胡敏读故事记单词托福词汇165
时间：2018-12-30 作者：英语课 分类：胡敏托福词汇记单词
Escape Routes
While the Warsaw Pact 1 was at full strength, life in Eastern Europe was less than palatable 2 for much of the population. At that time,Western planes would often drop pamphlets describing a life of luxury on the other side.It was easy for people to draw parallels with their own dreary 3 existence and, no wonder, many thought of ingenious ways to escape.
In the early days, when the borders were still partially 4 open, a common method was to put some extra panels inside a truck, panelling off a small area for people to hide in. Many went into panic during the meticulous 5 searches by the border police and wet their pants with fear. Some were caught.Other emerged pallid 6 - a whiter shade of pale--on the other side. A variant 7 of this technique was for people to be added to packages of items such as paintings, to be sent across the border as bits of rail freight.
Some people went out and bought themselves kayaks, becoming midnight paddlers across the icy Elbe river. A few daring souls early on even managed to get across Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, dashing across the line, parallel to the marching Soviet 8 soldiers on parade.
Yet others went through the painstaking 9 process of stitching together metres upon metres of silk to make their own parachutes for gliding 10 down from one of the mountains in an isolated 11 part of the border region.
Many of this attempts paralleled the escapes of British prisoners of war from German camps during World War ∏. And just like those days, not all escape attempts were successful. Quite a number of those who tried to escape ended up in paralysis 12, some of them paralyzed for life.
- The two opposition parties made an electoral pact.那两个反对党订了一个有关选举的协定。
- The trade pact between those two countries came to an end.那两国的通商协定宣告结束。
- The truth is not always very palatable.事实真相并非尽如人意。
- This wine is palatable and not very expensive.这种酒味道不错，价钱也不算贵。
- They live such dreary lives.他们的生活如此乏味。
- She was tired of hearing the same dreary tale of drunkenness and violence.她听够了那些关于酗酒和暴力的乏味故事。
- The door was partially concealed by the drapes.门有一部分被门帘遮住了。
- The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.警方设法恢复了平静，宵禁部分解除。
- We'll have to handle the matter with meticulous care.这事一点不能含糊。
- She is meticulous in her presentation of facts.她介绍事实十分详细。
- The moon drifted from behind the clouds and exposed the pallid face.月亮从云朵后面钻出来，照着尸体那张苍白的脸。
- His dry pallid face often looked gaunt.他那张干瘪苍白的脸常常显得憔悴。
- We give professional suggestions according to variant tanning stages for each customer.我们针对每位顾客不同的日晒阶段，提供强度适合的晒黑建议。
- In a variant of this approach,the tests are data- driven.这个方法的一个变种，是数据驱动的测试。
- Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
- Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
- She is not very clever but she is painstaking.她并不很聪明，但肯下苦功夫。
- Through years of our painstaking efforts,we have at last achieved what we have today.大家经过多少年的努力，才取得今天的成绩。
- His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
- Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。