dingy adj. 暗黑的,邋遢的 snarl v. 咆哮着说,怒骂 squalid adj. 下流的,卑鄙的 pansy n. 女性化的男子 sadist n. 虐待狂者 asylum n. 避难所 fob off (用借口)把对付掉 drone n. nutcase n. 疯子 lambast v. 严责 难句突破: He asked for political asylum and knew that he would greatly improve his chances of getting it if he could make himself interesting to the intelligence services. [主体句式] He asked forand knew that [结构分析] 这是一个并列句,后面分句结构较复杂。在该分句的宾语从句是一个带有条件状语从句的句子。 [句子译文] 他申请了政治庇护,而且他明白如果让情报机构对自己感兴趣的话,那么就可以增加申请成功的几率。 Information taken from his testimony cropped up in the National Intelligence Estimate of October 2002 ; in George Bushs state-of-the-union message in January 2003 ; and in Colin Powells presentation to the UN the following month . [主体句式] Information cropped up inin and in [结构分析] 这是一个简单句,状语是由三个并列的介词短语组成的;每个介词短语后面括号中是对前面名词的修饰;最后一个介词短语括号中,based on过去分词短语是用来修饰前面的images。 |