英文短篇故事（纽约）370 New DVD Cable Causes Discord

 　　He bought a DVD player. He went home. He unplugged the old DVD player from the living room flat-screen TV. He hooked¹ up the new player. He plugged the old player into the 10-year-old TV in the bedroom. His wife came home. She said, "Why didn't you just plug the new player into our bedroom TV? You always do everything the hard way." He said, "Because I couldn't. New DVD players don't use those cables with the red, white, and yellow pin connectors. They use cables with HDMI connectors, which are rectangular². I can't plug a rectangular connector into a round hole." She said, "I don't believe that." He said, "You don't believe that? What you don't believe doesn't change the facts. Some people don't believe the Earth is round." She said, "Well, I'm not one of those people. I just don't believe that you know what you are doing."

1 hooked   

adj.钩状的，弯曲的

参考例句：

• I first got hooked on scuba diving when I was twelve. 12 岁时我开始迷上了带水肺潜水。
• He hooked his arm round her neck and pulled her head down. 他一只胳膊钩在她的脖子上，把她的头拉低。

2 rectangular   

adj.矩形的，成直角的

参考例句：

• He put a rectangular box on the table.他把一个长方形的箱子放在桌子上。
• The equations are written in rectangular coordinates.这些方程是在直角座标系中写出的。