【詞匯講解】
1.catastrophically adj. 悲慘的,災難的
如:A decisive or catastrophic conflict.
決定性的或大規模的戰爭
2.scenario n. 情節梗概,劇本
如:For the rest of the day the port presented a scenario of furious productivity, guaranteed to warm the cockles of the dock boss's heart.
那天其余的時間里,碼頭掀起了戲劇化的生產高潮,保證讓船塢老板心滿意足。
It looked ominously like we were about to repeat the earlier scenario.
而且看上去很不妙,好象我們又得重復上次那一幕了。
3.whiff n. 一吹,一陣香氣,香煙的一口
如:A whiff of ether will put you out in a few seconds.
一劑乙醚幾秒鐘后就會使你失去知覺。
The interview went better than I thought it would. Sometimes I thought I caught a whiff of hostility in her answers but she behaved very reasonably on the whole.
面談進行得比我原來想象的要好。有時我意識到她答語中有敵意,但總的看來,她舉止極為得體。
I caught a whiff of perfume as she swept past me.
她從我身邊走過時,我聞到一股香水味。
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