时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   He looked at his bank statement 1 for January. How much interest had his savings 2 account 3 earned? There was $1,036 in his savings account. The account had earned all of 11 cents interest in January. He told his wife. She laughed. "That's almost three cents a week," she said. "By December, you'll have enough interest to buy a small cup of coffee." He said that his money wasn't growing at all. "But your money's safe," she said. "You won't lose it. You won't get rich, either. Rich people make money by risking 4 money. You'll never get rich if you play it safe." He said she was right. "I'm tired of playing it safe. I'm going to buy gold. Gold prices doubled in the last four years. My $1,000 will become $2,000. We'll be rich!" She laughed. "'Rich'? $2,000 is hardly rich," she said. He said, "Compared to 11 cents, it is."



1 statement
n.陈述;声明;综述
  • The government will put out a new statement tomorrow.政府将于明天发布一项新声明。
  • Put down your statement in black and white.把你的话用白纸黑字写下来。
2 savings
n.存款,储蓄
  • I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假,那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
  • By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时,他的存款已全部用完。
3 account
n.叙述;帐目;帐户
  • She left out an important item in her account.她的账目漏掉了一个重要的项目。
  • He has made several withdrawals from his bank account.他从银行账户上提了几次款。
4 risking
vt.冒…的危险(risk的现在分词形式)
  • I thanked him for risking his neck for me. 我感谢他为我冒生命危险。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I've been done down once, and I'm not risking it again. 我已经上过一次当,我不想冒第二次危险了。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
abbeyfield
act upon
aerial combat
airplane mode
anesthesia unit
anticommunists
ballgames
big head disease of turkeys
biotraumatic
bismuch ocher
bluish-purple
Brabham, Sir John Arthur
break-away friction
care and control
cephalopelvic
come under review
conical bushing
Damnacanthus angustifolius
daughterling
deadlock avoidance
dispersivities
distocercospora pachyderma
eight-ouncer
elastic sleeve bearing
elastomechanical
encapsulated larva
encryptation
fastusidine
FDPALD
firija
flowchart microprogramming language
future learning centre
galactic latitude
Gallicize, gallicized
garden cart
gas-cap reservoir
germinomas
glycerination
guerrilla gardener
hardison
Hoensbroek
Horconcitos
hydrophobia skunk
intake condition
intraps
inviso
jettison valve
jianxins
Kamadeva
kweek
laminated urea-formaldehyde plastics
linkage record
man of blood
Market-Leninism
Maykhe
multiple saw
Neobridal
nonchristian
obovalis
ochery
Odocoileus Virginianus
Olax austrosinensis
Orrisdale
osteoma sarcomatosum
overall hot spot factor
padlocking
point rodding
postgraduate study
pre-shampoo
president clevelands
problemsome
prosurfactant
prothetics
provincialis
residual radioactive dust
resupinatus trichotis
ring runner
Roan Fell
roof inner shield
selffeeding
semilunar folds.
serum culture-medium
somnabulate
sports sandals
standardizing load sequences
sticky geranium
stone marker
strouding
subclimactic
sunitha
surfels
taken her eyes off
track intermediate repair
trait personalization
Turner teeth
ubg
unscriptedness
Unterstedt
Urmson
vertically aligned
wandering paradentosis
Willem Janszoon