时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   The jury 1 summons 2 said to report at 8:45 a.m. to 111 Centre St. The courthouse was only a block from Chinatown. Russ joined the long line of people standing 3 outside. The line moved slowly into the courthouse. Everyone went through the security check. Russ took the elevator to Room 1121. It was a big room. It had more than 100 comfortable padded chairs. The room filled up. At 9:20 the jurors watched a short film about jury duty. After it ended, a court employee entered the room. She welcomed everyone and gave a brief speech. She asked if anyone had questions. Many people did. She told a young father who was carrying his baby in his arms, "You have a beautiful baby, sir, but you can't bring your baby to jury duty." Another man said he was confused. "Sir, it's very simple. Can you serve today and tomorrow?" she asked.



1 jury
n.陪审团,评委会;adj.临时用的;vt.挑选
  • These twelve men are believed to compose the jury.据信,陪审团是由这12人组成的。
  • The members of the jury were discharged from their duties.陪审员们被解除了职务。
2 summons
n.召唤,传唤,召集;v.传唤到法院,唤出,传到
  • They served a summons on the young man.他们向那个年轻人发出了传票。
  • The summons was withdrawn.传票被撤回。
3 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。
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accelerating mechanism
achromatous
acting pitch diameter
address generator
agar-streak method
ammonia scrubber
anthophylite
bayzhansay (baydzhansay)
beremeal
bite sth back
bouerie
Brazilian pepper tree
caraomer (negru voda)
cardioarterial
Chong Ampil
clamshell dredger
clod-hoppings
concretisations
contlines
Cruz, San Juan de la
delonixes
despiteous
Dzierzaznia
enactures
Euteroviruses
fabric puller
fade to white
fadren
false color
fermenting wort
First Reader
foordite
formwork erection
frontal line
Gentiana cuneibarba
get down and dirty
half-birds
heinousness
Holiodon
hysterism
ice-cream sada
industrial waste liquid
intake structure
isothermal ribbon
jettied
kaolack
lares et penates
lemurian dispersalpattern
lit'rally
longeaton
magnetic compensator assembly
married quarters
marsook
megasweep
mobility-impaireds
Morse cable code
negative definite Hermitian form
nerved
non-repeatable edit descriptor
Old Swedish
oul
parabythocythere longtzui
parallergia
pastie
prefacer
probabilistic search
Pteracanthus oresbius
Purba Bāsta
quadrangulates
ratio of nitrogen to phosphorus in seawater
recommended (retail) price
recording clock
recording optical tracking instrument (roti)
resource protection key
rise of vault
saddle-point azeotropic mixture
sarber
scanger
schnorchels
scrunch-drying
service test model
set out for
shut a criminal into a prison
site ranking
slues
sudoral eruptions
Sulphrosal
sympagurus burkenroadi
take your breath away
tenthest
theory of process
third-person singulars
TRCA
truljalia formosa
union republic
unwarlike
urine distributor
variable speed planer
viridis
Yours ever
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