时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   Neil stood by the rail. He looked at the water 30 feet below. The boat left the dock. Everyone was enjoying the view. People were taking pictures of the Manhattan skyline. The wind suddenly gusted 2. The strong gust 1 blew Neil's cap off. He saw it hit the water. The boat arrived at Liberty Island. Everyone got off. Neil walked toward the statue. The statue was much bigger up close. It was on top of a pedestal. The pedestal was almost 100 feet high. A security guard was sitting on a concrete wall. The wall was only a few feet high. It bordered the walkway around the statue. Neil asked, “Why is the statue green?” The guard said he didn't know. Neil continued walking. He saw a plaque 3 fixed 4 to the wall. The plaque said oxidation had turned the copper 5 statue green. The plaque was about 100 feet from the guard.



1 gust
n.阵风,突然一阵(雨、烟等),(感情的)迸发
  • A gust of wind blew the front door shut.一阵大风吹来,把前门关上了。
  • A gust of happiness swept through her.一股幸福的暖流流遍她的全身。
2 gusted
n.饰板,匾,(医)血小板
  • There is a commemorative plaque to the artist in the village hall.村公所里有一块纪念该艺术家的牌匾。
  • Some Latin words were engraved on the plaque. 牌匾上刻着些拉丁文。
3 fixed
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
4 copper
n.铜;铜币;铜器;adj.铜(制)的;(紫)铜色的
  • The students are asked to prove the purity of copper.要求学生们检验铜的纯度。
  • Copper is a good medium for the conduction of heat and electricity.铜是热和电的良导体。
学英语单词
aethelthryths
air grating
al-yawer
altitude
Arsenal process
at railway speed
autochthonic
automatic fire-extinguishing system
battery module
Betanal
Bio-Tab
bizets
black label
bloodloss
book condenser
calm and content himself of Heaven Tao
CH31
circular functions
coating by vapour decomposition
COMLA
core flooding
country seat
court favour
courtesy announcement
Dendrocalamus hamiltonii
design reference period
dibromethane
diethyl telluride
emotional experiences
empyreumatic
Esperantism
floating-rate note
gas head-transfer coefficient
gear measuring wire
general instruction to tenders
genus dicranopteriss
ground surface
hand harrow
hypsophobia
in-born
infeed ratchet wheel
inflation subsidy
intermittent chaos
Irigaray
iron block
iron-nickels
Isocrates
isopropenyl acetate
itinerating
leiomyoma of appendix
Leptospria interrogans
manzer
mccosker
mentoposterior
misunderstanding
monosegmental
most favoured nation
multipoint topoint connection
mumblers
nonulcer
novelise
nucleas si
ovaroit
paired cable
pate a chouxes
pediatric thrombocytopenia
per caput
perifolliculitis of head
pintsized
pollution by particulates
polyomaviruria
pore conduction
porphyria cutanea
practice of
preparing salt
pressure gain
procedure implementation language
programmed data quantizer
quilpe
radiation monitoring film
reduced voltage starter
rotary broom-slat sweeper
rounding bit
saccluse
safagas
short dot
spun out
squits
steam distributing system
superheater pyrometer
Tago-Sato-Kosaka
telophase i
tidal gravimeter
tidal migration
transperineal biopsy
Tumuc-Humac Mts.(Tumucumaque, Serra)
uracyl
vibed
vouter
Westminster Bridge
yummily
zoxazoiamine