第540期:刚刚过去的万圣节都发生了那些趣事? 一起来看下吧

 　　发生在今年万圣夜晚的趣事

　　万圣节刚刚过去，今天分享一下在今年万圣节发生的趣事。

　　生词：

　　devour¹ v. 吞食

　　cereal n. 谷类，谷物；

　　serial² adj. 连续的；连载的；

　　When I was 6 I devoured³ all of my candy as soon as I got home from trick or treating. It wasn't until I woke up the next morning that I realized I lost my first tooth. I must have swallowed it when I was chowing down.

　　当我6岁的时候，我在“不给糖就捣蛋”回家之后，就狼吞虎咽地吃完了所有的糖果。直到第二天早上醒来，我才意识到我的第一颗牙掉了。我一定是在吃糖的时候吞进肚子里了。

　　I dressed up like Forrest Gump and went to a Halloween costume contest. A random⁴ guy I didn't know came as Lt. Dan by himself. We teamed up and won $1000. Fate? I believe so.

　　我打扮成阿甘，参加了万圣节服装比赛。一个我不认识的人是扮成了丹中尉。我们合作并赢得了1000美元。命运？我相信是这样的。

　　A kid came to my door a few years back wearing a shirt full of small cereal boxes with knives sticking out of the sides of the boxes. I asked him what he was supposed to be and he replied: ”Are you stupid or something? I’m a cereal killer⁵!”

　　几年前，一个孩子穿着一件衬衫来到我家门口，衬衫上满是麦片小盒子，盒子上扎着刀子。我问他扮演的是什么，他回答说：“你傻啊？我是谷物杀手！”（cereal 和serial 发音相同）

　　Went dressed as the corpse⁶ bride to a Halloween party, painted myself blue… the body paint wouldn't come off, so I looked like a smurf for almost a week!

　　万圣节派对我打扮成尸体新娘，把自己涂成蓝色……身上的颜料就是不掉，所以差不多一个星期我看起来像个蓝精灵！

1 devour   

v.吞没；贪婪地注视或谛听，贪读；使着迷

参考例句：

• Larger fish devour the smaller ones.大鱼吃小鱼。
• Beauty is but a flower which wrinkle will devour.美只不过是一朵，终会被皱纹所吞噬。

2 serial   

n.连本影片，连本电视节目；adj.连续的

参考例句：

• A new serial is starting on television tonight.今晚电视开播一部新的电视连续剧。
• Can you account for the serial failures in our experiment?你能解释我们实验屡屡失败的原因吗？

3 devoured   

吞没( devour的过去式和过去分词 )； 耗尽； 津津有味地看； 狼吞虎咽地吃光

参考例句：

• She devoured everything she could lay her hands on: books, magazines and newspapers. 无论是书、杂志，还是报纸，只要能弄得到，她都看得津津有味。
• The lions devoured a zebra in a short time. 狮子一会儿就吃掉了一匹斑马。

4 random   

adj.随机的；任意的；n.偶然的(或随便的)行动

参考例句：

• The list is arranged in a random order.名单排列不分先后。
• On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查，发现肉变质了。

5 killer   

n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者

参考例句：

• Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
• The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。

6 corpse   

n.尸体，死尸

参考例句：

• What she saw was just an unfeeling corpse.她见到的只是一具全无感觉的尸体。
• The corpse was preserved from decay by embalming.尸体用香料涂抹以防腐烂。