时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   He was at the Staples 1 checkout 2 counter. A red and white plastic "button" was on the counter. It was about five inches in diameter. On top of its plastic dome 3 was the word "Easy." He asked the clerk, "What's this?" She said, "That's the Easy button." He asked, "What's it for?" She said, "Press down on it." He pressed down on the dome. He heard, "That was easy!" He pressed down again. Again, he heard, "That was easy!" He asked, "Is that it? Does it say anything else?" She said, "No, that's all it says. Do you want to buy one?" He said, "Buy one? This thing costs money?" She said, "It's only $5." He said, "$5!? Why would anyone pay $5 for this?" She said, "They see the button on our TV commercials. They think it's cute." He said, "But it doesn't do anything!" She said, "But it's cute!"



1 staples
n.(某国的)主要产品( staple的名词复数 );钉书钉;U 形钉;主要部份v.用钉书钉钉住( staple的第三人称单数 )
  • The anvil onto which the staples are pressed was not assemble correctly. 订书机上的铁砧安装错位。 来自辞典例句
  • I'm trying to make an analysis of the staples of his talk. 我在试行分析他的谈话的要旨。 来自辞典例句
2 checkout
n.(超市等)收银台,付款处
  • Could you pay at the checkout.你能在结帐处付款吗。
  • A man was wheeling his shopping trolley to the checkout.一个男人正推着购物车向付款台走去。
3 dome
n.圆屋顶,拱顶
  • The dome was supported by white marble columns.圆顶由白色大理石柱支撑着。
  • They formed the dome with the tree's branches.他们用树枝搭成圆屋顶。
学英语单词
Adenocaulon himalaicum
aft end face of boss
anti-scour trench
beacom
Benmore Pk.
biforate
bipolar leads
brace in/to
butler matrix
call-ups
canapes
caper(s)
charge and discharge valve
clematis terniflora garanbiensis
cognetta
common plantar digital nerves
condenser throat
conical flask with ground-in glass stopper
continuous branching
contributour
crackerberry
crossed-action truss
cultural map
cunny-catching
curtesy
dance of marie magdaleine (france)
diazo stabilizer
differential pressure switch
diphtherial
dosis non-neutralisata
double-step write compensation
editorialization
effect of finite Larmor radii
Ejiao San
elderships
epiperipheral feeling
excess profit
extra-pure grade
floxes
genus Scincus
gets dressed
ground control survey of tunnel
GTBA
hand-to-mouth-purchasing
high bandwidth link
high performance resin
high purity antimony
hydrophlogopite
hyomandibular cleft
hyperbolic cotangent
incisas
inclination of roof
index of performance
instrument-panel lamp
leeden
line output transformator
Longton
loundering
Marble Halls
maximizing land power
measurement state
mercury film relay
mock romaine fabric
multiple line format
munstead
On your way!
pacific coasts
peroxide value
phrygian deities
plug-finishing bur
polysyphorin
porritts
previous job
public nuisance from blasting
qualitative variable model
racephedrines
rainbow bird
rediagnosing
reluctating
rood-screen
rotary current
roving antiaircraft gun
sampling device
scairce
shaikha
shear-type drill boom
shreddy
slapstick
slatterns away
South Koreans
steam ejection system
track booster
transverse property
trigonocephalic
usurpable
variable drop mechanism
virtuosa
Volosovo
voltaic photo-detector
webvertising
workcamps
written representation