Perpetual
adj.永久的；不斷的；無期限的；四季開花的

He and his wife would be compelled to live perpetually as second-class citizens.
他和妻子將被迫永遠做二等公民。
I thought her perpetual complaints were going to prove too much for me.
我想我再也受不了她無休無止的抱怨了。

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Tackle (pp. & pt. tackled)
n.用具，裝備；索具；阻擋；阻截隊員
vt.著手處理；[橄欖球]擒住并摔倒（一名對方球員）；給（馬）配上挽具
vi.擒住并摔倒一名對手

The first reason to tackle these problems is to save children's lives...
果斷處理這些問題的首要原因是為了挽救孩子們的生命。
Foley tackled the quarterback.
福利成功攔截了四分衛。
I tackled him about how anyone could live amidst so much poverty.
我坦率地問他，人在如此貧窮的環境中如何還能生存。
He claims Pasolini overtook and tackled him, pushing him into the dirt.
他聲稱帕索利尼追上去打他，把他推倒在爛泥里。

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Fitting
n.試穿，試衣；設備，器材；裝置；裝修
adj.適合的，適宜的；適當的；相稱的
v.使適合（fit的現在分詞）；使合身；與…相符；安裝

He has made fittings for antique cars.
他給老式汽車制作過配件。
A solitary man, it was perhaps fitting that he should have died alone...
他是個離群索居的人，孤獨地死去也許正得其所。
Fittingly, she will spend her year off training her voice to sing blues and jazz.
恰好她要休息一年，用來練唱藍調和爵士樂。
She lunched and shopped and went for fittings for clothes she didn't need.
她吃完午飯后去購物，試穿了一些她并不需要的衣服。

劇情百科

Lady Alicia Smallwood，一個權力與Mycroft平分秋色的人，一個完美無瑕基本無缺陷的女人。最終卻是讓Mr Magnussen知道軟肋而被挾持。在Lady Alicia Smallwood最無助，最想要幫助的時候，她想到了一個也唯一一個可以制服他的人——Sherlock holmes.

考考你 Q&A
Q: Please use the word or phrase you just learnt to complete the sentence beblow.

1.Provincial barriers to trade _____ the efficient allocation of resources.
各省的貿易壁壘阻礙了資源的有效分配。
2.He never reads individual user profiles; he only sees data _____ _____ _____.
他從來不閱讀單個用戶的個人資料；他僅僅整體研究這些數據。

A:本期答案見下期
上期答案：

1.Investors in singapore recently could buy so-called perpetual bonds through automated teller machines.
新加坡投資者最近可以通過自動售貨機購買所謂的永久債券。
2.Many remember with pride his stand against the 2003 american-led invasion of iraq.
許多人自豪地記起他反對2003年美國主導的侵略伊拉克之戰的立場。