时间:2018-12-06 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


英语课

The yardman comes every two weeks. He drives a gray pickup 1 truck. The truck is a Ford 2. It is about 15 years old, but it runs well. It doesn’t burn oil, and it gets decent gas mileage 3. The yardman’s name is Byron.


In the back of his truck are a lawn mower 4, a leaf blower, a rake, and a shovel 5. Byron uses the leaf blower to blow leaves and dirt from the back of the building out to the front of the building. Then he rakes up the leaves into a bag. He blows the dirt out into the street. He cuts the lawn with his lawn mower. He trims the hedge. He uses the leaf blower to blow the dirt off each Welcome mat that lies in front of each apartment door.


Then he puts all the leaves, the grass trimmings, and the hedge clippings into a wheelbarrow. He pushes the wheelbarrow to the back of the building, where he uses his big shovel to empty the wheelbarrow contents into the big dumpster. It takes Byron about two hours to do this work.


When he is done, he goes half a block up the street to the house on the corner. There he does the same work again.


 



1 pickup
n.拾起,获得
  • I would love to trade this car for a pickup truck.我愿意用这辆汽车换一辆小型轻便卡车。||The luck guy is a choice pickup for the girls.那位幸运的男孩是女孩子们想勾搭上的人。
2 Ford
n.浅滩,水浅可涉处;v.涉水,涉过
  • They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上,所以我们只能涉水过河。
  • If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪,必须极度小心。
3 mileage
n.里程,英里数;好处,利润
  • He doesn't think there's any mileage in that type of advertising.他认为做那种广告毫无效益。
  • What mileage has your car done?你的汽车跑了多少英里?
4 mower
n.割草机
  • We need a lawn mower to cut the grass.我们需要一台草坪修剪机来割草。
  • Your big lawn mower is just the job for the high grass.割高草时正需要你的大割草机。
5 shovel
n.铁锨,铲子,一铲之量;v.铲,铲出
  • He was working with a pick and shovel.他在用镐和铲干活。
  • He seized a shovel and set to.他拿起一把铲就干上了。
学英语单词
absorption characteristic
affectional category
amotivational
aryl guanidine
autoautorhythmic cell
bazar-e masal
bendiness
beneficial interest in property
Bessemer, Sir Henry
betatron-oscillation frequency
carcass ply
Cejkovice
censours
cinepazide maleate
clear-mindeds
clewiston
codependents
decimal addition
depth callipers
differential phase-shift
double-brazed grating
Dynapen
E-E energy transfer
elastic quartz
electric moistening device
enthetic disease
explendency
falconeri
false easting
first-degree discrimination
floating mud
fluorite (fluor)
force model
funding mismatch
g.m.s
German-American Bund
GMC
Gumla
Halle-an-der-Saale
HKAO
homogeneous arc
improving agent
inerasable,inerasible
inlet ram
inner-tube adaptor
iron diboride
jarina
jjb
kefuffles
kiln foundation
leech rope
Li Shih-min
low melting-point alloy
Mag-Ox
manularity
mathematical table
matrix structural analysis
meridianal
montigny
mooring buoy with telephonic or telegraphic communications
Natrialba
order of symmetrical determinant
oriental chrysolite
package management systems
panies
parametric downconverter
payner
pectinate ligament of iris
pinhole
poppletons
prepared drug in pieces
range shift
rectoes
regio cubiti medialis
resistance stitch-welding
resistive divider
ripening process
rood-screen
separator type
Skraup quinoline synthesis
sliding window protocol
social tagging
solid state microwave device
states of qatar
stratified volcano
streetwalkers
strig
system accuracy criteria
The Ranking of Claims
tight-strong weld
titan yellow
town inspector
ultra-conservatives
unco guid
underspendings
unwisdom
vaccine schedule for immunization
vihar
vined
weight of litter at weaning
wing tip flare
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