The Clocks - Agatha Christie

7 flashcards · English · by jie xu

1. The way they let mental cases out of nursing homes nowadays, urging them to lead a normal life, was in her view fraught with danger to all sorts of innocent people.

   充满的

2. Ernie Curtin wriggled in ecstasy, opened his mouth to say “Coo,” thought it unwise to draw attention to his presence, and shut it again.

   扭动身体

3. There were large fleshy-looking begonias, and there was a fine display of garden ornaments—frogs, toadstools, comic gnomes and pixies.

   秋海棠；毒菌

4. Having studiously followed the numbers from 1 to 35, Wilbraham Crescent then appeared to end.

   刻意地

5. Rather melancholy speckled laurels, imperfectly trimmed, also interfered with the efforts of anyone to enter through the gate.

   布满斑点的

6. Why all this rigmarole?

   冗长的废话

7. First it’ll be the juvenile court and then you’ll be sent to a remand home as likely as not.

   青少年犯拘留所