和谐英语

高中英语人教版02

2015-05-14来源:和谐英语

[20:11.61]Part of it was one metre underground.
[20:16.86]In winter it felt like a barn,
[20:22.03]he had to wear a heavy coat and put his feet in a box to keep warm.
[20:28.98]Every morning,Murray got out of bed at five o'clock
[20:35.23]and worded several hours before breakfast.
[20:40.27]Often he would work by candle light into the evening.
[20:47.11]Murray hoped to finish the new dictionary in ten years.
[20:54.48]But after five years,he was still adding words for the letter A!
[21:01.74]Then others went to work with Murray,including his two daughters.
[21:09.21]He worked on the dictionary until he was very old.
[21:15.66]Forty-four years later,in 1928,other editors finished it.
[21:24.21]It included more than 15,000 words in twelve books.
[21:32.25]And you thought your English dictionary was big!