时间:2019-02-22 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   He dropped his glasses on the bathroom floor. They didn't break. They looked okay. A few days later, his right ear started hurting. He took off his glasses. The pain stopped. He put the glasses back on. The pain came back. He went to an eyeglass store. He told the worker his problem. She adjusted 1 the plastic temple for him. He put the glasses on. They felt okay. An hour later, his ear hurt again. The adjustment hadn't worked. He went to another eyeglass store. The worker adjusted his glasses. That adjustment didn't work either. His ear was killing 2 him. He took his glasses off every ten minutes to get relief. At home one day, he boiled some water. He put the temple into the water. He bent 3 the temple himself. He tried on the glasses. They felt okay. The next day, they still felt okay. His ear stopped hurting.



adj.调整过的v.(改变…以)适应,调整,校正( adjust的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The straps can be adjusted to suit the wearer. 这些背带可进行调整以适合使用者。
  • The high school adjusted its teaching approach and cancelled its departmental system. 他们高中调整了教学方法,取消了“文理分科”。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
n.爱好,癖好;adj.弯的;决心的,一心的
  • He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
  • We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。
学英语单词
adverse drug reaction
alkahest
angular orientation
antihelix
anzengruber
aripple
basketball back stop
binary matrix
bridge opening contraction
burst out
Cairofa
causerie
CD caddy
cheet scrap
chop amputation
cilley
confined groundwater, confined water
congenital deformity of the tongue
constant angular velocity
constant-resistance dc potentiometer
contained
Corydalis chamdoensis
counter control
crane vessel
crataeguss
crop and cobble shear
Cuc, R.
CW-laser illuminator
cyclopentanepentone
cylinder grease cock
despun motor
dicartron
drinking-water pump
electrotempering
elevensies
external characteristics
fan-clubs
feasible constraint
Filaria conjunctivae
flow noise
fuckos
functionated
gal operon
genus cimicifugas
gerl complex
grain-boundary attack
helpless
hemitriakis complicofasciata
highly acidic
impedance matching transformer
indian clubs
instantaneous repair rate
internal resistance of power source
isotope change
kernel of an integral transform
Langston Hughes
lavender-water
LBCD
Leukopterin
levefulle
lifo retail method
loan-to-value ratio
Lumicon
Macao monetary unit
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive
megamera
mixed model assembly
mushroom workers' lup
non-operating loss
out of danger notice
outer stripper
over-stress
overall market price coverage
Phulābād
plant comparative anatomy
plated adjustable turning chair
Plymoute rock
projective A-module
quick-work
radiation transfer index
random coil model
replacement of goods
responsible observer
romanticist
ropemen
Rosso, Cima di
rubber-faced
sequential inference machine
serrated face
setting base
shamlas
silver owl
slow-burning film
SNICP
specific conduction system
Stegersbach
streamlined landing gear axle
tlc plate
Toxocarpus wightianus
transalpina
weevilled grain
wontedly