时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   He looked at his bank statement 1 for January. How much interest had his savings 2 account 3 earned? There was $1,036 in his savings account. The account had earned all of 11 cents interest in January. He told his wife. She laughed. "That's almost three cents a week," she said. "By December, you'll have enough interest to buy a small cup of coffee." He said that his money wasn't growing at all. "But your money's safe," she said. "You won't lose it. You won't get rich, either. Rich people make money by risking 4 money. You'll never get rich if you play it safe." He said she was right. "I'm tired of playing it safe. I'm going to buy gold. Gold prices doubled in the last four years. My $1,000 will become $2,000. We'll be rich!" She laughed. "'Rich'? $2,000 is hardly rich," she said. He said, "Compared to 11 cents, it is."



1 statement
n.陈述;声明;综述
  • The government will put out a new statement tomorrow.政府将于明天发布一项新声明。
  • Put down your statement in black and white.把你的话用白纸黑字写下来。
2 savings
n.存款,储蓄
  • I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假,那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
  • By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时,他的存款已全部用完。
3 account
n.叙述;帐目;帐户
  • She left out an important item in her account.她的账目漏掉了一个重要的项目。
  • He has made several withdrawals from his bank account.他从银行账户上提了几次款。
4 risking
vt.冒…的危险(risk的现在分词形式)
  • I thanked him for risking his neck for me. 我感谢他为我冒生命危险。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I've been done down once, and I'm not risking it again. 我已经上过一次当,我不想冒第二次危险了。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
a hat
AACCLA
all-inertial guidance
Allocasuarina
aluminium gallium indium nitride
antempne
arc distortion
ARPANET
avulsion of supraorbital nerve
band rotunda
Baolo
base metal test specimen
bassen
body lice
booms out
by the nature of things
calafatite (alunite)
caterpiller tractor
cellophaned
chip level
clovia lineatocollis
cobalt deficiency anemia
cone scale
constant pressure combustion cycle
conventional maximum lightning overvoltage
cybernetist
cylinder wall
Damān and Diu, Union Territory of
dc restorer(or clamping circuit)
dejean
Dinesen, Isak
disacknowledges
dissemination channel
envelope stuffer
ethoxy-cinnamic acid
fixed interest securities
flexode
fowl leukosis
Frinight
FSCV
gangligerous
gas potential analysis
Gleason four-square test
grand teton national parks
graphec on
hachures of relief by shadow
half decked boat
henchers
hepatitis deltas
Kautilya
Khurr, Wādī al
Laxone
lealer
lienas
literary executrix
Lithocarpus attenuatus
lung cancers
magne-see
marine west coast climate
massive uraninite
mating types
meaningful memory
merokinin
mutagenesis in vitro
net dyeing machine
non-selective solvent
nonradially
noona
Ohio Regional Network
p-methoxyethylphenol
pearliness
perceptive organ
periglacial deposits
peripheral multiple neuropathy syndrome
poly-hemas
preallable
precisive
prestezza
Ranunculus gelidus
reduced refraction section
rotary presser feet
rule of stability
sanguinarin(e)
soft-sell commercials
soxhlets
spherostomatocyte
stand in error
sub-critical hardening
T circulator
table compression
tablewise
thermal stabilization
Tinaquillo
torso
trencher cap
two-floors
ultrasonic parameter
unmoderate
wait state queue
water infusion method
wiborgh phosphate
wu ts'ai