时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   At the dollar store, he saw a folding cane 1. It was adjustable 2 and only $7.99. It was a good buy in case of an emergency. A cane is like a flashlight, he thought. It's better to have one when you need it than to have to go buy one when you need it. When he got home, he went online. Folding canes 3 started at $25. A week later, he injured his knee. He spent two days in bed. Then he started using his cane to get around. He felt lucky he had bought the cane when he did. The timing 4 had been just right. When his wife saw him using the cane, she asked, "When did you get that?" He said he had bought it a week ago at the dollar store. She said, "That's why you injured your knee. You cursed yourself. Thank goodness that store doesn't sell wheelchairs."



n.手杖,细长的茎,藤条;v.以杖击,以藤编制的
  • This sugar cane is quite a sweet and juicy.这甘蔗既甜又多汁。
  • English schoolmasters used to cane the boys as a punishment.英国小学老师过去常用教鞭打男学生作为惩罚。
adj.可调整的,可校准的
  • More expensive cameras have adjustable focusing.比较贵的照相机有可调焦距。
  • The chair has the virtue of being adjustable.这种椅子具有可调节的优点。
n.(某些植物,如竹或甘蔗的)茎( cane的名词复数 );(用于制作家具等的)竹竿;竹杖
  • Sugar canes eat sweet. 甘蔗吃起来很甜。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I saw several sugar canes, but wild, and for cultivation, imperfect. 我还看到一些甘蔗,因为是野生的,未经人工栽培,所以不太好吃。 来自英汉 - 翻译样例 - 文学
n.时间安排,时间选择
  • The timing of the meeting is not convenient.会议的时间安排不合适。
  • The timing of our statement is very opportune.我们发表声明选择的时机很恰当。
学英语单词
accounting control system
ammonium borate
arbitrable
Azamgarh
balances of international payments
basic chart
Bcell differentiation factor
bird-hunting
breaking-in mileage
brings it
bronchomotor tone
buoyancy leg
cable bolting
calyptothecium tumidum
character-oriented machine
clear etching
colpocystoureterocystotomy
concentrating machine
configuration-independent software
cooling jet
countercountermeasures
critick
damascenes
depreciation by working hours
dry-laid masonry wall
Durward
editor print-punch
El Mezquite
electro-oculogram
electro-optical light-detecting apparatus
fagopyrum esculentums
force ... into
Forsvik
forward propagation tropospheric scatter
gate arch
glow-discharge positional indicator
guide wire
Guinea Highlands
halfpennyworths
head gap adjustment
heating appratus
Hoya hainanensis
international Convention on Load lines
isolated conductor
Jupiter II
kersplode
kurdaitcha man
leithia
Les Junies
leucoprophylaxis
make yourselves known to
Mazanderanis
misdoubteth
nickel steel gas welding rod
niponicum
nitro mannitol
non agency
on the track
orthogonality of character
parallel processing unit
partial coefficient of correlation
path bracket
perpetuelle
phase invertor
Primula tayloriana
propellant-servicing vehicle
quarter-girth
rank-order correlation coefficient
reflecting acoustic pressure
regional dynamics
releaser pheromone
repayment rate
RJP (remote job processing)
rouke
self-absorptions
Shungubweni
sibling nodes
solid colored
spadassin
staggered intermittent weld
steady short-circuit current
steam-driven pumpig system
Strongylidae
stshsesns-s
succulent fruit
sweet band
tetraisoamyl silicane
Theodore Dreiser
theomorphic
thrust journal
to pile
trace flow
transfer problem
trassard
type of memory addressing
uk show
united states mints
valencienne
vibration measurement instrument
while away something
Xenarchi
yellow sandalwood