时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:原版英文小故事


英语课

It was a perfect day in Los Angeles. Even Shakespeare might not have words for a day like this. You had to “be there” to appreciate it. The sun was shining, and soft white clouds were parked in the deep blue sky. The temperature was perfect for shorts. Not chilly 1, not hot. A breeze occasionally stirred the leaves.


Most days in LA are hot. December and January are usually rainy and, for some reason, June is usually cool and overcast 2. Although many locals find June weather to be refreshingly 3 cool, the local TV weather people complain daily. “When is the ‘June gloom’ going to end?” they ask.


Eventually, of course, the gray June sky changes to a blue sky with very high temperatures. For the next five months, the local TV weather people complain about how hot it is, and get excited when the temperature drops five degrees.


Winter in LA means rain. Rain excites the local TV weather people. They get to remind viewers to remember their umbrellas, watch out for traffic, and drive extra carefully! They get to say “storm warning!” More than half the time, no storm follows the storm warning.


When a big storm hits LA, the local TV weather people show close-ups of big puddles 4 in the streets, close-ups of windshield wipers wiping away raindrops, and close-ups of wet people waiting at bus stops. Sometimes they show close-ups of TV reporters standing 5 ankle-deep in raging streams.


For some reason, the local TV weather people never have much to say about a perfect day like today.


 



1 chilly
adj.凉快的,寒冷的
  • I feel chilly without a coat.我由于没有穿大衣而感到凉飕飕的。
  • I grew chilly when the fire went out.炉火熄灭后,寒气逼人。
2 overcast
adj.阴天的,阴暗的,愁闷的;v.遮盖,(使)变暗,包边缝;n.覆盖,阴天
  • The overcast and rainy weather found out his arthritis.阴雨天使他的关节炎发作了。
  • The sky is overcast with dark clouds.乌云满天。
3 refreshingly
adv.清爽地,有精神地
  • Hers is less workmanlike than the other books and refreshingly unideological. 她的书不像其它书那般精巧,并且不涉及意识形态也让人耳目一新。 来自互联网
  • Skin is left refreshingly clean with no pore-clogging residue. 皮肤留下清爽干净,没有孔隙堵塞残留。 来自互联网
4 puddles
n.水坑, (尤指道路上的)雨水坑( puddle的名词复数 )
  • The puddles had coalesced into a small stream. 地面上水洼子里的水汇流成了一条小溪。
  • The road was filled with puddles from the rain. 雨后路面到处是一坑坑的积水。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 standing
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
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Adams, Maude
al-fin bearing
anhydro synthesis
Anselmian
artificial radloactive nucleus
Astacus japonicus
athyrotic
autoresponse
binary pulse code modulation
Birmingham Corporation Reservoirs
black sand
boom socket
brade
building regulation
cam bit
capacitive constant
clock motor
copia element
corporis uteri cavum
cream pack
daminozides
dedents
dialectician
diluted-core reactor
disc crank
discrete logarithm normal distribution
divinal
export trader
fan cameras
fourch
gas-filled stabilizer
genus Tamarindus
gilmars
go off on one
government authorities
governor lever
have a millstone about one's neck
HBID
head in the sand
heavy-duty vehicle
hemicryptophyta scandentia
hemophobic
hold fast for deck composition
hyalinises
imam hamid
immediatenesses
infrared radiation detector
ion population
isotopic differentiation
kalansuwas
kinvara
Kleine-Levin syndrome
knit vest
koljevics
laser level meter
loading coil box
marin-
mopar
muff puffs
oprt
overintensities
oyster farms
p-Hydroxyacetophenone
parasitisation
peroxybenzoic acid
photographic film
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progressive training
Protoopalina
remote work station
Sai Ong Hue
scott connection
septum interatriale
shaolins
sister
southern tais
starting gun
subpacket
Sunbury shale
sunsun
supercooled liquid
superdiversity
tacheometric protractor
take-off drift measurement
Telford pavement
Thessalia
throw away share
transferences
turbulisation
tutrices
ultra-high power
v-groove weld
vannal fold
walking off with
wansley
wash-off
wet-type air cell
whaling station
White Father
yarn stand
Zhiyong
zlotnick