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The former BBC manager, Ella Slack, has been unknown 

to anyone except a handful of key advisers², spent the

last quarter of a century acting³ as the Queen’s 

official stand-in at rehearsals⁵ for royal events.

艾拉斯莱克曾经是英国广播公司的一个主管，除了女王身边

的几个资深顾问外，没有人知道她的存在。过去的四分之一

个世纪里，她一直是女王皇室活动彩排的御用替身。

【Vocabulary】

1. former: 之前的

Example: The former Precident was the youngest Precident ever in American history. 

前任总统是美国历史上年龄最小的总统。

2. unknown：不知道的

Example:We have been looking for him for three days, but his location still remains⁶ unknown.

我们已经找了他三天了，但是还是不知道他在哪里。

3. handful of：少数

Example:We invited twenty people, but only a handful of them came.

我们邀请了20 个人，但只来了寥寥数人。

4. adviser¹:顾问，建议者

Example:Young people should ask for opinions from more experienced advisers.

年轻人需要听一听更有经验的顾问们的建议。

5. quarter:四分之一

Example: This company reached sales momentum⁷ in the first quarter of 2009. 

这家公司在2009年第一季度达到了销售顶峰。

6. stand-in：替身

Example:He said he would stand in for me any time.

他说他随时都愿意来代替我。

7. rehearsal⁴：彩排

TExample:he symphony is in rehearsal now.

这支交响乐正在排练中。

1 adviser   

n.劝告者，顾问

参考例句：

• They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
• Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。

2 advisers   

顾问，劝告者( adviser的名词复数 )； （指导大学新生学科问题等的）指导教授

参考例句：

• a member of the President's favoured circle of advisers 总统宠爱的顾问班子中的一员
• She withdrew to confer with her advisers before announcing a decision. 她先去请教顾问然后再宣布决定。

3 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

4 rehearsal   

n.排练，排演；练习

参考例句：

• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。
• You can sharpen your skills with rehearsal.排练可以让技巧更加纯熟。

5 rehearsals   

n.练习( rehearsal的名词复数 )；排练；复述；重复

参考例句：

• The earlier protests had just been dress rehearsals for full-scale revolution. 早期的抗议仅仅是大革命开始前的预演。
• She worked like a demon all through rehearsals. 她每次排演时始终精力过人。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

7 momentum   

n.动力，冲力，势头；动量

参考例句：

• We exploit the energy and momentum conservation laws in this way.我们就是这样利用能量和动量守恒定律的。
• The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。