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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2-(ethylthio)ethanol
actinorhodin(e)
adhesion braking
Aster macrophyllus
batkin
beam production
bewailingly
Bihpur
bottom dead point
buchmen
CAGD
cared nothing about
catheran
chanfrin
charging nozzle
Chinese oil of cinnamon
Châtillon-la-Palud
CNSDC
company with
conical-head thermometer
conquestador
cooperative mechanism
copper coil
corticoid
crack hardy
culturally-specific
dayss
discretionary fiscal policy
driveress
elastic recoil
Elodea densa
equvalent lens
ethoxyethane
extempores
feed perpendicular force
flywheel
folliculostatin
frontal crash test
Graeffe's method
grillades
high population
hoop wrench
immediate-return
job lot control
joinder in issue
keratella valga
kinase-dead
kind of allergic to
lashing ring
linkage voltage test
load effect
Mall of America
mathy
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menial task
mogue
molefi
monstrose
Morada Nova de Minas
Morozkovo
multiple-pin mixer
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near ultraviolet ray
nobblerizes
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perhenuall
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Plouescat
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power-compensation differential scanning calorimetry
pre-calculus
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singular tangent
sister paper
software vendor
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tetraethylpyromellitate
the first snow
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under-study plan
unprejudicate
Urtica pipulifera
vegol
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yaryan evaporator
zoogonid