【跟着英剧练发音】Parades End E01 -14

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C- Christopher Tietjens

Mac- MacMaster

 

C: When the war comes, it'll blow right through it, thank God! 

Mac: War is impossible, at any rate with this country in it.

C: Is that what they said at your dinner with the Tories? In two years, round about the time of the grouse-shooting, there'll be a European war, with Britain plumb¹ in the middle of it.

Mac: Ah, the Tietjens exactitude! Where's your evidence²?

C: In the office.

Mac: It's late. We're expected at the Duchemin's breakfast - if you haven't been arrested.

C: I gave the policeman a £5 note from that swine of a Cabinet³ Minister, though I shouldn't call him that, he gave me dinner. Besides which, he's a decent⁴ fellow. So it's hands off the Wannop girl.

1 plumb   

adv.精确地，完全地；v.了解意义，测水深

参考例句：

• No one could plumb the mystery.没人能看破这秘密。
• It was unprofitable to plumb that sort of thing.这种事弄个水落石出没有什么好处。

2 evidence   

n.明显，显著，明白，迹象，根据，[物]证据，证物

参考例句：

• The first signs of spring are in evidence.春天的最初迹象已显然可见。
• From the evidence I must conclude that you are wrong.从证据看，我敢断定你错了。

3 cabinet   

n.内阁，内阁会议；(带玻璃门存物品的)橱柜

参考例句：

• I keep my collection of old china in the cabinet.我把古瓷器收藏品存放在橱子里。
• He had held many important offices in the French cabinet.他在法国内阁中任过许多重要职务。

4 decent   

adj.象样的，不错的，体面的，正派的，恰当的

参考例句：

• We want to raise our children to be decent men and women.我们盼望把孩子们培养成优秀人才。
• There isn't even a decent table in this room.这屋里连张像样的桌子也没有。