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THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
1. raise one's eyebrows = to express one's astonishment
e.g. The general raised his eyebrows. He seemed hurt.
2. only just 刚刚
e.g. "But, my dear fellow," he protested, "you've only just come."
3. /fill one's
glass/
e.g. He filled Rainford's glass.
4. /rest with you/ = /up to you/ 取决于你自己
e.g. The choice rests entirely with you.
5. /brighten up/ = bright-looking, cheerful
e.g. General Zaroff's face suddenly brightened.
6. May I venture to suggest that...? 冒昧的...
e.g. May I venture to suggest that you'll find my idea of sport more interesting than Ivan's?
/one's idea of.../ 某人理想中的...
to venture = to take risk
e.g. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. 不入虎穴，焉得虎子
7. sport = fun
e.g. do sth for fun = for the sport of it. 找乐子
8. chest
e.g. He nodded toward the corner to where the giant stood, his thick arms crossed on his hogshead of a chest. 独立主格
hogshead 木桶
a chest of drawers 五斗橱
9. mean 说话算数
e.g. Have I not told you I always mean what I say about hunting?
10. find sth worth doing
e.g. You'll find the game worth playing. worth playing做game的宾语补足语
11. stamia = physical resistance to 耐力
e.g. "You'll find the game worth playing," the general said enthusiastically. "Your brain against mine. Your woodcraft against mine. Your strength and stamina against mine. Outdoor chess! And the stake is not without value, eh?"
woodcraft = knowledge of forestry 打猎的知识
stake = risk
12. huskily = horase = corase 沙哑的
e.g. "And I win -" began Rainford huskily.
13. admit/acknowledge the defeat 承认失败
e.g. I'll cheerfully acknowledge my defeat if do not find you by midnight of the thrid day.
14. /in a ...air/ = /in a ...manner/ 以...的方式
e.g. He sipped his wine, and then in a businesslike air, he went on.
15. deplore = plee
e.g. The deplorable part of it was that Lazarus followed him.
16. /take a nap/ 小睡一会
snap
a) 猛的咬住
b) break off
c) 重重一击
e.g. It's a snap. 小菜一碟
e.g. He had not been entirely clear-headed when the chateau gates snapped shut behind him.
17. dawn 黎明 (=
daybreak)
18. swamp / ooze / marsland / wetland 沼泽
19. a herd of cows/sheeps
20. /keep one's nerve/ 不害怕
e.g. "I must keep my nerve." he said through tight teeth.
21. bow
a) /au/ bend down
b) /ou/ 弓
e.g. with a deep courtly bow
courtly 显贵的
courtly manners 优雅的风度
22. clear-headed = clear-minded 头脑清醒的
23. plunge
a) jump
e.g. plunge into the water
b) slump
e.g. the price is plunging.
24. spur = urge, motivate, incentive, driving force 刺激，推动
e.g. He had plunged along, spurred on by a sharp feeling of panic.
/be spurred on by.../ = /be motivated to do sth/ = /be urged to do/
25. /get a grip on.../ = /take control over sth/
e.g. He had got a grip on himself, and was taking stock of himself and the situation.
/take stock of.../ = /size up.../
26. futile = in vain, fruitless 徒劳无功的
e.g. He saw that straight flight was futile, inevitably it would bring him face to face with the sea.
flight = escape
27. /strike off/ = move on with difficulty
e.g. "I'll give him a trail to follow," muttered Rainsford, and he struck off from the rude paths he had been following through into the trackless wilderness.
28. intricate = carefully prepared
e.g. He executed a series of intricate loops; he doubled on his trail again and again, recalling all the lore of the fox hunt, and all the dodges of the fox.
29. legweary = exhausted, extremely tired
e.g. Night found him legweary, with hands and face lashed by the branches, on a thickly wooded ridge.
30. insane = stupid, crazy, frantically
e.g. He knew it would be insane to blunder on through the dark, even if he had the strength.
/blunder on/ = come across, run into 偶然碰见
31. trunk = bough 树的主干 = limb (n.) 大树枝
e.g. A big tree with big trunk and outspread branches was nearby, and, taking care to leave not the slightest mark, he climbed up into the crotch, and stretching out on one of the broad limbs, after a fashion, rested.
/climb up/ = /tin up/
/after a fashion/ = /after sound fashion/ = /in a fashion/ = /in sound fashion/ 勉勉强强的
32. so + adj + a + n as ...
e.g. so beautiful a girl like her
e.g. Even so zealous a hunter as General Zaroff could not trace him there, he told himself; only the devil himself could follow that complicated trail throught the jungle after dark.
33. dingy = still dark
e.g. The night crawled slowly like a wounded snake, and sleep did not visit Rainsford although the silence of a dead world was on the jungle. Toward morning when a dingy gray was varnishing the sky, the cry of some startled bird focused Rainsford's attention in that direction.
34. flatten oneself down on the limb 平趴下，伏下身子
e.g. He flattened himself down on the limb, and through a screen of leaves, saw it was a man.
35. /fix one's eys on.../ = /stare at/ = /strain one's eyes/
e.g. He made his way along with his eyes fixed in utmost concentration on the ground.
e.g. Straining his eyes, he saw the lean figure of the general.
make one's way
fight one's way
wind one's way
find one's way
to utmost = up to a maximum limit
in utmost concentration 做fix one's eyes on的插入语
utmost = abysmal = extreme
try my utost
36. act on an impulse 一时冲动而为之
e.g. Rainsford's impulse was to hurl himself down like a panther.
panther = puma
/hurl down/=/throw
down/
fling / hurl / throw/ pitch 扔
e.g. She flung her arms around his neck and drew his face down to hers.
37. bewildered = buffled = puzzled = confused = at a loss
e.g. The hunter shook his head several times, as if puzzled.
38. tense 肌肉紧绷
e.g. Rainsford froze there, every muscle tense for the spring.
39.
deliberate
a) on purpose
b) contemplated
c) 从容不迫的
e.g. Very deliberately, he
blew
40. pent-up = restricted, supressed
e.g. The pent-up air burst from Rainsford's lungs.
41. numb = lose conscious
e.g. His first thought made him feel sick and numb.
42. uncanny = mysterious
e.g. uncanny powers
43. /by the merest chance/ = chance in a million
e.g. Only by the merest chance had the Cossack failed to see his quarry.
44. /slide down/ 滑下
e.g. He slid down from the tree and struck off again into the woods.
45. precarious = unsteady, undetermined, insecure, unstable
e.g. Three hundred yards away he stopped where a huge dead tree leaned precariously on a smaller, living one.
to lean
a) /lean against/ = /lean on/ = /rest on/ 依靠在...
leaning tower
e.g. But he was not quick enough; the dead tree, delicately adjusted to rest on the cut living one, crashed down and struck him on the shoulder; but for his alertness, he must have been smashed beneath it.
b) 斜的
e.g. Straining his eyes, he saw the lean figure of the general.
46. /throw behind.../ = hide
e.g. And he threw himself behind a fallen log a hundred feet away.
47. following ...came ...
e.g. Following the trail with the sureness of the a bloodhund came the general.
48. escape = flee
e.g. Nothing escaped those searching eyes, no crshed blade of grass, no bent twig, no mark in the moss.
moss 苔
A rolling stone gathers no moss. 滚石不生苔，转业不生财.
49. /be intent on/ = /be intent upon/ = /be determined to do sth./
e.g. So intent was the Cossack on his stalking that he was upon the thing Rainsford had made before he saw it.
stalking = tracing 围捕
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