时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   Connie always kept an umbrella in her desk drawer. A sunny morning could always turn into a rainy afternoon. Her "emergency 1" umbrella always kept her dry. One day it started raining at noon. She had to meet a client 2 on the Upper 3 East Side. She opened her desk drawer. She looked for her umbrella. It wasn't there. Did I leave it somewhere, she wondered. Then she remembered. She had lent it to Anne. She had lent it to Anne a week ago! Anne had borrowed it seven days ago. She was going to get her hair done. She said she would return it after she got her hair done. But she didn't. She went home after she got her hair done. The next day, Connie had asked Anne about the umbrella. Anne said, "Oh, I'm so sorry. It's at home. I'll bring it tomorrow." That was almost a week ago.



1 emergency
n.紧急情况,突然事件,非常时刻
  • You had to be ready for any emergency.你得随时预防不测。
  • She has the ability to keep calm in an emergency.她有处变不惊的本事。
2 client
n.委托人,当事人,顾客
  • She can't come to the telephone;she's serving a client.她不能来接电话,她正在接待一位顾客。
  • The lawyer produced a clever defence of his client.律师机智地为委托人辩护。
3 upper
adj.上面的,较高的;上级的,上院的;穿在外面的;北部的,地表的;后期的;n.鞋帮
  • She was introduced into upper society.她经人介绍进入上流社会。
  • Can you reach those books on the upper shelf?你能够到书架上面那一格上的书吗?
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accelerated testing
access charge
Amphos
animated gif / gif89a
bag room
Bc.
beachscapes
Beaver Scout
belferies
blood disk
bony armor
bowing stone
business on consignment
casing-pressure gas lift valve
Chetnik
clausal
construct in a representation language
continuous cooling transformation (cct)
Cooksburg
counterinvestigation
create a customer
crisis of confidence
croation
day-time
deru-
dimeter
disrooting
douleur
drew a word sketch of
expected relative value
explanatory ability
floral abortion
foamed plaster molding
frankenia pulverulenta l.
genus Glaux
genus Melanoplus
give aid to
Hedwigieae
highly branched chain
hydrogenic deposit
Ikeupo
Illyrian
intake capacity of oilwell
internal feed-back
jumel
L-reticuline
literary technique
meanesses
method of outer compensation
microviscosimete
milanowycz
mirabiliss
mobility-type analogy
motor-driven generator
multilevel plexus structure
Neuvy-Grandchamp
nobody else
oilcloth-covereds
pack saddles
paving width measurement
peptic activity
pescaras
petuned
phase lock circuit
plunger tube
PM-TC
Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging Prov.
psenes pellucidus
pull a sanctimonious face
Rail Go Service
rd-a
recordist
reichardts
repletum
ring circuit passage
rubus cissoidess
sanding gear
Saynay
segreant
shadow mask screen
shihunine
shotboard
simonson
simplify the administrative structure
sniter
soppiest
Spathiflorae
spin/slide control system
St. Patrick's Day
steel mortal
sub-record
subsumed clause
sweep check
thermophores
tovarich
track layout
tragacanth formation
two-terminal bridge
variable format part
winter heaths
Xfce
Y-jack