时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   It was 10 a.m. He was snoring 1. The phone rang. It was his wife. "Are you still sleeping?" she asked. He said no. "Is that the truth?" she asked. Okay, he was sleeping, he said. "You said you wouldn’t sleep in anymore. You said you'd get up at eight and write all day long. You said you would write a book. We need money! How can you make money when you're sound asleep?" She hung up. He got up. Write, he thought. Write what? He had nothing to say—nothing that would interest anyone. Thousands of books are published 2 every year. Few of them make big money. He had never been published—not even a letter to a newspaper. But he couldn't find a job. What else could he do? Writing was the only thing he could do halfway 3 well. But write a best seller 4? He went back to sleep.



1 snoring
打呼噜,打鼾( snore的现在分词 )
  • I could hear Paul snoring in the next room. 我听得见保罗在隔壁房间里打呼噜。
  • Pushing the door open a trifle, he could hear only snoring inside. 他又走到仆婢室的门前,把门轻轻地推开,只听见屋里的鼾声。 来自汉英文学 - 家(1-26) - 家(1-26)
2 published
v.出版( publish的过去式和过去分词 );(在互联网上)发表;公布;在报刊)发表
  • The findings of the commission will be published today. 委员会的调查结果将于今天公布。
  • His diary was not published during his lifetime. 他的日记在他生前未曾发表过。
3 halfway
adj.中途的,不彻底的,部分的;adv.半路地,在中途,在半途
  • We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路,天就黑了。
  • In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上,最忌讳的是有始无终。
4 seller
n.售货者,畅销品
  • I hope for this book to become a best seller.我希望这本书会成为一本畅销书。
  • She drove a hard bargain with the seller.她狠杀卖主的价。
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absolute temperature scale of gas
acid gas
acipen-V
anchusas
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atropus atropos
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basic taper method
Benoril
bethralled
birkas
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brief
bring someone to his milk
brush dewing machine
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Clematis canescens
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cycl-
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diffuser-type centrifugal pumpe
domestic credit expansion
dry steam humidifier
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efecto
effectiveness of investment
electron device
engineering geologic condition analysis
environmental description scale
Escherichia acidi-lactic
Fortunella japonica
ggg
Gibschite
glyoxyldiureide
graded bed
heaveless
homotopy group functor
implementation-defined
indirect action
input expander
insofar
jet-edge ultrasonic generator
jouffray
lebows
lining effectiveness test after fade and recovery
longipinene
manmade inorganic fibre
masked depression
massed glaze
mechanical fastening
median fatigue strength at N cycles
Menippean
micaceous hematite
microendospore
midlatitudes
model alloy
non-fluid friction
optical lens polisher
Pacific International Yachting Association
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paracusia obtusa
personal question
phase of impedance
play back equalizer amplifier
purpurous
pyrimidinyl
racing handlebars
radar-receiver-transmitter
Ranunculus glacialiformis
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Reindeer I.
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sorc (station operation review committee)
spiral organ of Corti
sterling foreign currency bond
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swamp hares
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synchronous equatorial orbit
syndrome of endogenous heat due to yin deficiency
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tangeritin
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tetraselenodont
thrust metal
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Tone-gawa
ultraviolet range
ureterolithiasis
weareth
Wein
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