6 Rubber tires are not what protect you from lightning when you're in your car. 6当你在车里的时候，橡胶轮胎并不能保护你免受闪电电击。 You're protected because when lightning hits a car, it travels around the outside of the m...
1Lightning strikes more than eight million times a day worldwide. 1世界每天有超过八百万次的闪电。 That's about 93 times per second. 大约是每秒93次。 2 How hot is a lightning bolt? About 50,000Ffive times hotter than the surface...
I see the day when it won't mean so much to a tiny soul to have me sit next to her and read a story, one that means little to either of us 我看到有一天，我坐在她旁边对她来说不再那么意义非凡，读着我们两个都觉得毫无意...
She sees me looking! Back to work. 她看见我在望着她！接着出题。 (What is the significance of the motto carved on the bow of Benito Cereno's ship?) （刻在贝尼托塞莱诺船头上的格言有什么意义?） She pats the wicker chai...
I leave them in conversation and return to my desk. 我留下他们两个说着话，自己回到办公桌前。 Within five minutes she appears before me, wearing her mother's shoes. 不到五分钟，她就穿着她妈妈的鞋子出现在我面前，...
I CAN DO MY OWN work fairly well during most of these chores, 大部分的家务活，我都能很好地完成。 and so I concentrate on Melville. 所以我把注意力集中在梅尔维尔的出题上。 (Discuss the similarity of the alienation th...
She follows a daily routine that is both time-consuming and challenging. 她每天的工作既费时又有挑战性。 It includes certain basic tasks: 包括一些基本任务： watching the grop. (That would be the fish.) Sweeping the rug in her r...
MISSY, I CALLED to my wife, did you smear Vaseline on my desk? 米西，我对妻子喊道，你把凡士林放在我桌子上了吗? No, honey. Meghan probably did. 没有，亲爱的，可能是梅根放的。 Just like that. Calm. 就像这样。冷...
A CAT'S SECOND LIFE 猫的二次生命 Our black-and-gray tabby cat had been missing an unusual three days. 我们那只黑白相间的虎斑猫离奇失踪了三天。 On the fourth day, I found him halfsmashed on the pavement a block from our house...
Hoping to smooth things over, Polito herself e-mailed Neely on January 14, 2015, asking for their cover choice. 2015年1月14日，波利托给尼莉发了一封电子邮件，询问她们的封面选择，希望能顺利解决这件事情。 Polito...
A MONTH after her October 2014 wedding, 2014年10月结婚一个月后， Neely Moldovan e-mailed her photographer and asked for a CD with her wedding photos. 尼莉摩尔多瓦给她的摄影师发了一封电子邮件，索要结婚照光盘。 Acc...
When I enter Pete's home, he's in the bedroom with Jimmie's body, sitting on the bed stroking her hair. 我走进皮特的家，吉米躺在床上，皮特抚摸着她的头发。 I sit beside him. He's a big, rough-looking man with a crooked nose an...
My cell phone rings, dragging me back to the present. 我的手机响了，一下子把我回拉到现实。 He's drinking, the nurse says curtly. 他在喝酒，护士简短地说道。 It looks like hard stuff. 事情不太好处理。 I ask her to...
YOU NEED TO GET HERE NOW! 你必须现在就到这！ The nurse whispers anxiously over the phone. It's after midnight. 护士在电话里小声地说着话，有些焦急，已是后半夜了。 One of our hospice patients has just died at home, 我们...
41,200,000 AMERICANS ARE FOOD INSECURE. 4120万美国人缺乏食品保障。 (Meaning they don't know when or how they'll get their next meal) （意思是他们不知道下一顿饭在何时何地） 13 MILLION AMERICAN CHILDREN FACE HUNGERTHAT'S 1...
