时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:胡敏托福词汇记单词


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  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.



n.合同,条约,公约,协定
  • 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。
adj.可口的,美味的;惬意的
  • 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。
adj.令人沮丧的,沉闷的,单调乏味的
  • 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。
adv.部分地,从某些方面讲
  • 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。
adj.极其仔细的,一丝不苟的
  • 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。
adj.苍白的,呆板的
  • 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。
adj.不同的,变异的;n.变体,异体
  • 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。
adj.苏联的,苏维埃的;n.苏维埃
  • 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。
adj.苦干的;艰苦的,费力的,刻苦的
  • 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。
adj.与世隔绝的
  • 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。
n.麻痹(症);瘫痪(症)
  • The paralysis affects his right leg and he can only walk with difficulty.他右腿瘫痪步履维艰。
  • The paralysis affects his right leg and he can only walk with difficulty.他右腿瘫痪步履维艰。
学英语单词
abumbrellar
acute pericarditis
aksing
Avonothyris
bartell
Bol'shoy V'yas
borboresthes cruralis
bound edge
brain-children
Bunyuka
carpenters cape chisel
centre of oscillation
citizenised
contamination seal
creuse (la creuse riviere)
cushionings
denumerable sample space
depensatory
detheocratization
Digul River
double dislocation
duck-squeezer
ecological dominace
electronic navigational equipment
epigalanthamine
evaporation model
faunae
Fermi spectrum
fish shoal
fixates
Fort Rixon
fringeth
giant granite
Gone Coon
governors
gptt
hard steels
high-peak current
hyperthermocouple
income tax deduction
ironism
jakos
joint elbow
light-pumped solid state laser
macrodome
Mafinga
maize picker-husker
make bed
marined
mechanical abrasion
mercuro-iodo-formaline
microbitcoin
moment of momentum
morongo
multiple-births
nonlinear phase conjugation
not me
Nuclear Engineering Society
ofuro
okoyongs
on the level
open-air temperature of ships
operating company
peak load rated output of gas turbine
Penguin Books
percent intelligibilty
porcupine fish
powder-metallurgy
printed chart size
psych someone out
radius of lead curve
resurgent cauldron
retrobulbar hemorrhage
ripken
self-cleaning twin-screw reactor
separately-excited phase advancer
Shigella dispar
signal demodulation
signet
Sir Paul Gavrilovich Vinogradoff
Sophora pachycarpa
splanchnopathy
steering gear control differential
sterep
strong interest inventory (sii)
suburothelial
suction valve push rod
The Last Opportunity Rule
thelonious
toastahs
traas
treated stone
trophaeum
TV program
ugly milk-caps
unitary call
upstarts
us college
van vehicle
vortex resistance
whambulance
zinc resinate