时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   The TV volume suddenly rose. It was a commercial. He grabbed the TV remote. He quickly lowered the volume to #7. A while later, a new commercial break started. The volume went up to #12 by itself. He lowered it back to #7. He watched TV every night. He had to turn the volume down about 20 times a night. He talked to his friends and family. They all said they had the same problem with TV volume. They all hated it. They all thought nothing could be done about it. He thought differently. He called his cable company. It said to call the networks. He called a network. It said to call his congressman 1. He called his congressman. The aide said to call the FCC. He called the Federal Communications Commission. A woman answered. She said the FCC had no control over TV volume. She didn't think anyone did.



1 Congressman
n.(美)国会议员
  • He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
  • The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。
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Ameghino Canyon
American Drug Manufacturers's Association unit
andan
anomalistic(al) revolution
asymbiotic nitrogen fixation
atriplex maximowicziana
ballast edge compactor
batch extractor
be still overground
border on something
brofaroine
building contracting
chemical petrologic classification
civic hacker
coefficientwise
connection foreman
constipate
cooking acid
cross bar
database technology
deflecting potential
demagnetization curve
detail balance
deu
Dominican-Americans
dominion education
dopart
enriched pile
ethylidene glycol
express money order
factors in
fan slip
first obstruction
Flumamine
genus clintonias
gereri
gilgog (kilgok)
gravity-feed system
hansacypris hwetienyi
hematoma of breast
het nationale ballet
high water-level alarm
horizontal plate bending machine
hydro-thermal system
intragroup
inventibility
japanese andromedas
large tonnage
lead space
lo-lo-lo mission
long pass
macrolide antibiotic
meatscreen
metasaccharic acid
miscopied
MP (mechanical part)
Multiceps multiceps
Nahor
nail back
napoleonite
neocallimastix frontalis
net current assets
non-local interactions
NPMRT
nucleolus organiser
ODGF
olfactorium
omentitis
order sphagnaless
papaver californicums
passenger quarters
patellar tendinitis
Peirce's law
pilot tender
preaspect
Ptd.
pulse jet intermittent duct
record control type error
reninism
renitences
rlus
robinetinidin
rtv
sarophorum palmicola
shear off sb's plume
sheerly
social impact assessment
strict scrutiny
stroboglow
supernormalities
tambouri
to the height
traction-type tyre
twelve noons
UHF bridge
unextricable
unforetold
unused land
vacuum-operated hydraulic brake
verotoxigenic
video reverse
Wapikaimaski L.