时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:VOA2003(上)-美国故事


英语课

   重点词汇


  pitch: vt. 投;掷;定位于;
  schedule: vt. 安排,计划;编制目录;将……列入计划表
  There are two twin brothers named Ricky and Bobby who enjoyed playing baseball. Rickey was always the pitcher 1 and Bobby was always the second baseman.
  One day, they were sitting on the couch 2 when Ricky wondered aloud," Do you think they play baseball in heaven?"
  "I don't know" replied Bobby.
  "Is there a way to find out," asked Ricky.
  "I have an idea," replied Bobby. " How about if one of us ever dies, he has to come back and tell the other if there is baseball in heaven."
  "Ok, it's a deal."Ricky agreed.
  A few days later, Ricky was cycling down the road when he was hit by a car. he died on the way to hospital. Bobby went to the funeral and cried for days.
  A week later, he was visited by the ghost of his dead brother.
  "Have you come to tell me id they play baseball in heaven?" Bobby asked.
  "Well, I have good news and bad news," said Ricky. " The good news is that they do play baseball in heaven. The bad news is that you are scheduled to pitch tomorrow."
  有两个双胞胎兄弟叫Ricky和Bobby,他们喜欢打棒球。Ricky总是投手Bobby, 一直是二垒手。
  有一天,他们正坐在沙发上,瑞奇大声地问:“你认为他们在天堂打棒球吗?”
  “我不知道,”Bobby回答说。
  “有办法知道吗?”瑞奇问道。
  “我有个主意,”Bobby回答说。如果我们中有一个人死了,他必须回来告诉另一个人,如果天堂里没有棒球。
  “好的,一言为定。”瑞奇同意了。
  几天后,瑞奇在路上骑车,突然被一辆车撞了。他在去医院的路上就死了。Bobby去参加葬礼,哭了好几天。
  一周后,他死去的哥哥的鬼魂造访了他。
  “你是来告诉我他们在天堂打棒球的吗?”Bobby问。
  “嗯,我有好消息和坏消息,”瑞奇说。好消息是他们确实在天堂打棒球。坏消息是你被安排在明天投球。”

1 pitcher
n.(有嘴和柄的)大水罐;(棒球)投手
  • He poured the milk out of the pitcher.他从大罐中倒出牛奶。
  • Any pitcher is liable to crack during a tight game.任何投手在紧张的比赛中都可能会失常。
2 couch
n.睡椅,长沙发椅;vt.表达,隐含
  • Lie down on the couch if you're feeling ill.如果你感觉不舒服就躺到沙发上去。
  • The rabbIt'sprang from its grassy couch.兔子从草丛中跳出。
标签: 早餐英语
学英语单词
A. C. T.
Actinidiaceae
air-con
aksums
appreciable growth
automatic defrosting
B. & G.
below-average
bowllike
bronfenbrenner
centrifugal microscope
ceratiomyxa fruticulosa fruticulosa
charge injection device
clacketed
claim for set-off
class boundaries
co-occurs
cognitive linguistics
common crime
computable general equilibrium model
control rod ejection
cowslips
curre
cyclic section
Dao Heng Finance Limited
darga
Dewey, Melvil
dietetic jelly
dohyo-iri
dotrels
draghici
dremel
drouthy
elevation potentiometer
emergency shutdown mechanism
erede
exercise dictatorship over
flutter generator
forest-yaws
furance throat stopper
gear range
gun crew
heave shoulder
horizontal market software
iconographic fixation
industrial manufacture
influence by the tower shadow
intake chute
interactionism
international ohm
irreligiosities
Janggigot
jean-bertrand
line type
Lonicera dasystyla
milzbrand
multi-microprocessor computer system
n-word vector
new pteris fern
nonretrograde
notch factor
on stream maintenance
page limit clause
paragrams
Paranignya
partialize
plane-parallel layer
planing and shaping machine
plush copper ore
population formation
poster child
postmotum
program linkage
programmed cryptographic facility
protandrous
reflection migrating
refractarily
roghtless
saliera
school and college ability test (scat)
selective pairing
sesquidiploid
sfer
sirs
slick process
standard network architecture
stereoscintigraphy
stick notes
straight-linest
subassumptions
syndicat
syrmaticus mikato
system of prize
Tanahputih
taste-blind
temelucha biguttula
timber puller
tobis
trichaptum biforme
variable length logical operand
Wolfe Wave
young period