新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第11课
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：新概念英语85年上外美音版
Lesson 11 Spies in Britain英国的间谍
Alfred the Great acted as his own spy, visiting Danish camps disguised as a minstrel. In those days wandering minstrels were welcome everywhere. They were not fighting men, and their harp 1 was their passport. Alfred had learned many of their ballads 2 in his youth, and could vary his programme with acrobatic tricks and simple conjuring 3.
While Alfred's little army slowly began to gather at Athelney, the king himself set out to penetrate 4 the camp of Guthrum, the commander of the Danish invaders 5. These had settled down for the winter at Chippenham: thither 6 Alfred went. He noticed at once that discipline was slack: the Danes had the selfconfidence of conquerors 7, and their security precautions were casual.
They lived well, on the proceeds of raids on neighbouring regions. There they collected women as well as food and drink, and a life of ease had made them soft.
Alfred stayed in the camp a week before he returned to Athelney. The force there assembled was trivial compared with the Danish horde 8. But Alfred had deduced that the Danes were no longer fit for prolonged battle : and that their commissariat had no organization, but depended on irregular raids.
So, faced with the Danish advance, Alfred did not risk open battle but harried 9 the enemy. He was constantly on the move, drawing the Danes after him. His patrols halted the raiding parties: hunger assailed 10 the Danish army. Now Alfred began a long series of skirmishes--and within a month the Danes had surrendered. The episode could reasonably serve as a unique epic 11 of royal espionage 12!
- She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
- He played an Irish melody on the harp.他用竖琴演奏了一首爱尔兰曲调。
- She belted out ballads and hillbilly songs one after another all evening. 她整晚一个接一个地大唱民谣和乡村小调。
- She taught him to read and even to sing two or three little ballads,accompanying him on her old piano. 她教他读书，还教他唱两三首民谣，弹着她的旧钢琴为他伴奏。
- Paul's very good at conjuring. 保罗很会变戏法。
- The entertainer didn't fool us with his conjuring. 那个艺人变的戏法没有骗到我们。
- Western ideas penetrate slowly through the East.西方观念逐渐传入东方。
- The sunshine could not penetrate where the trees were thickest.阳光不能透入树木最浓密的地方。
- They prepared to repel the invaders. 他们准备赶走侵略军。
- The family has traced its ancestry to the Norman invaders. 这个家族将自己的世系追溯到诺曼征服者。
- He wandered hither and thither looking for a playmate.他逛来逛去找玩伴。
- He tramped hither and thither.他到处流浪。
- The Danes had selfconfidence of conquerors, and their security precautions were casual. 这些丹麦人具有征服者的自信，而且他们的安全防卫也是漫不经心的。
- The conquerors believed in crushing the defeated people into submission, knowing that they could not win their loyalty by the victory. 征服者们知道他们的胜利并不能赢得失败者的忠心，于是就认为只有通过武力才能将他们压服。
- A horde of children ran over the office building.一大群孩子在办公大楼里到处奔跑。
- Two women were quarrelling on the street,surrounded by horde of people.有两个妇人在街上争吵，被一大群人围住了。
- She has been harried by the press all week. 整个星期她都受到新闻界的不断烦扰。
- The soldiers harried the enemy out of the country. 士兵们不断作骚扰性的攻击直至把敌人赶出国境为止。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He was assailed with fierce blows to the head. 他的头遭到猛烈殴打。
- He has been assailed by bad breaks all these years. 这些年来他接二连三地倒霉。 来自《用法词典》