剽窃,抄袭:plagiarism
一致的:unanimous
有明确的意图:with clear intent to。。。
偏袒:favoritism
官僚的:bureaucratic
按照....行事:act on
完美执行的:well-enforced
轻蔑的:contemptuous
制定,精制:craft
鲜活的人物:striking character
描绘了...的全貌:capture the panorama of...
出纳室:pay office
父亲一方的:paternal
仓库,工厂:warehouse
吐露秘密:confide
速记员:stenographer
转录,抄写:transcribe
速写:sketch
使人落泪:bring tears to sb's eyes
分期付款:payment by installment
白杨:poplar
背景:backdrop
散文:prose
坚定的继续工作:press on
遗腹子:posthumous child
轻易的,迅速的:runaway
胖乎乎的:plump
戴眼镜的:spectacled
贫民窟,陋巷:slump
文人,作家:man of letters
使用一种语言的:manoglot
放任自由:left to oneself
阿拉伯的:Arabic
下滑:slippage
和其他很多事情一样:as in much else
此乃人之常情:such is human nature,that
垃圾车:dustcart
博学:erudition
很高兴知道这个消息:be thrilled with the news
碰巧:happen to do
交通管理员:traffic warden
天鹅绒:velvet
铁棒:iron bar
爬行:scrample
价值数千英镑的钻石:thousands of pounds worth of diamonds
做...之用:serve as
实用的,功利主义的:utilitarian
有实用价值:play a strictly utilitarian role
障碍物:obstruction
船体:hull
仪器:apparatus
鱼群:shoal
鲱鱼:herring
鳕鱼:cod
尖叫声:squeak
避开障碍物:stear clear of obstacles=bump into
家禽:fowl=poultry
阻碍,阻挠:put sand in the wheels of...
剃须刀:razor
透析仪:dialysis machine
使触电身亡:electrocute
处于困境的:hard-pressed
推敲:hammer out
合同:pact
中世纪的吟游歌手:minstrel
间谍活动:espionage
竖琴:harp
民歌:ballad
杂技的:acrobatic
小魔术:simple conjuring
靠...为生:live on the proceeds of...
琐碎的:trivial
一大群:horde
军粮供应:commissariat
骚扰:harry
袭击:assail
小规模战斗:skirmish
史诗:epic
注意到:take note of
苹果机:macintosh
定做:customize
引起,酿成:spawn
菲律宾:Filipino
成群的:in droves