时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   Dylan suddenly wakened 1. He muttered 2, "What happened?" His 90-year-old wife said nothing. Her side of the bed was empty. He asked, "Where are you?" No answer. He walked around to her side of the bed. She was lying on the carpet. He grabbed 3 her by her thin arms and put her back into bed. A while later, he was wakened again. He said, "I'm going to leave you there this time." She said nothing. After a few minutes, he got up. He lifted her back into bed. He put a pillow 4 on the floor. That should help, he thought. An hour later, he was reawakened. Her side of the bed was empty again. He called 911. Paramedics arrived. One pronounced her dead. After interviewing Dylan, he asked, "Why didn't you call us immediately?" Dylan said, "What for? She's fallen out of bed lots of times. It never killed her before."



1 wakened
v.醒来,睡醒( waken的过去式和过去分词 );唤醒,弄醒;(使)觉醒, (使)振奋,激发
  • The child had just wakened. 这孩子刚醒。
  • Nature seems to be wakened from a dead sleep. 大自然似乎从沉睡中被唤醒了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2 muttered
轻声低语,咕哝地抱怨( mutter的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He muttered a curse at the other driver. 他低声咒骂另一位开车的人。
  • She turned away and muttered something unintelligible. 她转向一旁,嘴里不知咕哝些什么。
3 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。
4 pillow
n.枕头;枕垫;vt.作…的枕头;垫;枕于;vi.靠在枕上
  • He fell asleep as soon as he touched the pillow.他脑袋一碰枕头就睡着了。
  • She was found asleep on a pillow of leaves.有人看见她枕着树叶睡着了。
学英语单词
abnormal magnetic moment
air - conditioning system
Alligatorinae
allocatur
alternative diplomacy
antitetanolysin
approvings
asls
Benbane Head
bent socket wrench
bicostate
blind speed
browsewrap
burse mode
c-spring
cadmium oxyiodide
cakobau
chemical measurements of water
compasture
corotation electric field
cotton-wool spots
cross section of road
cynopterus sphinxes
De Niro
defect detecting
detail fracture of rail head
dial indicater
dlemblee syphilis
do ill
dry construction partition
Duanxi ink stone
dummy filter
error curve
extend across/over
firm structure
flat-picked
forfeitment
glossingly
handwrit
hawse-piece
health office
high-loss polyiron material
histoid leproma
Hluhluwe Game Reserve
impulse sampling
inchrome process
integrated operation intelligence system
jaggary
LEO (low enrichment ordinary water reactor)
liquid phase thermal cracking
Luschka's cartilage
maximum low-threshold input- voltage
megasites
Mendigorria
Meshcherino
network length
nitropolyurethane
non-excitation operation
nonseasonal hay fever
on-line transfer
Paphian
paragenetic relation
phosphorus dibromotrichloride
pierce sth through
printing fee
process detailing
pulse relaxation amplifier
purveyer
records grouped
reincarnationism
reiterant
rhizomatists
rooklet
salvesens
seal with one's blood
SEOCH Participant
sexual abnormality
specified speed
steenings
stench bomb
stick a fork in him
stop-the-wars
straight flow production line
suction planter
Sunnite
superheating
supervisor queue area
swordsmanships
taiyuan seris
The pot goes so long to the water that it is broken at last.
transmission rod
tripping by charged condenser
unmasks
untouchability
variola abortiva
ventral fin sinus
ventress
Werlhof's disease
whydunit,whydunnit
yamhill
Yariguaya
Yerkes-Watson discrimination box