[14:54.56]Lesson 24
[14:58.93]skeleton
[15:00.35]骷髅
[15:01.77]a skeleton in the cupboard
[15:03.85]家丑
[15:05.93]The quiet streets stretched out on either side like the arms of a skeleton.
[15:09.36]静静的街道从两旁伸出来，像骷髅伸着枯臂。
[15:12.80]The poor old man was just a skeleton.
[15:15.16]可怜的老人瘦成了一把骨头。
[15:17.52]seemingly
[15:18.96]表面上地
[15:20.40]We often read in novels how a seemingly respectable person or family
[15:24.08]在小说中，我们经常读到一个表面上体体面面的人物
[15:27.76]has some terrible secret which has been concealed from strangers for years.
[15:31.34]或家族有些多年不为人知的隐私。
[15:34.92]Any seemingly viable proposition will be tested by market research.
[15:38.25]任何表面上可行的建议都要通过市场研究检验。
[15:41.58]The negotiations had come to a seemingly unbreakable deadlock.
[15:44.77]谈判到了一个看来无法打开的僵局。
[15:47.96]respectable
[15:49.42]体面的，雅观的
[15:50.88]She was under a respectable roof,and among kind,though rough people.
[15:54.37]她呆在一个体面的人家，那些人虽然粗鲁，可是心肠极好。
[15:57.86]He put on the only respectable hat he had.
[16:00.34]他戴上了惟一顶体面的帽子。
[16:02.82]conceal
[16:04.51]隐藏，隐瞒
[16:06.19]In the midst of her grief and tears
[16:08.37]纵然满心悲伤，
[16:10.55]she was yet careful to conceal the news from her children.
[16:13.43]她还是小心翼翼地不让孩子们知道那个消息。
[16:16.30]I observed that they bot appeared to conceal themselves.
[16:19.19]我觉得他们两个都在有意隐藏自已。
[16:22.07]vivid
[16:23.44]生动的
[16:24.82]The English language possesses a vivid saying to describe this sort of situation.
[16:28.40]英语中有一个生动的说法来形容这种情况。
[16:31.97]That episode was still so vivid to her.
[16:34.91]当时的情景仍然历历在目。
[16:37.85]She made a vivid description of her tour.
[16:37.35]她对她的旅行作了一场生动的描述。
[16:36.85]dramatic
[16:38.38]令人激动的，扣人心弦的
[16:39.91]At some dramatic moment in the story,
[16:41.45]在小说的某个戏剧性时刻
[16:42.99]the terrible secret becomes known and a reputation is ruined.
[16:46.11]秘密暴露，接着便是这个人身败名裂。
[16:49.23]A long term of imprisonment and a dramatic escape
[16:54.41]had not daunted his fighting spirit.
[16:56.89]长期的监禁和一次戏剧性的潜逃并未挫磨他的战斗精神。
[16:59.37]New York Times,in a front-page story,called the firing
[17:02.54]《纽约时报》在头版把这次解职称为
[17:05.72]'one of the most dramatic shakeups in the history of the Ford Company.'
[17:08.90]“福特公司史以来最富戏剧性的人员大变动。”
[17:12.09]ruin  Jimmy has ruined everything.
[17:13.97]毁坏 吉米把什么都毁了。
[17:15.85]One man's mental blackout ruined the last hope of two nations.
[17:18.97]一个人神智不清，两个国家的希望都被毁灭了。
[17:22.10]heroine
[17:23.48]女主人公
[17:24.86]The reader's hair stands on end
[17:27.08]当读者读到小说的最后几页
[17:29.31]when he read in the final pages of novel that the heroine,
[17:32.34]发现书中的女主人公，
[17:35.37]a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody,
[17:38.49]那位和蔼可亲的老太太年轻时
[17:41.61]had,in her youth,poisoned every one of her five husbands.
[17:45.10]连毒死她的五个丈夫，都会觉得毛骨悚然。
[17:48.58]The sea-stories are sometimes weakened by the necessity for a heroine.
[17:52.12]有时候硬往海洋小说里加女主人公反而会削弱小说的力度。
[17:55.66]In the movie The Color Purple,the actress Whoopi Goldbery plays the heroine.
[17:59.59]在电影《紫色》里，女演员乌比.戈德堡扮演女主人公。
[18:03.53]fiction
[18:05.35]小说
[18:07.18]It is all very well for such tings to occur in fiction.
[18:09.85]这种事发生在小说中是无可非议的。
[18:12.51]He was especially interested in splitting atoms,
[18:15.15]他对分裂原子尤其感兴趣
[18:17.79]which at that point seemed still in the realm of science fiction.
[18:20.82]---这在当时似乎还属于科幻小说的范畴。
[18:23.85]Truth is often stranger than fiction.
[18:26.19]事实往往比小说更奇怪。
[18:28.52]varying
[18:29.95]不同的
[18:31.37]To varying degrees,
[18:33.31]尽管我们都或多或少地有些秘密，
[18:35.24]we all have secrets which we do not want even our closest friends to learn,
[18:38.57]连最亲密的朋友都不愿说，
[18:41.90]but few of us have skeletons in the cupboard.
[18:44.47]但极少人当真有“柜中骷髅”。
[18:47.05]Both sisters are fastidious,only in varying degrees.
[18:50.18]姐妹俩都很挑剔，不过程度不同而已。
[18:53.32]He has got used to her varying moods.
[18:55.64]他已经习惯了她变化多端的情绪了。
[18:57.96]medicine
[18:59.35]医学
[19:00.73]George studied medicine in his youth.
[19:03.11]乔治年轻时学过医。
[19:05.49]Modern medicine can cure many diseases that used to kill many people.
[19:09.21]现代医学已可以治愈许多不治之症。
[19:12.93]Medicine is always a little behind illness.
[19:15.51]医学总是比疾病慢一步。
[19:18.08]guestroom
[19:19.82]来客住房
[19:21.55]George showed me to the guestroom which,he said,was rarely used.
[19:24.98]乔治把我领到客房，说这个房间很少使用。
[19:28.40]Oddly enough the family preferred to live in the guestroom.
[19:31.68]奇怪的是，这家人宁可住在家里。
[19:34.95]In the spring-cleaning Mother forgot about the three guestroom upstairs.
[19:38.19]大扫除时妈妈忘了楼上的三间客房。
[19:41.43]unpack
[19:42.80]取出
[19:44.18]He told me to unpack my things and then come down to dinner.
[19:47.06]他让我打开行李后下楼吃饭。
[19:49.95]She unpacked the novels she had brought with her,and turned them over.
[19:53.03]她把带来的几本小说拿出来，一本一本地翻阅。
[19:56.11]Forty-two medium-rang,nuclear missiles are being unpacked.
[19:59.20]42枚中程核导弹正在拆箱。
[20:02.28]stack
[20:04.16]堆放，排放
[20:06.04]After I had stacked my shirts and underclothes in two empty drawers,
[20:09.42]我把衬衣、内衣放进了两个空抽屉，
[20:12.81]I decided to hang one of the two suits I had brought with me in the cupboard.
[20:16.28]随后准备从随身带来的两套西服里拿一套挂到衣柜里。
[20:19.75]The goods are specially packaged so that they stake easily.
[20:22.58]货物经过物别包装，以便于堆放。
[20:25.40]The workers stacked the bicks up against the wall.
[20:27.93]工人把砖头整齐地码在墙边。
[20:30.46]underclothes
[20:31.99]内衣
[20:33.52]Cotton underclothes are good for the skin.
[20:36.20]棉制内衣对皮肤有益。
[20:38.88]The lace on the underclothes had got loose.
[20:41.36]内衣上的花边松了。
[20:43.84]drawer
[20:45.26]抽屉
[20:46.69]The key is in the top drawer of my desk.
[20:49.06]钥匙在我桌子最上面一个抽屉里。
[20:51.44]She emptied the drawer but the letter was not there.
[20:53.97]她把抽屉腾空了出没找到那封信。
[20:56.51]petrify
[20:58.48]使惊呆
[21:00.45]I opened the cupboard door and then stood in front of it petrified.
[21:03.69]我打开了柜门，站在柜子跟前，一下子惊呆了。
[21:06.93]Everyone is petrified with terror.
[21:09.20]每个人都吓呆了。
[21:11.48]The monster in the film petrified the baby.
[21:13.96]电影里的妖怪把孩子吓呆了。
[21:16.44]dangle
[21:17.82]摇晃地
[21:19.21]A skeleton was dangling before my eyes.
[21:21.78]一具骷髅悬在我眼前，摇摇晃晃的。
[21:24.35]What is that dangling above your head?
[21:26.69]你头顶上摇摇晃晃的是什么？
[21:29.03]He saw Edna passing with a sewing kit dangling from her arm.
[21:32.27]他看见埃得娜走过头，胳膊上挂着一只缝纫袋，摇摇晃晃的。
[21:35.51]sway
[21:37.29]摇摆
[21:39.06]The sudden movement of the door made it sway slightly
[21:41.69]由于柜门突然打开，它也随之轻轻摇晃起来，
[21:44.31]and it gave me the impression that it was about to leap out at me.
[21:47.50]让我觉得它好像马上就要朝我跳扑过来似的。
[21:50.69]A wind swayed the willows.
[21:52.96]一阵风把柳树吹得摇摆起来。
[21:55.23]The senator tried to sway the president's opinion in favor of new immigration laws.
[21:58.97]参议员企图左右总统赞成新的移民法。
[22:02.70]unsympathetic
[22:04.28]不表同情的，无动于衷的
[22:05.86]But George was unsympathetic.
[22:07.78]但乔治却无动于衷。
[22:09.70]He dismissed the event with a most unsympathetic shrug.
[22:12.34]他无所谓地耸耸肩就把这件事情打发了。
[22:14.98]By nature he is not an unsympathetic man.
[22:17.91]他本性倒并不是没有同情心。
[22:20.83]medical
[22:22.22]医学的
[22:23.60]You forget that I was a medical student once upon a time.
[22:26.33]你忘了，我从前是学医的。
[22:29.06]She visited the local medical clinic for a flu shot.
[22:31.84]她到附近的诊所去打治流感的针。
[22:34.62]He has to have a medical exam before going abroad.
[22:37.45]他出国前得进行一次体检。
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