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英语课
Sue: In Private lives today we meet Richard Harvey. Richard is 37 years old, and he was born and brought up in Birmingham - a large city in the middle of England. Richard is a publican（收税员，酒馆老板） - he owns and runs a pub. A pub is a building where people can buy drinks, especially alcoholic 1 drinks like beer, and then sit or stand to talk to friends. In Britain today, the pub is the most popular place of entertainment outside the home. And during the programme, we visit Richard’s pub, and hear about the customers who socialise there. Richard explains which are the most popular drinks served in pubs today, and the kinds of entertainment that his pub offers. Richard also talks about what he thinks it takes to be a good publican, and he introduces us to his girlfriend. But first, Richard recalls his earliest memories of spending an evening in a pub-like environment. When he was a boy, the whole family would go to the local Working Men’s Club where women and child were welcome on a Friday evening.
Clip Richard Harvey
My father was a member of our local club - in a small area called Bartley Green in Birmingham
-called the Bartley Green Working Men’s Club. And my father spent most of his life there! So myself, my brother, and my sister, as children we’d sort of（有几分的） traipse （漫步）down the road with mum and dad on a Friday night and spend the evening in the local social club, which was a very sort of pleasant evening really - we used to stuff ourselves with crisps（炸土豆片） and orange squash（桔子水）, and my recollection （回忆，回想）of coming home at 11 o’clock, was that I’d got smoke in my eyes, felt very tired and I’d got a very orange tongue!
Sue: Richard spent many years of his adult life working as a salesman and then a manager for a brewery（啤酒厂） - a company which makes beer. A couple of years ago, he decided 2 to set up on his own. Together with a friend, Martyn Jones, he created a company which will own and run a small number of pubs. All the pubs will have the same name, the same interior decoration（内部装饰）, and the same range of services for customers. Richard introduces us to his new company.
Clip Richard Harvey
I called it the Distinctive 3 Pub Company Ltd and the reason why it’s called the Distinctive Pub Company is because the pubs will actually be very distinctive（有特色的，出众的）. What makes them distinctive is firstly the name, which is Ducks Don’t Float - yes, that is Ducks Don’t Float - and the interior and all the sort of services that the pubs offer.
Sue: Richard and Martyn have recently opened their first Ducks Don’t Float. The pub is situated 4 in the old market place of a small town called Evesham. Evesham is not far from Birmingham, where Richard and Martyn grew up, and it’s surrounded by beautiful countryside. In the summer months, Evesham is very popular with tourists, who come by car, coach（长途汽车） and caravan 5.（有棚顶的大车） Ducks Don’t Float catches a lot of what Richard calls “the passing tourist trade”, and of course, it’s frequented by “locals” - the local people - some of whom live in Evesham but commute 6 to work in Birmingham. The first things you notice when you walk in to Richard’s pub are the unusual layout（布局，安排，设计） and the brightly painted walls! Most pubs are decorated to look rather like a cosy（舒适的） living room in someone’s house, but Ducks Don’t Float looks more like a large, open-plan cafe or bar, with bright red and yellow walls. And unlike traditional pubs, Ducks Don’t Float offers a wide range of organised entertainment - such as “giant games nights”, where customers play giant versions of family board games. Richard also organises “disco nights”, when a local DJ will get everyone dancing to classic hit records, and, because there are a large number of bedrooms above the pub, Ducks Don’t Float offers “B and B”.
Clip Richard Harvey
Whether you’re a tourist or a local, there’s various things on offer at Ducks Don’t Float. First of all, if you’re looking for accommodation（住处，膳宿）, there’s bed and breakfast. We also offer live music, and particularly Irish music, and I do actually sing and play guitar myself so I often get up and sing a few songs to entertain the crowd. We also have DJs and we also have a Quiz night which is very successful.
Sue: Richard explains that last night, he organised a party in the pub to celebrate Martyn’s 40th birthday. It was a memorable 7 evening, with all the customers socialising together and singing traditional drinking songs. Richard led the singing and played the guitar. He says that he’s “a bit of a showman（马戏团老板，玩杂耍的）”, and this is one of the qualifications a good publican needs. And he reaches for his guitar to give us a song.
Clip Richard Harvey
Well, this is a traditional Irish folksong really called The Wild Rover, and as the words describe it’s about a young man that travels off around the world, drinking and doing other favourable(有用的，良好的，赞成的) pastimes! It’s called The Wild Rover.
I’ve been a wild rover（漂泊者，流浪者） for many a yearand I’ve spent all my money on whiskey and beer!But now I’m returning with gold in great storeand I never will play the wild rover no more!And it’s no, nay 8, never, no, nay, never no more, will I play the wild rover, no never, no more!
You certainly have to like people - you couldn’t come into this business unless you actually enjoyed being with people, talking to people. It helps if you’re a little bit of a showman, and whether you can turn that on or off, it makes a difference really - if you’re naturally like that then that’s fine, or if you have the ability to act out the role -it does help if you have this sort of showmanship element in your personality.
Sue: Richard is very aware that running a pub is running a business, and it demands discipline. It also demands diplomacy 9, because if customers have had a “few too many” drinks, they can become depressed 10 or aggressive. But perhaps most importantly of all, a publican has to be able to talk to different kinds of people. Richard discusses pop music with his younger customers, and swaps（交换） local news and gossip（闲聊，说闲话） with their parents and grandparents!
Clip Richard Harvey
In a typical sort of evening, you may be talking to a group of youngsters and all they’re interested in is what the Spice Girls have done today - and although I don’t know much about the Spice Girls, you know, I have to make it my business to know who they are and therefore hold a conversation with the youngsters. And then you have to move from those sort of people to, you know, the middle-aged 11 sort of locals that are in. All they want to talk about really is the gossip - what’s gong on in the town. With it being a small town, you know, everybody seems to know everybody, and everybody knows everybody’s business. So the ability to hold a range of conversations with, you know, various types of people does help.
Sue: Pubs are often described as the heart of local communities in Britain. And pubs still have a unique status（地位，身份，情形） in British culture as places where people of different ages, and to a lesser 12 extent, different classes are likely to socialise. Children are not usually allowed in pubs, and you have to be over 18 years old to buy an alcoholic drink in a pub. However, the under-30s go to pubs more than any other age group in Britain today, and many pubs, including Ducks Don’t Float, aim to attract young people. One way of doing this is by selling alcopops（波普饮料）. These are soft drinks with a relatively 13 high alcohol content, such as the alcoholic lemonade, Hooch（烈酒）. But the traditional pub drink is beer - drunk out of a pint 14 glass.
Clip Richard Harvey
The last five years have seen an absolute explosion of different types of British brands and also imports of an awful lot of foreign brands. The one that's sort of taken the whole country by storm really is Budweiser which is from America - that's the biggest one. That's very quickly followed by Becks which is from Germany and numerous other sort of Czechoslovakian/Spanish/French beers that have all flooded the British market and the uniqueness （唯一性）of these really is the fact that they’re drank out the bottle!
Sue: Most pubs serve food, but usually only at lunchtime. Food is served at Ducks Don't Float until 7 o'clock in the evening. On the menu, there’s a meal called a Ploughman’s. This is a very popular pub meal consisting of bread, cheese, pickles（泡菜） and salad. Richard says that, whatever the time of day, customers expect a pub to be a friendly place where they can feel relaxed.
Clip Richard Harvey
The important word as far as pubs are concerned is atmosphere. Pubs are all about atmosphere. If you could buy it in a package, and put it into your pub, then you’d be a multi-millionaire! What we try to do at Ducks Don’t Float is create a different atmosphere for different sessions throughout the day. Of a lunchtime it’s dominated by food and therefore the music is very relaxed, it’s easy going, it’s quite quiet. And then as the day moves on and the food dies off and we come into the early evening - the lights go down, the music changes to sort of more modern, disco-y, uptempo（快速）, upbeat type stuff. So as the lights go down, the music goes up, and we go into the night time period, which is more sort of loud and fun-loving, and that’s how the atmosphere changes throughout the day.
Sue: And what does Richard do on a night off? Clip Richard Harvey
A night off? The simple answer is I don’t get one! No - I am able to afford the odd day off now and again. The way I relax personally is by holidays. I love holidays and that’s a big way for me to relax. I like the theatre, I like the cinema, I like drinking wine, and I like eating nice food. So if I get the change to relax, if I can combine all those four or five things, being on holiday, going to the theatre, having a meal before with a bottle of wine - then that’s about the perfect evening!
Sue: Richard lives in several rooms above the pub, with his girlfriend. She sometimes
works behind the bar in Ducks Don’t Float, serving drinks and chatting to
customers.
Clip Richard Harvey
My girlfriend’s name is Joanne. We’ve been together for about 2 years and she lives with me in the pub. I actually met her in a night club which is unusual for me really because I don’t normally meet people in nightclubs, but there you go. Jo works full time herself for a recruitment agency, and she actually is very supportive in the pub as well. When Martin and I first opened the pub she was an absolute brick, and as I say, she works in the pub - she thoroughly 15 enjoys bar work anyway - and so she’s great fun to not only live with but work with as well.
Sue: Running a pub is hard work, and Richard is always thinking of new ways to attract and entertain customers. He says that pubs have changed a lot over the years - for example, they’re far more woman-friendly now. When he was a boy, women were not really welcome in traditional pubs. To end the programme, Richard looks into his future.
Clip Richard Harvey
Two to three years down the road I anticipate that there will be approximately（大约） 6 Ducks Don’t Float, all operating in the same manner, all operating with the same services, the emphasis on fun and entertainment. And then we will keep the 6 going as long as Martin’s and myself’s energy keeps going. Once that starts to wane(衰弱，亏缺), then I think it’s probably time to sell up, and Martyn’ll probably go and live in Tenerife, and I’ll go round the world singing songs no doubt!
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1
alcoholic
adj.（含）酒精的，由酒精引起的；n.酗酒者
参考例句：
The alcoholic strength of brandy far exceeds that of wine.白兰地的酒精浓度远远超过葡萄酒。
Alcoholic drinks act as a poison to a child.酒精饮料对小孩犹如毒药。
2
decided
adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的
参考例句：
This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
3
distinctive
adj.特别的，有特色的，与众不同的
参考例句：
She has a very distinctive way of walking.她走路的样子与别人很不相同。
This bird has several distinctive features.这个鸟具有几种突出的特征。
4
situated
adj.坐落在...的，处于某种境地的
参考例句：
The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。
She is awkwardly situated.她的处境困难。
5
caravan
n.大蓬车；活动房屋
参考例句：
The community adviser gave us a caravan to live in.社区顾问给了我们一间活动住房栖身。
Geoff connected the caravan to the car.杰弗把旅行用的住屋拖车挂在汽车上。
6
commute
vi.乘车上下班；vt.减(刑)；折合；n.上下班交通
参考例句：
I spend much less time on my commute to work now.我现在工作的往返时间要节省好多。
Most office workers commute from the suburbs.很多公司的职员都是从郊外来上班的。
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memorable
adj.值得回忆的，难忘的，特别的，显著的
参考例句：
This was indeed the most memorable day of my life.这的确是我一生中最值得怀念的日子。
The veteran soldier has fought many memorable battles.这个老兵参加过许多难忘的战斗。
8
nay
adv.不；n.反对票，投反对票者
参考例句：
He was grateful for and proud of his son's remarkable,nay,unique performance.他为儿子出色的，不，应该是独一无二的表演心怀感激和骄傲。
Long essays,nay,whole books have been written on this.许多长篇大论的文章，不，应该说是整部整部的书都是关于这件事的。
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diplomacy
n.外交；外交手腕，交际手腕
参考例句：
The talks have now gone into a stage of quiet diplomacy.会谈现在已经进入了“温和外交”阶段。
This was done through the skill in diplomacy. 这是通过外交手腕才做到的。
10
depressed
adj.沮丧的，抑郁的，不景气的，萧条的
参考例句：
When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。
11
middle-aged
adj.中年的
参考例句：
I noticed two middle-aged passengers.我注意到两个中年乘客。
The new skin balm was welcome by middle-aged women.这种新护肤香膏受到了中年妇女的欢迎。
12
lesser
adj.次要的，较小的；adv.较小地，较少地
参考例句：
Kept some of the lesser players out.不让那些次要的球员参加联赛。
She has also been affected,but to a lesser degree.她也受到波及，但程度较轻。
13
relatively
adv.比较...地，相对地
参考例句：
The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。
14
pint
n.品脱
参考例句：
I'll have a pint of beer and a packet of crisps, please.我要一品脱啤酒和一袋炸马铃薯片。
In the old days you could get a pint of beer for a shilling.从前，花一先令就可以买到一品脱啤酒。
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thoroughly
adv.完全地，彻底地，十足地
参考例句：
The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。
Clip Richard Harvey
My father was a member of our local club - in a small area called Bartley Green in Birmingham
-called the Bartley Green Working Men’s Club. And my father spent most of his life there! So myself, my brother, and my sister, as children we’d sort of（有几分的） traipse （漫步）down the road with mum and dad on a Friday night and spend the evening in the local social club, which was a very sort of pleasant evening really - we used to stuff ourselves with crisps（炸土豆片） and orange squash（桔子水）, and my recollection （回忆，回想）of coming home at 11 o’clock, was that I’d got smoke in my eyes, felt very tired and I’d got a very orange tongue!
Sue: Richard spent many years of his adult life working as a salesman and then a manager for a brewery（啤酒厂） - a company which makes beer. A couple of years ago, he decided 2 to set up on his own. Together with a friend, Martyn Jones, he created a company which will own and run a small number of pubs. All the pubs will have the same name, the same interior decoration（内部装饰）, and the same range of services for customers. Richard introduces us to his new company.
Clip Richard Harvey
I called it the Distinctive 3 Pub Company Ltd and the reason why it’s called the Distinctive Pub Company is because the pubs will actually be very distinctive（有特色的，出众的）. What makes them distinctive is firstly the name, which is Ducks Don’t Float - yes, that is Ducks Don’t Float - and the interior and all the sort of services that the pubs offer.
Sue: Richard and Martyn have recently opened their first Ducks Don’t Float. The pub is situated 4 in the old market place of a small town called Evesham. Evesham is not far from Birmingham, where Richard and Martyn grew up, and it’s surrounded by beautiful countryside. In the summer months, Evesham is very popular with tourists, who come by car, coach（长途汽车） and caravan 5.（有棚顶的大车） Ducks Don’t Float catches a lot of what Richard calls “the passing tourist trade”, and of course, it’s frequented by “locals” - the local people - some of whom live in Evesham but commute 6 to work in Birmingham. The first things you notice when you walk in to Richard’s pub are the unusual layout（布局，安排，设计） and the brightly painted walls! Most pubs are decorated to look rather like a cosy（舒适的） living room in someone’s house, but Ducks Don’t Float looks more like a large, open-plan cafe or bar, with bright red and yellow walls. And unlike traditional pubs, Ducks Don’t Float offers a wide range of organised entertainment - such as “giant games nights”, where customers play giant versions of family board games. Richard also organises “disco nights”, when a local DJ will get everyone dancing to classic hit records, and, because there are a large number of bedrooms above the pub, Ducks Don’t Float offers “B and B”.
Clip Richard Harvey
Whether you’re a tourist or a local, there’s various things on offer at Ducks Don’t Float. First of all, if you’re looking for accommodation（住处，膳宿）, there’s bed and breakfast. We also offer live music, and particularly Irish music, and I do actually sing and play guitar myself so I often get up and sing a few songs to entertain the crowd. We also have DJs and we also have a Quiz night which is very successful.
Sue: Richard explains that last night, he organised a party in the pub to celebrate Martyn’s 40th birthday. It was a memorable 7 evening, with all the customers socialising together and singing traditional drinking songs. Richard led the singing and played the guitar. He says that he’s “a bit of a showman（马戏团老板，玩杂耍的）”, and this is one of the qualifications a good publican needs. And he reaches for his guitar to give us a song.
Clip Richard Harvey
Well, this is a traditional Irish folksong really called The Wild Rover, and as the words describe it’s about a young man that travels off around the world, drinking and doing other favourable(有用的，良好的，赞成的) pastimes! It’s called The Wild Rover.
I’ve been a wild rover（漂泊者，流浪者） for many a yearand I’ve spent all my money on whiskey and beer!But now I’m returning with gold in great storeand I never will play the wild rover no more!And it’s no, nay 8, never, no, nay, never no more, will I play the wild rover, no never, no more!
You certainly have to like people - you couldn’t come into this business unless you actually enjoyed being with people, talking to people. It helps if you’re a little bit of a showman, and whether you can turn that on or off, it makes a difference really - if you’re naturally like that then that’s fine, or if you have the ability to act out the role -it does help if you have this sort of showmanship element in your personality.
Sue: Richard is very aware that running a pub is running a business, and it demands discipline. It also demands diplomacy 9, because if customers have had a “few too many” drinks, they can become depressed 10 or aggressive. But perhaps most importantly of all, a publican has to be able to talk to different kinds of people. Richard discusses pop music with his younger customers, and swaps（交换） local news and gossip（闲聊，说闲话） with their parents and grandparents!
Clip Richard Harvey
In a typical sort of evening, you may be talking to a group of youngsters and all they’re interested in is what the Spice Girls have done today - and although I don’t know much about the Spice Girls, you know, I have to make it my business to know who they are and therefore hold a conversation with the youngsters. And then you have to move from those sort of people to, you know, the middle-aged 11 sort of locals that are in. All they want to talk about really is the gossip - what’s gong on in the town. With it being a small town, you know, everybody seems to know everybody, and everybody knows everybody’s business. So the ability to hold a range of conversations with, you know, various types of people does help.
Sue: Pubs are often described as the heart of local communities in Britain. And pubs still have a unique status（地位，身份，情形） in British culture as places where people of different ages, and to a lesser 12 extent, different classes are likely to socialise. Children are not usually allowed in pubs, and you have to be over 18 years old to buy an alcoholic drink in a pub. However, the under-30s go to pubs more than any other age group in Britain today, and many pubs, including Ducks Don’t Float, aim to attract young people. One way of doing this is by selling alcopops（波普饮料）. These are soft drinks with a relatively 13 high alcohol content, such as the alcoholic lemonade, Hooch（烈酒）. But the traditional pub drink is beer - drunk out of a pint 14 glass.
Clip Richard Harvey
The last five years have seen an absolute explosion of different types of British brands and also imports of an awful lot of foreign brands. The one that's sort of taken the whole country by storm really is Budweiser which is from America - that's the biggest one. That's very quickly followed by Becks which is from Germany and numerous other sort of Czechoslovakian/Spanish/French beers that have all flooded the British market and the uniqueness （唯一性）of these really is the fact that they’re drank out the bottle!
Sue: Most pubs serve food, but usually only at lunchtime. Food is served at Ducks Don't Float until 7 o'clock in the evening. On the menu, there’s a meal called a Ploughman’s. This is a very popular pub meal consisting of bread, cheese, pickles（泡菜） and salad. Richard says that, whatever the time of day, customers expect a pub to be a friendly place where they can feel relaxed.
Clip Richard Harvey
The important word as far as pubs are concerned is atmosphere. Pubs are all about atmosphere. If you could buy it in a package, and put it into your pub, then you’d be a multi-millionaire! What we try to do at Ducks Don’t Float is create a different atmosphere for different sessions throughout the day. Of a lunchtime it’s dominated by food and therefore the music is very relaxed, it’s easy going, it’s quite quiet. And then as the day moves on and the food dies off and we come into the early evening - the lights go down, the music changes to sort of more modern, disco-y, uptempo（快速）, upbeat type stuff. So as the lights go down, the music goes up, and we go into the night time period, which is more sort of loud and fun-loving, and that’s how the atmosphere changes throughout the day.
Sue: And what does Richard do on a night off? Clip Richard Harvey
A night off? The simple answer is I don’t get one! No - I am able to afford the odd day off now and again. The way I relax personally is by holidays. I love holidays and that’s a big way for me to relax. I like the theatre, I like the cinema, I like drinking wine, and I like eating nice food. So if I get the change to relax, if I can combine all those four or five things, being on holiday, going to the theatre, having a meal before with a bottle of wine - then that’s about the perfect evening!
Sue: Richard lives in several rooms above the pub, with his girlfriend. She sometimes
works behind the bar in Ducks Don’t Float, serving drinks and chatting to
customers.
Clip Richard Harvey
My girlfriend’s name is Joanne. We’ve been together for about 2 years and she lives with me in the pub. I actually met her in a night club which is unusual for me really because I don’t normally meet people in nightclubs, but there you go. Jo works full time herself for a recruitment agency, and she actually is very supportive in the pub as well. When Martin and I first opened the pub she was an absolute brick, and as I say, she works in the pub - she thoroughly 15 enjoys bar work anyway - and so she’s great fun to not only live with but work with as well.
Sue: Running a pub is hard work, and Richard is always thinking of new ways to attract and entertain customers. He says that pubs have changed a lot over the years - for example, they’re far more woman-friendly now. When he was a boy, women were not really welcome in traditional pubs. To end the programme, Richard looks into his future.
Clip Richard Harvey
Two to three years down the road I anticipate that there will be approximately（大约） 6 Ducks Don’t Float, all operating in the same manner, all operating with the same services, the emphasis on fun and entertainment. And then we will keep the 6 going as long as Martin’s and myself’s energy keeps going. Once that starts to wane(衰弱，亏缺), then I think it’s probably time to sell up, and Martyn’ll probably go and live in Tenerife, and I’ll go round the world singing songs no doubt!
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alcoholic
adj.（含）酒精的，由酒精引起的；n.酗酒者
参考例句：
The alcoholic strength of brandy far exceeds that of wine.白兰地的酒精浓度远远超过葡萄酒。
Alcoholic drinks act as a poison to a child.酒精饮料对小孩犹如毒药。
2
decided
adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的
参考例句：
This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
3
distinctive
adj.特别的，有特色的，与众不同的
参考例句：
She has a very distinctive way of walking.她走路的样子与别人很不相同。
This bird has several distinctive features.这个鸟具有几种突出的特征。
4
situated
adj.坐落在...的，处于某种境地的
参考例句：
The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。
She is awkwardly situated.她的处境困难。
5
caravan
n.大蓬车；活动房屋
参考例句：
The community adviser gave us a caravan to live in.社区顾问给了我们一间活动住房栖身。
Geoff connected the caravan to the car.杰弗把旅行用的住屋拖车挂在汽车上。
6
commute
vi.乘车上下班；vt.减(刑)；折合；n.上下班交通
参考例句：
I spend much less time on my commute to work now.我现在工作的往返时间要节省好多。
Most office workers commute from the suburbs.很多公司的职员都是从郊外来上班的。
7
memorable
adj.值得回忆的，难忘的，特别的，显著的
参考例句：
This was indeed the most memorable day of my life.这的确是我一生中最值得怀念的日子。
The veteran soldier has fought many memorable battles.这个老兵参加过许多难忘的战斗。
8
nay
adv.不；n.反对票，投反对票者
参考例句：
He was grateful for and proud of his son's remarkable,nay,unique performance.他为儿子出色的，不，应该是独一无二的表演心怀感激和骄傲。
Long essays,nay,whole books have been written on this.许多长篇大论的文章，不，应该说是整部整部的书都是关于这件事的。
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diplomacy
n.外交；外交手腕，交际手腕
参考例句：
The talks have now gone into a stage of quiet diplomacy.会谈现在已经进入了“温和外交”阶段。
This was done through the skill in diplomacy. 这是通过外交手腕才做到的。
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depressed
adj.沮丧的，抑郁的，不景气的，萧条的
参考例句：
When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。
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middle-aged
adj.中年的
参考例句：
I noticed two middle-aged passengers.我注意到两个中年乘客。
The new skin balm was welcome by middle-aged women.这种新护肤香膏受到了中年妇女的欢迎。
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lesser
adj.次要的，较小的；adv.较小地，较少地
参考例句：
Kept some of the lesser players out.不让那些次要的球员参加联赛。
She has also been affected,but to a lesser degree.她也受到波及，但程度较轻。
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relatively
adv.比较...地，相对地
参考例句：
The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。
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pint
n.品脱
参考例句：
I'll have a pint of beer and a packet of crisps, please.我要一品脱啤酒和一袋炸马铃薯片。
In the old days you could get a pint of beer for a shilling.从前，花一先令就可以买到一品脱啤酒。
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thoroughly
adv.完全地，彻底地，十足地
参考例句：
The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。
adj.（含）酒精的，由酒精引起的；n.酗酒者
- The alcoholic strength of brandy far exceeds that of wine.白兰地的酒精浓度远远超过葡萄酒。
- Alcoholic drinks act as a poison to a child.酒精饮料对小孩犹如毒药。
adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
adj.特别的，有特色的，与众不同的
- She has a very distinctive way of walking.她走路的样子与别人很不相同。
- This bird has several distinctive features.这个鸟具有几种突出的特征。
adj.坐落在...的，处于某种境地的
- The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。
- She is awkwardly situated.她的处境困难。
n.大蓬车；活动房屋
- The community adviser gave us a caravan to live in.社区顾问给了我们一间活动住房栖身。
- Geoff connected the caravan to the car.杰弗把旅行用的住屋拖车挂在汽车上。
vi.乘车上下班；vt.减(刑)；折合；n.上下班交通
- I spend much less time on my commute to work now.我现在工作的往返时间要节省好多。
- Most office workers commute from the suburbs.很多公司的职员都是从郊外来上班的。
adj.值得回忆的，难忘的，特别的，显著的
- This was indeed the most memorable day of my life.这的确是我一生中最值得怀念的日子。
- The veteran soldier has fought many memorable battles.这个老兵参加过许多难忘的战斗。
adv.不；n.反对票，投反对票者
- He was grateful for and proud of his son's remarkable,nay,unique performance.他为儿子出色的，不，应该是独一无二的表演心怀感激和骄傲。
- Long essays,nay,whole books have been written on this.许多长篇大论的文章，不，应该说是整部整部的书都是关于这件事的。
n.外交；外交手腕，交际手腕
- The talks have now gone into a stage of quiet diplomacy.会谈现在已经进入了“温和外交”阶段。
- This was done through the skill in diplomacy. 这是通过外交手腕才做到的。
adj.沮丧的，抑郁的，不景气的，萧条的
- When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
- His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。
adj.中年的
- I noticed two middle-aged passengers.我注意到两个中年乘客。
- The new skin balm was welcome by middle-aged women.这种新护肤香膏受到了中年妇女的欢迎。
adj.次要的，较小的；adv.较小地，较少地
- Kept some of the lesser players out.不让那些次要的球员参加联赛。
- She has also been affected,but to a lesser degree.她也受到波及，但程度较轻。
adv.比较...地，相对地
- The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
- The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。
n.品脱
- I'll have a pint of beer and a packet of crisps, please.我要一品脱啤酒和一袋炸马铃薯片。
- In the old days you could get a pint of beer for a shilling.从前，花一先令就可以买到一品脱啤酒。
adv.完全地，彻底地，十足地
- The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
- The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。