时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   Four people lost their lives last Sunday morning. A man walked into a Long Island drugstore. He and his wife needed painkillers 1. He shot and killed everyone in the drugstore. Then he stole about 5,000 painkillers. Police arrested him several days later. He was mowing 2 the lawn at his mother's house. "Why did he have to kill four people?" asked Mrs. Smith, the wife of the pharmacist. Mr. Smith was filling in on Sunday for the regular pharmacist. The regular pharmacist had stayed home for Father's Day. A young woman, Miss Garcia, was assisting Mr. Smith on Sunday. She would have graduated from high school yesterday. An elderly grandfather, Mr. Jones, was picking up a prescription 3 for his ailing 4 wife. A single mother, Miss Evans, was picking up a prescription for her son. She was to get married next month. "Why did he have to kill ANYBODY?" wailed 5 Mrs. Smith.



1 painkillers
n.止痛药( painkiller的名词复数 )
  • The doctor gave him some painkillers to ease the pain. 医生给了他一些止疼片以减缓疼痛。 来自辞典例句
  • The primary painkillers - opiates, like OxyContin - are widely feared, misunderstood and underused. 人们对主要的镇痛药——如鸦片剂奥施康定——存在广泛的恐惧、误解,因此没有充分利用。 来自时文部分
2 mowing
n.割草,一次收割量,牧草地v.刈,割( mow的现在分词 )
  • The lawn needs mowing. 这草坪的草该割了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • "Do you use it for mowing?" “你是用它割草么?” 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
3 prescription
n.处方,开药;指示,规定
  • The physician made a prescription against sea- sickness for him.医生给他开了个治晕船的药方。
  • The drug is available on prescription only.这种药只能凭处方购买。
4 ailing
v.生病
  • They discussed the problems ailing the steel industry. 他们讨论了困扰钢铁工业的问题。
  • She looked after her ailing father. 她照顾有病的父亲。
5 wailed
v.哭叫,哀号( wail的过去式和过去分词 )
  • She wailed over her father's remains. 她对着父亲的遗体嚎啕大哭。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The women of the town wailed over the war victims. 城里的妇女为战争的死难者们痛哭。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
Abelmoschus esculentus Moench.
active group
AFHT
agar stab culture
alphabet data code
antistatic fibre
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
baragouin
bardic function
beauxarts
bolduan
can burst
caponizes
chromatofocusing
classic device
cleed
compuss
corkscrew hazel
cost and benefit sharing
countercast
crosshead type piston
Croton purpurascens
deae-dextrans
double - entry system
dry clean
duchenne-erb(syndrome)
Duncow
electrode terminal
enddown rate
even line interlacing
eventualize
extended pitch chain
F. vs.
fossil copal
frontolyzing
genus alpinias
GM_verbs-and-verb-phrases-typical-errors
gradison
hypochlorous acids
jamaica dogwoods
jolkinin
KISV
kwell
Land of Steady Habits
lateral group
maximally general conjunctive generalization
meeras
Microsoft C
motricity
multicellular division
musk ducks
nautically
nested
nonsubsidized
not any account
ocean fishery research ship
ocular ischemia syndrome
operating strut
operational control (opc)
orbitz
ore concentration
Owen, Robert
paraffinic hydrocarbon
permanent permeability curve
pettestale
Physalis alkekengi
planet pinion carrier
prepared learning
puncta ischidiacum
quinine bisulphate
rapid nova
read winding
relative light requirement
ring forging
Rubus subornatus
ruger
saripidem
scale protrusion disease
seisonids
sequentially closed set
snap connector
snowmageddon
solex
sonorus
static memory allocation
survival education
Suzuka-tōge
swan neck insulator
the show
thousand corn weight
tinta
toss-up question
toy duck
tugh
ultimate market
Until farther notice
Venusian
vishnu system
waywarden
whiteishness
wildlife-viewing
Wookey Hole