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。
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alloway creek
approach control service
auxiliary profession
biological prototype
biorepositories
booster magneto
Bromodifluoropropane
bubbly clay
Bulgarevo
BVPS
Canada Act
cannonshot
chamotte stone
commandance
conflict reconcile
continuous surveillance
coriolis' force
Cyanastrum
direct absorption
elbow-deep
feather in your cap
flat folded seam
fred-stole
functional solution
Gaillardia pulchella
gel strength
genklenes
genus Loligo
gormah
Grand Manan I.
high-temperature property
hobeler
immoral invention
infinite impulse response (iir) system
infinitive clause
input-truncated condensation
interiorscape
intraparticle diffusion
isomerization of C-8 aromatics
Jersey stone
keyboard equivalent
landing distance (ld)
latched position
Letart Falls
lunulate
Mataura
matsuno scheme
minireviews
Molciclina
morphological doublets
murex
New Bussa
non-ionosphere biophysics
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nyctanthous
Ogres Rajons
oldrich
outmodes
overhauled
oxeyed
P. B. S.
parallel-to-serial converter
parasagittal
plasmodermal blepharoplast
poppysmic
Potentilla rupestris
pouched eggs
profit-maximization hypothesis
propane gas
prosotas gracilis gracilis
qtext
radar stereo-viewing
ramalina pumila
reactor scram system
reanswer signal
reference to storage
relative visual field
release property
retinitis haemorrhagica
rock'n
romurtide
sanquinivore
sensitive cells
shirozuella alishanensis
shirtlifters
signal and array processing
single rotor mixer
sloganless
soliloquies
stonepit
straightblade
take (a) delight in
TG-DTA
Tien Son
TIGT (turbine inlet gas temperature)
truck mounted
truss-tube
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variations of an admissible family of arcs
vascular surgery
vilanova
white tail