时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:赖世雄中级美国英语


英语课

  Many people seek fame and wealth. Gul Muhammed sought neither. However, through fate he is famous. Heis so sort that he is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest man in the world. He measuresonly 57 centimeters. Though he has fame, he is not rich. In fact, he's too poor to pay his own medical bills.

Recently, when Gul became so ill that he had to be brought to the hospital, he didn't have enough moneyfor the medicine. What a pitiful man he is! His story tells us that fame and wealth do not always go hand inhand. Indeed, Gul is a living example of the saying, "All that glitters is not gold."


 

 


 


All that glitters is not gold. 部分否定

be as poor as a church mouse

widow 寡妇

seek = look for = be in search of

notorious = infamous 1 恶名昭张      be notorious for naughty

Don't bow(surrender) to fate. 不向命运低头      bowtie 蝴蝶结

stout 2 -- thick,black,bitter beer 黑啤酒    potbelly大肚皮

be poor at sth 很差    be good at

medical bill 医药费

foot the bill = pay the bill  付账 

When his father fell ill, Tom rushed home from work.

miserable 3 惨的   pitiful 可怜的      It's a pity/a shame/pitiful/too bad he can't come.  

living 活生生的    living dictionary





 



1 infamous
adj.声名狼藉的,臭名昭著的,邪恶的
  • He was infamous for his anti-feminist attitudes.他因反对女性主义而声名狼藉。
  • I was shocked by her infamous behaviour.她的无耻行径令我震惊。
2 stout
adj.强壮的,粗大的,结实的,勇猛的,矮胖的
  • He cut a stout stick to help him walk.他砍了一根结实的枝条用来拄着走路。
  • The stout old man waddled across the road.那肥胖的老人一跩一跩地穿过马路。
3 miserable
adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的
  • It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他,这是可耻的。
  • Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。
学英语单词
Alpha-Sepiolite
Amatsu-kominato
ammonotelic
antarctic life zone
anticipated values
audens
baierine(columbite)
bedell
boisbaudran
bollixes
bounce lighting
brown clay
C-pair
carbide method
cascade outages
catwalks
chloraluminite
clonal test
colloidosomes
color graphic monitor
convergency irradiation
crants
danubius
data processing facilities
debromoaplysin
decimal arithmetic operation
delivery man
Djarakpana
earthboard
ecotowns
eikonal model
faces the music
filing medium
form of corrosion
forward conveyor pawl
full wave rectifier
general purpose varnish
genus streptococcuss
grauerholz
Helderbergian
hendiadyses
Holman stamp
hydrostatical levelling apparatus
ice blended
inrichments
inviscates
kakadu
lack of proportion
lausannes
leaf curl of peach
lower-caste
lucrezias
magnetic tape converter
main bang
marteline
Martens test
mccomb
metonymizes
millio
Mingteke Daban (Mintaka P.)
Neoshirakia japonica
noblesses
nondrinking
normal intensity of labo(u)r
novelant
octogonal
oldknows
Pinoyella
platelet activating factor
postarticular
primary product
put life into something
Readstown
record concert
recording offset angle
rocklay
scamper through
seiwa
semi-arid region
sendri
seymond disc crusher
shunt bar
sliothar
steal a glance at
sub-network
superhigh
superprofit
sympathoadrenomedullary
syrup of orange
Thalictrum fortunei
thermodynamic quantity transducer
to sb.'s face
top level men
torsion frequency
transformation by reciprocal half line
unpicturability
urokinases
utility branch
wage bargaining
Wahhabists
willmar
Xiang River