时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   One of the two kitchen light bulbs was out. It was circular and fluorescent 1. He placed a chair under the light. He stood on the chair. He unscrewed three screws. He removed the plastic cover. He removed the bad bulb. He inserted a new one. He screwed in the three screws that held the cover. His wife would be pleased to have a bright kitchen again. He heard the front door open. His wife walked in. She looked at him. She said, "Why are you standing 2 on that chair? That's a cheap, plastic chair. What would happen if the chair broke? You might break your leg. You'd have to go to the hospital. We don't have health insurance. The hospital bill might be $5,000. Why didn't you call maintenance? You know they'd replace the light bulb for $30! You risk $5,000 to save $30. What is the matter with you?"



1 fluorescent
adj.荧光的,发出荧光的
  • They observed the deflections of the particles by allowing them to fall on a fluorescent screen.他们让粒子落在荧光屏上以观察他们的偏移。
  • This fluorescent lighting certainly gives the food a peculiar color.这萤光灯当然增添了食物特别的色彩。
2 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。
学英语单词
agricultural damage
antihistoricism
backspins
backward compliment
band together
basalt fibre
biofriendly
bipedalism, bipedality
Birna
boat-on-board ship (bob)
boiler iron plate
cebes
clear width
conditional clauses
Connachtman
consomant
cotton taffeta
ctbs
curdione
deformation observation of military project
Dethyrona
dibenzenyl
disk type work
ditrichum subtortile card.
dragover
ecause
ECMC
El Amatal
English flute
esophageal constriction
everyday robot
excistoglandular
family Oscillatoriaceae
follower-ring valve
Gonak
gosto
gravitational exploration
grossness
guadi powder
guided missile control
habes
high-temperature test for core
hoglund
humidifier
impersonalizes
in-ceiling- type air conditioner
intermediate overhaul
Joblock
late-breaking gay
latimerol
lipophile liquid
long-sweep
lown
magnetic field index
many a pickle makes a mickle
maturing face
messerschimidia sibirica l.
microelectronic planar bipolar transistor
microradiograophy
microscopic work
multilayer dielectric filter
neutral-site
of malice prepense
osteogenesis
outpricing
outwash plain
over-pickling
pilot drift
predestiny
presidential election
principle of digital TV
production program of vehicle maintenance
profundulids
reflection at critical angle
retirement annuity
Rifocin
rural area development poject
Schweiz
Scutellaria wongkei
semielliptic surface crack
side-to-sideanastomosis
signal-to-noise ratios
skip mackerel
sodium oxide
sonsa
steady-state cosmology
Steinle-Kahlenberg test
Strong-form efficiency
surina
tank cover
thickened gasoline
transvestic transvestism
trochochlamys longa
tungsten-copper-nickel contacts
two-step heat treatment
typhus vaccine
Ulmus macrocarpa Hance
ultradry
undercapacity
washing oil
wife carrying
yard-long