polyoxamic
presto chango
primary syphilis
promote cooperation
propeller advance
Propionibacterineae
proplets
quarter-saw
refuse conveying
relay check in check out register
remove risers
resistance controller
return to form
rock erosion
shielded inert-gas metal arc welding
simfibrate
single cascade action
stereometric map
Swiss Army knives
sybra botelensis
tag oneself on to
Taranchi
tax concession
the world of dreams
thorough-winded
tiggemann
transit letter
Triangulum Australe
under budget
understoker
uricotelism
vaporings
Venus probe
visceral inspection
voders
waste disposal site
zekey