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
A ctoryx collaris
aestivates
agricultural alcohol
arbomycin
as hard as marble
asaphis deflorata
atergatis floridus
be disgruntled
bigheadedly
boiler seating
bulpitt
Camellia gracilipes
cathode kathode catelectrode
cchf
celoma
chawffe
chol-
closed storage battery
CM/S
coil capacitance
concept design
constructive larceny
cool liming
corn fodder
corn muffins
cruise-ships
diphtheria anatoxin
discharge timer circuit
discontinuings
doubleinsulated
fixed laser bar code scanners
flaccidity syndrome
forced resonance method
Furathiocarb
giganturids
hanging scoop scale
Harg
helix agitator
humectations
humpenscrump
hydrocarburets
inner driving medium
interatrial septum
irradicate
jaspis
Joseph Priestley
keep aboriginal value
koningsplein
large white
Linnaeaceae
lives up to
low power logic
lycopersicons
Mandies
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
nitridotrisulfuric acid
Nufaru
official emissary
open kettle method
out-of-limit variable
outstanding bank notes
pantheress
permabear
plant cytogenetics
precedence grammar
premium loan
propionaphthane
Prunus pumilla susquehanae
pseudofollicular salpingitis
PTF-D
purchase order control system
Quinquaginta Decisiones
re-armament
rectification plan
rectifying
remaining hydrogen
sciage
screwing tap
select drive
selsyn transformer
senior
shoot
Sorbus esserteauiana
sourgums
stirred liquid
structure with storage class attributes
subscription fee
sulphatocobalamin
tensile yield stress
test lens set
track dynamics
trans-Stygian
tsutsugamushi diseases
turn the tide
V-curve
valve control pillar
Verberie
water-front advance map
WiFi AP
worktorule
worobec