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。
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accelerometer mass
Aldous
alkali free glass
allylaloperine
analysis of a ledger account
Anemone pulsatilla
angiotenin
anthropologies
argle-bargling
azotometor
bactrocera (zeugodacus) arisanica
basis virtutum constantia
breathing area
capital function
cargo icebreaker
catocala macula
center cahnnel
center-of-pressure travel
cinquecentist
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cold-heat complication
commerciate
computer espionage
control gauge
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cross products
crpa
delind
Delphinium dolichocentroides
diapirically
die head threading machine
energy-band
fanbearers
flickerless circuit
frictional wake
fuel element column
fuel oil specific gravity
fuel-economy
geotectonics
give loose to
government-aided
growth texture
haphazard
icteric sputhum
idle exercise
inaccessibilities
jet-propeller
lactoscope
latebrosa
Lepoglava
line of thrust
listed buildings
low-energy secondary radiation
merge key
metastabilite
Microtoena vanchingshanensis
minimum yield point at elevated temperature
neng
nobble
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pentastoma denticulatum
perpheral apparatus
pivot gearing
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ruralizeed
rustybacks
saturation information
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subministrations
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tave
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tuchet
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