Tuesdays with Morrie leech

Now we sat together, a few feet from the newest addition to the house: an oxygen machine. It was small and portable, about knee-high. On some nights, when he couldn't get enough air to swallow, Morrie attached the long plastic tubing to his nose, clamping on his nostrils like a leech. knee-'high tall enough to reach your knees tubing /ˈtuːbɪŋ/ tubes in general, especially when connected together into a system clamp /klæmp/ to put or hold something in a position so that it cannot move leech /liːtʃ/ a small soft creature that fixes itself to the skin of animals in order to drink their blood 目的： 熟悉单词 熟悉语流 熟悉阅读 同系列最近三篇： indecipherable churn tenement 点击阅读原文，查看本栏目介绍