Chapter 18

EVEN FRENCH GIRLS GET DISSED "Allo?" Lexie's distinct French- accented English rang out over Nate's intercom. "Mayee I pleeze come up?" Locked in his room all week with a bong, playing Grand Theft Auto¹ San Andreas on his Xbox, Nate hadn't received any visitors except Jeremy, Anthony, and Charlie, who stopped by every now and then to replenish² his stash³ and fill him in on what was going on at school. His wing of the house smelled like half-eaten burritos, spilled bong water, and pizza flavored Pepperridge Farm goldfish- not that there was anyone around to smell it. After grounding him, his parents had taken the Charlotte up the Hudson to visit friends in Kingston and to ensure that Nate didn't steal the boat again before their benefit cruise. If only he hadn't messed things up with Blair, they'd have had the whole house to themselves and could have had sex on top the grand piano in the living room if they'd wanted. Oh, well. "I'm sick," he lied into the intercom. "It's really contagious⁴. I've missed a whole week of school." "It's okay, I'm sick too!" Lexie responded brightly. She coughed to demonstrate just how sick she really was. "We can share our germs!" What fun! Nate had just heisted a Hummer, but when Lexie buzzed he'd gotten distracted and the cops had gone right up his ass⁵. He kicked the Xbox controls across the room and licked his bong-chapped lips. His mouth felt like it was coated with pot-flavored road tar⁶, and he hadn't changed his shirt in how many days. "I smell," he confided⁷ into the speaker. "Seriously, It's bad." "We'll 'av a bath," Lexie told him gaily⁸. "Buzz me in. I'll give you a mah-ssage, bay-bee," she added, sounding even more French than she'd sounded only a moment ago. Nate could tell she wasn't going to give up, and it wasn't like Blair wasn't cheating on him right then too. Besides, Lexie was hot and obviously desperate for it, and he was seriously bored. "Okay," he replied slowly, about to press the buzzer⁹ to let her in. "Oh, I love you!" Lexie cried into the intercom. Nate blinked slowly. Did she say love? He let his hand drop. Girls- all they ever seemed to do was fall in love with him and get him into trouble. Blair, Serena, Jennifer, Georgie, and now this horny, fake-accented, hippie French chick, Lexie. Wait, is this like, another ephiphany? The thing was, he was about to graduate and go off to Yale. He wanted to hang out with the girls he'd grown up with and always known and loved. Not some new chick. Especially not one who didn't even speak the same language. "Look, I'm grounded," he said firmly. "Go home." "Mais non!" Lexie wailed¹⁰, starting to cry. Mais oui. WILL S OWN UP OR CHICKEN OUT? The door to Vanessa and Blair's apartment stood open. Serena stepped inside, her freshly glossed¹¹ mouth agape at how changed it was since Vanessa's birthday party. Only a few weeks ago there had been black sheets hanging in the windows and plaster crumbling¹³ onto the barely furnished floors. Now it was freshly painted and filled with cool modern furniture. Lemongrass-scented candles burned on the coffee table, and cool black-and-white toile curtains billowed from the open windows in the living room. "Whoa," she gasped¹⁵. "I know," Vanessa called over from the open kitchen where she was busy filing little ceramic¹⁶ bowls with Greek olives, baby carrots, and tamari-roasted almonds so their guests would have something to munch¹⁷ on before the pizza arrived. "Can you believe it?" she trust her pale leg into the air and waggled her foot so Serena could see that she'd borrowed Blair's wedge-soled black patent leather Sigerson Morrison Mary Janes. "Like my shoes?" Blair padded barefoot out of the bedroom with an empty tumbler of ice in her hand, looking very Williamsburg in a tight black T-shirt, a short black Seven jeans skirt, and mod silvery pink lipstick¹⁸. She kissed Serena's cheek. "Isn't it great?" she asked. Looking genuinely thrilled. While her cab idled in traffic on the Williamsburg bridge on the ride over, Serena had geared herself up to tell Blair that she'd decided¹⁹ to go to Yale next year. But now that they were face-to-face, she could feel herself chickening out. She dipped her hand into Blair's glass and stole a vodka tonic²⁰-soaked ice cube. "I hope you took before and after pictures." Don't worry." Vanessa stomped²¹ out of the kitchen in Blair's shoes and handed Serena a vodka tonic of her own. "I even got the painters' butt²² cracks." Of course she did. The three girls sat down on Ruby's old futon sofa, which had been refurbished with a new birch frame and a new gray faux-suede cover. "So what happened with Damian?" Blair wanted to know. "I thought we were going to be reading about you guys in the paper tomorrow." Serena rolled the leg of her jeans up to her bony knees. "Well, he's good-looking and everything, but..." she hesitated and rolled her pant leg back down again. Then she took a sip²³ of her drink and quickly changed the subject. "Who else is coming over tonight anyway?" Blair bit her lip. It hadn't really occurred to her that Serena might be the odd one out. "You're not going to like this, but I kind of invited that Stanford Parris kid from the Yale party? And Aaron- you know, my stepbrother? I think he and Vanessa are, like, made for each other." Vanessa took a huge gulp²⁴ of her rum and Coke. "We'll see," she belched²⁵ loudly. Serena's huge dark blue eyes shone as she digested this information. She'd actually been in love with Aaron for a week or two that winter, but enough time had passed now that she could handle hanging out with him on a just-friends basis. And Blair was right- Vanessa and Aaron were perfect for each other. "Cool," she told her friend graciously, even though she thought that Stan 5 guy was a conceited²⁶ jerk. The downstairs buzzer rang and Blair and Vanessa shot out of their seats and bolted to the window overlooking the street. Aaron Rose and Stanford Parris V were standing²⁷ on the sidewalk, each looking dubiously²⁸ up at the second floor apartment. "Oh my God, they're here!" the oddly paired roommates squealed²⁹ in unison³⁰. All of a sudden Serena felt like a chaperone at a junior high sleepover party. She rolled her eyes. "Do you girls want me to get the door so you can fix your hair or something?" she offered jokingly. "Yes, please!" Blair cried. She grabbed Vanessa's arm and dragged her toward the bathroom. Serena chewed on a piece of ice and pressed play on Vanessa's CD player as she waited for the boys to mount the stairs. The Raves³¹ song "Ice Cream" came on and she quickly selected the next disc one of Ruby's weird³² German disco albums. Someone knocked on the door and she hurried over to answer it. Now if they could just avoid the topic of college for the rest of the evening... Not likely. WAY TO ALIENATE³³ YOUR SISTER AND LOSE YOUR JOB Dan would have perfectly³⁴ happy eating sushi with Monique and taking in an old French film down at the artsy movie theater on Twelfth Street. But Monique had insisted that they could slip into Damian's party unnoticed, steal a bottle of champagne³⁵ and a few cigars, and then creep out onto one of the fire escapes and have a party of their own. Bedford Street was exactly the kind of uber-cool, exclusive, West Village neighborhood Dan envisioned himself living in when he became an absurdly famous rock star, and it felt extremely cool to swagger down the street with gorgeous Monique on his arm. She was wearing an ankle-length, completely see-through, white silk sundress and white sandals, and he was wearing his favorite pair of worn-in rust-colored corduroys and a soft black T-shirt. He thought they looked pretty good together. Guess no one told him about the white thing either. The door to Damian's town house was standing open and the scent¹⁴ of shrimp³⁶ pad Thai wafted³⁷ out of it. Before they wanted reached the top of the white marble steps, Dan distinctly heard the voice of his sister, Jenny. And she wasn't talking- she was singing. Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me! Dan let go of Monique's hand and blinked in the bright whiteness. His fingers trembled and his palms began to sweat. Damian's entire place was white, white, white. Even all the other guests at the party were wearing white. Sure, it was cool. He just wished someone had told him. Jenny's voice continued to blare out over the stereo. Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me! "Hey," Dan called unevenly³⁸. He walked over to where Jenny sat on the white sectional sofa, her butt in Lloyd's lap and her calves³⁹ resting on Damian's knees. "What's going on? Dad told me you were spending the weekend up at Elise's country house." Jenny giggles⁴⁰, obviously enthralled⁴¹ with her own craftiness⁴². "Elise is in the country." She giggled⁴³ and leaned back against Lloyd's chest. "But I'm here. Dad's so totally gullible⁴⁴." Dan didn't like the idea of Jenny lying to their dad. Sure, he'd told his share of harmless untruths, but little sisters were supposed to be pure and innocent and true, not lying schemers who sat on older guys' laps, flirting⁴⁵ their heads off while dressed in flimsy, see-through white undershirts and a pair of guy's boxer⁴⁶ shorts. He would have written a poem about how she kind of reminded him of Ophelia, except he was too friggen' pissed off. "With doz breasts, you must get away with murder!" Monique pointed⁴⁷ at Jenny's barely clad boobs. Dan's hands were shaking uncontrollably now. He reached for the pack of Camels in his back pocket and trust one ion his mouth. "I don't even know what you're doing here," he growled⁴⁸ at his sister with the unlit cigarette between his teeth. "This is my band," he added, sounding completely immature⁴⁹. Damian raised his nicely arched strawberry blond eyebrows⁵⁰. "Actually, Jenny is singing for us now." Dan waited for Damian to bust⁵¹ into a fit of giggles and tell him he was joking, but Damian kept a straight face. "Dad's always saying I need a job to support my shopping habit," Jenny gushed⁵², her face shinny with excitement and full of adorable dimples. "And we decided we need a softer sound," Lloyd added, stroking Jenny's curly hair. "Of course, we'll still use your songs. Just with Jennifer's voice. Excusez-moi? Dan lit his cigarette with his neon green plastic Bic and tossed the lighter⁵³ on the white sofa out of sheer rebellion. The way Damian was holding Jenny's bare feet while not wearing a shirt over his well-developed, manly⁵⁴ chest was totally infuriating. Damian eyed Monique warily⁵⁵. "I thought you went back to St. Barts, sweetie." Monique grinned. "Vell, I have been trying to get Dan to o there with me, but he says he has to finish school first." She rolled her eyes. "Boring." "Serena van der Woodsen was here," Jenny told her brother. "But she left. Not that you care." "And she'd prettier than you, Monique," Lloyd added bitchily. He squeezed Jenny around the waist. "But not nearly as cute as you, dumplin'." Dan sucked furiously on his cigarette, trying desperately⁵⁶ not to scream his fucking head off. It would have been nice to see Serena, but he kind of had other things on his mind. "Uh, Damian, could I talk to you for a minute?" he demanded between gritted⁵⁷ teeth. "Ciao, ciao, darling!" Monique called to someone across the room and drifted away from Dan to smother⁵⁸ a bald Moby look-alike in a white linen⁵⁹ tracksuit with her wet, pine nut-scented kisses. Dan waited for Damian to remove his hands from Jenny's feet, stand up, put a shirt on, and talk to him in private, like a man. Yeah. But Damian stayed where he was. "Anything you need to say can be said in front of Lloyd and your big sister. We're all family right?" Big sister? Dan's free hand closed in a sweaty fist. "Jenny's not my big sister," he hissed⁶⁰. "I'm turning eighteen in two weeks. And she'll be fifteen in July." "Thanks a lot!" Jenny complained. Damian and Lloyd's eyes bulged⁶¹ a little ebit, but they didn't say anything. Then Lloyd cracked a grin. "Well at least she's not married." Damian elbowed him in the ribs⁶². "I'll handle this." He pulled a tiny bottle of Stoli out of his back pocket and took a swig. His red-blond hair was shorter than it had been only a week ago, and more stylishly tousled. Maybe that was because he had it cut by Sally Hershberger only yesterday? "Dan," Damian continued. "You sang like shit last Saturday. And you basically threw up on stage. Then you hooked up with my wife." Wife? Dan's stomach dropped. Monique had never said anything about being anyone's wife. He had a sudden urge to take a very long shower. "We're estranged," Damian clarified. Oh, well, that's a relief. "I respect your words, yeah?" Damian told him solemnly. "But I'm just not feeling the love." Dan shifted his gaze to the other party guests- visions of coolness and sophistications, wearing white designer clothes, happily quaffing⁶³ their boiled-egg martinis and munching⁶⁴ on shrimp shu mai and rice noodles, their hair as shiny and Sally Hershberger- groovy as Damian's. Dan wore corduroys from Old Navy and got a haircut at Supercuts once a year. He liked instant coffee and hot dogs bought on the street. He liked coming home in the evenings and laughing at the local news with his dad. His bedroom had linty⁶⁵ maroon⁶⁶ wall-to-wall carpeting that he was actually sort of fond of. He only owned two pairs of shoes. He was never meant to be a rockstar. "Come on, Jenny. Let's go home." He held a grim hand out to his little sister. Jenny glared at him. Was he crazy? The guys in the Raves didn't mind that she was only fourteen. She was definitely staying. "You go home," she challenged. Dan flapped a sweaty hand at her. "We can get a cab. I'll pay." Jenny shrank away from him, her back pressed against Lloyd's chest. "Please don't be an idiot, Dan," she yawned dismissively. "And don't say anything to Dad. I'll deal with him on my own." "Fine." Dan shoved his hands in his pockets. He had a feeling Jenny sort of wanted to get into trouble with their dad, but he wasn't going to tell on her. She was doing fine in the trouble department all on her own. "If you think I'm going to give you any of my poems, though, you can forget about it." Damian raised his eyebrows, Lloyd rolled his eyes, and Jenny kicked at the white sofa with her bare feet- as if they were all bored with Dan's little tirade⁶⁷. Across the room Monique was eating noodles right out of the serving dish with a pair of ivory-lacquered chopsticks. A girl in a white embroidered bolero jacket who looked a like Chloe Sevigny was braiding Monique's long, honey-colored hair while she ate. "Tell you wife I said good-bye," Dan grumbled⁶⁸ at Damian. He hesitated, giving Jenny one last chance to leave with him, but she'd shifted around on Lloyd's lap so her back was to him. "Bye, Dan," she said, sounding like she couldn't wait for him to be gone. Dan shuffled⁶⁹ down the white marble steps and out onto Bedford Street, unsure whether to laugh or to cry. It was kind of a relief knowing he'd never had to sing onstage again. He could go to college, be a normal kid, have a normal girlfriend, and a normal life. Whatever that meant. TRUTH OR DARE Blair remained in the bathroom, preparing for her entrance, leaving Vanessa to hang back near the kitchen like a shy thirteen-year-old while Serena answered the door. Vanessa felt like a total dweeb wearing Blair's super shiny lip gloss¹² and that one pair of black stretch Levis she'd stopped wearing over a year ago because she decided they were too tight. In fact, she felt like a total dweeb, period. Aaron would probably be a complete snob⁷⁰ who thought she was a fat, bald weirdo, just like Blair had always thought before she'd lost her mind and decided to move in with her. "Hey." Aaron stepped into the apartment and kissed Serena on the cheek. "You live here too?" he was wearing an orange hemp⁷¹ wife beater T-shirt, his usual army-issued pants, and black cruelty-free rubber flip-flops. He pinned his dark dreadlocks back with two turquoise⁷² heart-shaped barrettes stolen out of Blair's bathroom, obviously trying to gauge⁷³ Vanessa's vegan-freak tolerance⁷⁴ by looking as vegan-freaky as possible. Serena was relived to discover that she really was over him. "Oh, no. I'm just here to open the door." Stan 5 towered blondly in the hall carrying two large pizza boxes in his arms, looking like a prep-school poster boy in a khaki Hugo Boss suit, a pink Brooks⁷⁵ Brothers shirt, and a Kelly-green-and-pink-striped Turnbull & Aser tie. "The delivery guy was downstairs," he said, looking bewildered. "It sure is different here," he added, making it very clear that he had never been to Brooklyn in his entire life. "Hello again," Serena said. "I guess you two have already met." She took the pizzas and carried them into the kitchen. Stan 5 hovered⁷⁶ near Aaron, his eyes searching the tiny apartment for the girl who'd actually invited him there. Heartened by the sight of Aaron's ridiculous hairstyle, Vanessa ventured forward a few steps. "Hi!" she greeted them, wishing she didn't sound so perky and dumb. "I'm Vanessa." Aaron smiled, and she immediately liked his thin red lips and the way his dark, almost black eyes shone in the candlelight. He walked over and shook her hand. He was skinny, and slightly taller than she was. Five-foot-nine, maybe - the same height as Dan- but Aaron seemed bigger, more athletic⁷⁷. He pointed at her feet. "Hey, those are Blair's shoes aren't they? My dog tried to eat those for breakfast once." "Not that she'd notice. She has about eight hundred pairs," Vanessa observed. They chuckled⁷⁸, grinning a t each other. A regular mutual⁷⁹ admiration⁸⁰ society. Serena was about to go and drag Blair out of the bathroom when Blair re-appeared in a cloud of Carolina Herrera perfume, her eyelashes freshly curled, her hair re-parted, and her face dusted with sparkly, rose-tinted bronzing powder. She was still wearing the same tight black T-shirt, but she'd put on a different bra and her chest looked more like a C now than a B. "Who wants a drink?" she asked, smiling coyly at Stan 5. "I'd love one," Stan 5 replied. He walked over and kissed her on the cheek. He was taller than she remembered, and more formal. But he smelled like Polo for Men, which was one of her favorites. Blair batted her curly-lashed eyes at him. I'm going to seduce⁸¹ you tonight, she told him silently. Serena couldn't stand how weird everyone was being. Besides, it was almost ten o'clock- way past her dinnertime. She flipped⁸² open the lip of one of the pizza boxes. "Mind if we eat now? I'm starving." Vanessa and Aaron each took a vegan slice and a rum and coke and sat down at the table. Blair refreshed her drink and slipped a huge pepperoni slice onto her plate, thinking that she was going to need her energy. Stan 5 took two pepperoni slices- obviously he thought he was going to need his energy too. And Serena took one of each, because she'd always been a big eater. "Why don't we play a game or something?" she suggested once they were around the table. Normally she wouldn't have cared, but right now she would do anything to stop them all from smiling at each other so... moronically⁸³. Blair took a huge bite from her pizza and washed it down with vodka tonic. "Yes!" she agreed, practically screaming. "Truth or Dare!" Serena poked⁸⁴ at her pizza. As long as she stuck with Dares, she'd be fine. Aaron folded his slice of pizza in half and took two enormous bites. Vanessa liked the way his cute little ears moved up and down when he chewed. "I'll start," he volunteered, wiping his mouth on a paper napkin. "Dare." Blair shoved her pizza at him. Big rounds of pepperoni sat on top of the greasy⁸⁵ cheese. "That's easy. I dare you to eat this." Aaron rolled his eyes. "No way. Truth, then." Blair tried to think of a good question to ask him, but Vanessa beat him to it. "Do you believe in love at first sight?" She kept her eyes focused on her pizza, picking the little egreen buds off a piece of broccoli⁸⁶ to keep from blushing with shame for asking such a totally cheesy question. Aaron's leg seemed to edge over so slightly in her direction until the knee of his army pants very lightly grazed her jeans. He picked the rest of his pizza up and then put it down again with out taking a bite. "Hell yes," he declared, his thin red lips spreading wide across his straight white teeth. "I do now." Blair nudged Vanessa's foot underneath⁸⁷ the table and Vanessa's entire heads flushed the color of Constance Billard's maroon wool uniform. "I told you so," Blair mouthed with silent delight. "Now me. Dare." Everyone tried to think of a good one. The thing about dares was they were always something silly. Truths were always far more interesting. Not necessarily. "I dare you to kiss me," Stan 5 said quietly, pushing back his chair to give Blair access. "For five minutes." How totally seventh grade. "Fine." Blair stood up and pushed her dark hair behind her ears. Did he thing she wouldn't kiss him unless he dared her to? Well, she was planning to do a lot more than kiss later on. She perched on his knee and wrapped her arms around his neck. A little blob of pizza had collected in the corner of his mouth, and because she'd drunk just a wee bit too much and eaten her pizza a wee bit too fast, the sight of it made her gag. She closed her eyes and breathed in the scent of Polo for Men. "Someone start timing," she directed. She pressed her lips against his, trying to relax and get into it, but it was hard, especially in front of an audience. Stan 5's lips were salty, unfamiliar⁸⁸, and weirdly⁸⁹ wet. She was about to break away just to catch her breath, when she remembered the time she and Nate were in a kissing contest at a party at Serena's house at the end of seventh grade, They went into Serena's walk-in closet and Serena stood outside and timed then while they made out. They lasted forty-seven minutes, but the truth was, they weren't really kissing the whole time. They were whispering ever so softly with their lips pressed together so it was almost like they were kissing when they were talking, and vice⁹⁰ versa. Which was actually way more romantic. "Time's up," Aaron called. Blair broke away from Stan 5. thinking about Nate while she was kissing him had made his lips taste much better. "I could've lasted longer," she declared, sliding off his lap. She sat down in her chair and polished off her drink. "You're next," she told Stan 5. "Truth or dare." "Truth." Blair tried to think of something juicy to ask him, but she only knew him in the context of Yale,. "If your grandfather wasn't on the board at Yale, would you have gone to another school?" Stan 5 cleared his throat and loosened his preppy pink-and-green-striped tie. His neck was red. "The truth?" he asked. He glanced at Blair and swiped his hand over his face. "I'm not going to Yale," he said quietly. "I didn't get in." Nobody said anything. Blair felt bile rise in her throat. She scooted her chair back and lunged across the room toward the bathroom. Serena smiled her mother's cool, fuck-off-and-die smile ay Stanford Paris V. "I dare you to leave right now," she told him pleasantly. Stan 5 shrugged⁹¹ his shoulders as if he didn't see what the big deal was. "Is she going to be okay?" As if he really cared. "She'll be fine," Serena assured him. "There's a car service place around the corner," Vanessa informed him, too giddy to get what was going on. Stan 5 stood up and straightened his tie. Serena walked him to the door. "Thanks for the pizza," he said lamely⁹² before leaving. Vanessa and Aaron's fingers touched beneath the table. "Truth or dare?" she whispered. "Truth," Aaron responded. "Do you think I should grow my hair?" Aaron leaned over and kissed her quickly on the lips. "No fucking way." Serena went to check on Blair, expecting to find her kneeled in front of the toilet, where she found her countless⁹³ times before. Instead Blair was sprawled⁹⁴ naked in the bathtub, covered in green Vitabath bubble, a wet washcloth folded over her eyes, looking like an overworked drama queen. "I don't know what I was thinking," she moaned, turning her head toward Serena. She was just so mad at Nate, and she wanted to go to Yale so badly, and Stan 5 had made it seem like she didn't have anything to worry about... Serena kicked off her shoes and rolled up her jeans. Then she sat on the edge of the tub and dunked her feet into the water. "I don't know either." She wiggled her pink-polished toes underneath the bubbles, daring herself to tell Blair about going to Yale next year. Blair reached out blindly and plopped a big pouf of bubbles on Serena's cheek. "I dare you to get in with me." Serena giggled and began to unbutton her jeans. They could talk about Yale some other time. Back in the living room, things were getting just as steamy. "Is this what you're supposed to do when you're about to graduate from high school?" Vanessa asked, helping⁹⁵ Aaron remove his flimsy orange shirt. She kissed her way up his neck to those thin red lips she'd loved the moment she'd seen them. "You mean make friends with the bitchiest, most high-maintenance girl in your class and then hook up with her stepbrother?" he responded honestly, then laughed. "I'm not sure." He traced his finger over the stubbly top of Vanessa's shaved head. "I guess at this point we're all trying new things." Guess so!

1 auto   

n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车

参考例句：

• Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
• The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。

2 replenish   

vt.补充；(把…)装满；(再)填满

参考例句：

• I always replenish my food supply before it is depleted.我总是在我的食物吃完之前加以补充。
• We have to import an extra 4 million tons of wheat to replenish our reserves.我们不得不额外进口四百万吨小麦以补充我们的储备。

3 stash   

v.藏或贮存于一秘密处所；n.隐藏处

参考例句：

• Stash away both what you lost and gained,for life continues on.将得失深藏心底吧，为了那未来的生活。
• That's supposed to be in our private stash.这是我的私人珍藏。

4 contagious   

adj.传染性的，有感染力的

参考例句：

• It's a highly contagious infection.这种病极易传染。
• He's got a contagious laugh.他的笑富有感染力。

5 ass   

n.驴；傻瓜，蠢笨的人

参考例句：

• He is not an ass as they make him.他不象大家猜想的那样笨。
• An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden.驴能负重但不能超过它能力所负担的。

6 tar   

n.柏油，焦油；vt.涂或浇柏油/焦油于

参考例句：

• The roof was covered with tar.屋顶涂抹了一层沥青。
• We use tar to make roads.我们用沥青铺路。

7 confided   

v.吐露（秘密，心事等）( confide的过去式和过去分词 )；（向某人）吐露（隐私、秘密等）

参考例句：

• She confided all her secrets to her best friend. 她向她最要好的朋友倾吐了自己所有的秘密。
• He confided to me that he had spent five years in prison. 他私下向我透露，他蹲过五年监狱。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 gaily   

adv.欢乐地，高兴地

参考例句：

• The children sing gaily.孩子们欢唱着。
• She waved goodbye very gaily.她欢快地挥手告别。

9 buzzer   

n.蜂鸣器；汽笛

参考例句：

• The buzzer went off at eight o'clock.蜂鸣器在8点钟时响了。
• Press the buzzer when you want to talk.你想讲话的时候就按蜂鸣器。

10 wailed   

v.哭叫，哀号( wail的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• She wailed over her father's remains. 她对着父亲的遗体嚎啕大哭。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The women of the town wailed over the war victims. 城里的妇女为战争的死难者们痛哭。 来自辞典例句

11 glossed   

v.注解( gloss的过去式和过去分词 )；掩饰（错误）；粉饰；把…搪塞过去

参考例句：

• The manager glossed over the team's recent defeat. 经理对这个队最近的失败闪烁其词。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He glossed over his selfishness with a display of generosity. 他以慷慨大方的假象掩饰他的自私。 来自互联网

12 gloss   

n.光泽，光滑；虚饰；注释；vt.加光泽于；掩饰

参考例句：

• John tried in vain to gloss over his faults.约翰极力想掩饰自己的缺点，但是没有用。
• She rubbed up the silver plates to a high gloss.她把银盘擦得很亮。

13 crumbling   

adj.摇摇欲坠的

参考例句：

• an old house with crumbling plaster and a leaking roof 一所灰泥剥落、屋顶漏水的老房子
• The boat was tied up alongside a crumbling limestone jetty. 这条船停泊在一个摇摇欲坠的石灰岩码头边。

14 scent   

n.气味，香味，香水，线索，嗅觉；v.嗅，发觉

参考例句：

• The air was filled with the scent of lilac.空气中弥漫着丁香花的芬芳。
• The flowers give off a heady scent at night.这些花晚上散发出醉人的芳香。

15 gasped   

v.喘气( gasp的过去式和过去分词 )；喘息；倒抽气；很想要

参考例句：

• She gasped at the wonderful view. 如此美景使她惊讶得屏住了呼吸。
• People gasped with admiration at the superb skill of the gymnasts. 体操运动员的高超技艺令人赞叹。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

16 ceramic   

n.制陶业，陶器，陶瓷工艺

参考例句：

• The order for ceramic tiles has been booked in.瓷砖的订单已登记下来了。
• Some ceramic works of art are shown in this exhibition.这次展览会上展出了一些陶瓷艺术品。

17 munch   

v.用力嚼，大声咀嚼

参考例句：

• We watched her munch through two packets of peanuts.我们看她津津有味地嚼了两包花生米。
• Getting them to munch on vegetable dishes was more difficult.使他们吃素菜就比较困难了。

18 lipstick   

n.口红，唇膏

参考例句：

• Taking out her lipstick,she began to paint her lips.她拿出口红，开始往嘴唇上抹。
• Lipstick and hair conditioner are cosmetics.口红和护发素都是化妆品。

19 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

20 tonic   

n./adj.滋补品，补药，强身的，健体的

参考例句：

• It will be marketed as a tonic for the elderly.这将作为老年人滋补品在市场上销售。
• Sea air is Nature's best tonic for mind and body.海上的空气是大自然赋予的对人们身心的最佳补品。

21 stomped   

v.跺脚，践踏，重踏( stomp的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• She stomped angrily out of the office. 她怒气冲冲，重步走出办公室。
• She slammed the door and stomped (off) out of the house. 她砰的一声关上了门，暮暮地走出了屋了。 来自辞典例句

22 butt   

n.笑柄；烟蒂；枪托；臀部；v.用头撞或顶

参考例句：

• The water butt catches the overflow from this pipe.大水桶盛接管子里流出的东西。
• He was the butt of their jokes.他是他们的笑柄。

23 sip   

v.小口地喝，抿，呷；n.一小口的量

参考例句：

• She took a sip of the cocktail.她啜饮一口鸡尾酒。
• Elizabeth took a sip of the hot coffee.伊丽莎白呷了一口热咖啡。

24 gulp   

vt.吞咽，大口地吸（气）；vi.哽住；n.吞咽

参考例句：

• She took down the tablets in one gulp.她把那些药片一口吞了下去。
• Don't gulp your food,chew it before you swallow it.吃东西不要狼吞虎咽，要嚼碎了再咽下去。

25 belched   

v.打嗝( belch的过去式和过去分词 )；喷出，吐出；打（嗝）；嗳（气）

参考例句：

• He wiped his hand across his mouth, then belched loudly. 他用手抹了抹嘴，然后打了个响亮的饱嗝。
• Artillery growled and belched on the horizon. 大炮轰鸣在地平面上猛烈地爆炸。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

26 conceited   

adj.自负的，骄傲自满的

参考例句：

• He could not bear that they should be so conceited.他们这样自高自大他受不了。
• I'm not as conceited as so many people seem to think.我不像很多人认为的那么自负。

27 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

28 dubiously   

adv.可疑地，怀疑地

参考例句：

• "What does he have to do?" queried Chin dubiously. “他有什么心事？”琴向觉民问道，她的脸上现出疑惑不解的神情。 来自汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）
• He walked out fast, leaving the head waiter staring dubiously at the flimsy blue paper. 他很快地走出去，撇下侍者头儿半信半疑地瞪着这张薄薄的蓝纸。 来自辞典例句

29 squealed   

v.长声尖叫，用长而尖锐的声音说( squeal的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He squealed the words out. 他吼叫着说出那些话。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The brakes of the car squealed. 汽车的刹车发出吱吱声。 来自《简明英汉词典》

30 unison   

n.步调一致，行动一致

参考例句：

• The governments acted in unison to combat terrorism.这些国家的政府一致行动对付恐怖主义。
• My feelings are in unison with yours.我的感情与你的感情是一致的。

31 raves   

n.狂欢晚会( rave的名词复数 )v.胡言乱语( rave的第三人称单数 )；愤怒地说；咆哮；痴心地说

参考例句：

• She raves about that singer. 她醉心地谈论那位歌手。 来自辞典例句
• His new play received raves in the paper. 他的新剧本在报纸上受到赞扬。 来自辞典例句

32 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

33 alienate   

vt.使疏远，离间；转让(财产等)

参考例句：

• His attempts to alienate the two friends failed because they had complete faith.他离间那两个朋友的企图失败了，因为他们彼此完全信任。
• We'd better not alienate ourselves from the colleagues.我们最好还是不要与同事们疏远。

34 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

35 champagne   

n.香槟酒；微黄色

参考例句：

• There were two glasses of champagne on the tray.托盘里有两杯香槟酒。
• They sat there swilling champagne.他们坐在那里大喝香槟酒。

36 shrimp   

n.虾，小虾；矮小的人

参考例句：

• When the shrimp farm is built it will block the stream.一旦养虾场建起来，将会截断这条河流。
• When it comes to seafood,I like shrimp the best.说到海鲜，我最喜欢虾。

37 wafted   

v.吹送，飘送，（使）浮动( waft的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The sound of their voices wafted across the lake. 他们的声音飘过湖面传到了另一边。
• A delicious smell of freshly baked bread wafted across the garden. 花园中飘过一股刚出炉面包的香味。 来自《简明英汉词典》

38 unevenly   

adv.不均匀的

参考例句：

• Fuel resources are very unevenly distributed. 燃料资源分布很不均匀。
• The cloth is dyed unevenly. 布染花了。

39 calves   

n.(calf的复数)笨拙的男子，腓；腿肚子( calf的名词复数 )；牛犊；腓；小腿肚v.生小牛( calve的第三人称单数 )；（冰川）崩解；生（小牛等），产（犊）；使（冰川）崩解

参考例句：

• a cow suckling her calves 给小牛吃奶的母牛
• The calves are grazed intensively during their first season. 小牛在生长的第一季里集中喂养。 来自《简明英汉词典》

40 giggles   

n.咯咯的笑( giggle的名词复数 )；傻笑；玩笑；the giggles 止不住的格格笑v.咯咯地笑( giggle的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Her nervous giggles annoyed me. 她神经质的傻笑把我惹火了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I had to rush to the loo to avoid an attack of hysterical giggles. 我不得不冲向卫生间，以免遭到别人的疯狂嘲笑。 来自辞典例句

41 enthralled   

迷住，吸引住( enthrall的过去式和过去分词 )； 使感到非常愉快

参考例句：

• The child watched, enthralled by the bright moving images. 这孩子看着那明亮的移动的影像，被迷住了。
• The children listened enthralled as the storyteller unfolded her tale. 讲故事的人一步步展开故事情节，孩子们都听得入迷了。

42 craftiness   

狡猾，狡诈

参考例句：

• Indeed, craftiness in humans was a supreme trait. 事实上，手工艺(craftiness)也是人类最重要的一个特性了。
• Experience teaches men craftiness. After all, you only live once! 经验使人知道怎样应当油滑一些，因为命只有一条啊！ 来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子

43 giggled   

v.咯咯地笑( giggle的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The girls giggled at the joke. 女孩子们让这笑话逗得咯咯笑。
• The children giggled hysterically. 孩子们歇斯底里地傻笑。 来自《简明英汉词典》

44 gullible   

adj.易受骗的；轻信的

参考例句：

• The swindlers had roped into a number of gullible persons.骗子们已使一些轻信的人上了当。
• The advertisement is aimed at gullible young women worried about their weight.这则广告专门针对担心自己肥胖而易受骗的年轻女士。

45 flirting   

v.调情，打情骂俏( flirt的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Don't take her too seriously; she's only flirting with you. 别把她太当真，她只不过是在和你调情罢了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• 'she's always flirting with that new fellow Tseng!" “她还同新来厂里那个姓曾的吊膀子！ 来自子夜部分

46 boxer   

n.制箱者，拳击手

参考例句：

• The boxer gave his opponent a punch on the nose.这个拳击手朝他对手的鼻子上猛击一拳。
• He moved lightly on his toes like a boxer.他像拳击手一样踮着脚轻盈移动。

47 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

48 growled   

v.（动物）发狺狺声， （雷）作隆隆声( growl的过去式和过去分词 )；低声咆哮着说

参考例句：

• \"They ought to be birched, \" growled the old man. 老人咆哮道：“他们应受到鞭打。” 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He growled out an answer. 他低声威胁着回答。 来自《简明英汉词典》

49 immature   

adj.未成熟的，发育未全的，未充分发展的

参考例句：

• Tony seemed very shallow and immature.托尼看起来好像很肤浅，不夠成熟。
• The birds were in immature plumage.这些鸟儿羽翅未全。

50 eyebrows   

眉毛( eyebrow的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Eyebrows stop sweat from coming down into the eyes. 眉毛挡住汗水使其不能流进眼睛。
• His eyebrows project noticeably. 他的眉毛特别突出。

51 bust   

vt.打破；vi.爆裂；n.半身像；胸部

参考例句：

• I dropped my camera on the pavement and bust it. 我把照相机掉在人行道上摔坏了。
• She has worked up a lump of clay into a bust.她把一块黏土精心制作成一个半身像。

52 gushed   

v.喷，涌( gush的过去式和过去分词 )；滔滔不绝地说话

参考例句：

• Oil gushed from the well. 石油从井口喷了出来。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Clear water gushed into the irrigational channel. 清澈的水涌进了灌溉渠道。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

53 lighter   

n.打火机，点火器；驳船；v.用驳船运送；light的比较级

参考例句：

• The portrait was touched up so as to make it lighter.这张画经过润色，色调明朗了一些。
• The lighter works off the car battery.引燃器利用汽车蓄电池打火。

54 manly   

adj.有男子气概的；adv.男子般地，果断地

参考例句：

• The boy walked with a confident manly stride.这男孩以自信的男人步伐行走。
• He set himself manly tasks and expected others to follow his example.他给自己定下了男子汉的任务，并希望别人效之。

55 warily   

adv.留心地

参考例句：

• He looked warily around him,pretending to look after Carrie.他小心地看了一下四周，假装是在照顾嘉莉。
• They were heading warily to a point in the enemy line.他们正小心翼翼地向着敌人封锁线的某一处前进。

56 desperately   

adv.极度渴望地，绝望地，孤注一掷地

参考例句：

• He was desperately seeking a way to see her again.他正拼命想办法再见她一面。
• He longed desperately to be back at home.他非常渴望回家。

57 gritted   

v.以沙砾覆盖（某物），撒沙砾于( grit的过去式和过去分词 )；咬紧牙关

参考例句：

• He gritted his teeth and plunged into the cold weather. 他咬咬牙，冲向寒冷的天气。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• The young policeman gritted his teeth and walked slowly towards the armed criminal. 年轻警官强忍住怒火，朝武装歹徒慢慢走过去。 来自《简明英汉词典》

58 smother   

vt./vi.使窒息；抑制；闷死；n.浓烟；窒息

参考例句：

• They tried to smother the flames with a damp blanket.他们试图用一条湿毯子去灭火。
• We tried to smother our laughter.我们强忍住笑。

59 linen   

n.亚麻布，亚麻线，亚麻制品；adj.亚麻布制的，亚麻的

参考例句：

• The worker is starching the linen.这名工人正在给亚麻布上浆。
• Fine linen and cotton fabrics were known as well as wool.精细的亚麻织品和棉织品像羊毛一样闻名遐迩。

60 hissed   

发嘶嘶声( hiss的过去式和过去分词 )； 发嘘声表示反对

参考例句：

• Have you ever been hissed at in the middle of a speech? 你在演讲中有没有被嘘过？
• The iron hissed as it pressed the wet cloth. 熨斗压在湿布上时发出了嘶嘶声。

61 bulged   

凸出( bulge的过去式和过去分词 )； 充满； 塞满（某物）

参考例句：

• His pockets bulged with apples and candy. 他的口袋鼓鼓地装满了苹果和糖。
• The oranges bulged his pocket. 桔子使得他的衣袋胀得鼓鼓的。

62 ribs   

n.肋骨( rib的名词复数 )；（船或屋顶等的）肋拱；肋骨状的东西；（织物的）凸条花纹

参考例句：

• He suffered cracked ribs and bruising. 他断了肋骨还有挫伤。
• Make a small incision below the ribs. 在肋骨下方切开一个小口。

63 quaffing   

v.痛饮( quaff的现在分词 )；畅饮；大口大口将…喝干；一饮而尽

参考例句：

• He is quaffing his beer by the pint. 他论品脱地大喝啤酒。 来自互联网
• Its easy-quaffing quality makes it an aperitif wine. 此酒极易入口，所以一刻作为开胃酒单独饮用。 来自互联网

64 munching   

v.用力咀嚼（某物），大嚼( munch的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• He was munching an apple. 他在津津有味地嚼着苹果。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Munching the apple as he was, he had an eye for all her movements. 他虽然啃着苹果，但却很留神地监视着她的每一个动作。 来自辞典例句

65 linty   

adj.有棉毛的，有棉絮的

参考例句：

• This blue suit gets linty much too quickly. 这套蓝西装很快就起毛。 来自互联网

66 maroon   

v.困住，使（人）处于孤独无助之境；n.逃亡黑奴；孤立的人；酱紫色，褐红色；adj.酱紫色的，褐红色的

参考例句：

• Five couples were marooned in their caravans when the River Avon broke its banks.埃文河决堤的时候，有5对夫妇被困在了他们的房车里。
• Robinson Crusoe has been marooned on a desert island for 26 years.鲁滨逊在荒岛上被困了26年。

67 tirade   

n.冗长的攻击性演说

参考例句：

• Her tirade provoked a counterblast from her husband.她的长篇大论激起了她丈夫的强烈反对。
• He delivered a long tirade against the government.他发表了反政府的长篇演说。

68 grumbled   

抱怨( grumble的过去式和过去分词 )； 发牢骚； 咕哝； 发哼声

参考例句：

• He grumbled at the low pay offered to him. 他抱怨给他的工资低。
• The heat was sweltering, and the men grumbled fiercely over their work. 天热得让人发昏，水手们边干活边发着牢骚。

69 shuffled   

v.洗（纸牌）( shuffle的过去式和过去分词 )；拖着脚步走；粗心地做；摆脱尘世的烦恼

参考例句：

• He shuffled across the room to the window. 他拖着脚走到房间那头的窗户跟前。
• Simon shuffled awkwardly towards them. 西蒙笨拙地拖着脚朝他们走去。 来自《简明英汉词典》

70 snob   

n.势利小人，自以为高雅、有学问的人

参考例句：

• Going to a private school had made her a snob.上私立学校后，她变得很势利。
• If you think that way, you are a snob already.如果你那样想的话，你已经是势利小人了。

71 hemp   

n.大麻；纤维

参考例句：

• The early Chinese built suspension bridges of hemp rope.古代的中国人建造过麻绳悬索桥。
• The blanket was woven from hemp and embroidered with wool.毯子是由亚麻编织，羊毛镶边的。

72 turquoise   

n.绿宝石；adj.蓝绿色的

参考例句：

• She wore a string of turquoise round her neck.她脖子上戴着一串绿宝石。
• The women have elaborate necklaces of turquoise.那些女人戴着由绿松石制成的精美项链。

73 gauge   

v.精确计量；估计；n.标准度量；计量器

参考例句：

• Can you gauge what her reaction is likely to be?你能揣测她的反应可能是什么吗？
• It's difficult to gauge one's character.要判断一个人的品格是很困难的。

74 tolerance   

n.宽容；容忍，忍受；耐药力；公差

参考例句：

• Tolerance is one of his strengths.宽容是他的一个优点。
• Human beings have limited tolerance of noise.人类对噪音的忍耐力有限。

75 brooks   

n.小溪( brook的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Brooks gave the business when Haas caught him with his watch. 哈斯抓到偷他的手表的布鲁克斯时，狠狠地揍了他一顿。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Ade and Brooks exchanged blows yesterday and they were severely punished today. 艾德和布鲁克斯昨天打起来了，今天他们受到严厉的惩罚。 来自《简明英汉词典》

76 hovered   

鸟( hover的过去式和过去分词 )； 靠近（某事物）； （人）徘徊； 犹豫

参考例句：

• A hawk hovered over the hill. 一只鹰在小山的上空翱翔。
• A hawk hovered in the blue sky. 一只老鹰在蓝色的天空中翱翔。

77 athletic   

adj.擅长运动的，强健的；活跃的，体格健壮的

参考例句：

• This area has been marked off for athletic practice.这块地方被划出来供体育训练之用。
• He is an athletic star.他是一个运动明星。

78 chuckled   

轻声地笑( chuckle的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• She chuckled at the memory. 想起这件事她就暗自发笑。
• She chuckled softly to herself as she remembered his astonished look. 想起他那惊讶的表情，她就轻轻地暗自发笑。

79 mutual   

adj.相互的，彼此的；共同的，共有的

参考例句：

• We must pull together for mutual interest.我们必须为相互的利益而通力合作。
• Mutual interests tied us together.相互的利害关系把我们联系在一起。

80 admiration   

n.钦佩，赞美，羡慕

参考例句：

• He was lost in admiration of the beauty of the scene.他对风景之美赞不绝口。
• We have a great admiration for the gold medalists.我们对金牌获得者极为敬佩。

81 seduce   

vt.勾引，诱奸，诱惑，引诱

参考例句：

• She has set out to seduce Stephen.她已经开始勾引斯蒂芬了。
• Clever advertising would seduce more people into smoking.巧妙策划的广告会引诱更多的人吸烟。

82 flipped   

轻弹( flip的过去式和过去分词 )； 按（开关）； 快速翻转； 急挥

参考例句：

• The plane flipped and crashed. 飞机猛地翻转，撞毁了。
• The carter flipped at the horse with his whip. 赶大车的人扬鞭朝着马轻轻地抽打。

83 moronically   

鲁钝

参考例句：

84 poked   

v.伸出( poke的过去式和过去分词 )；戳出；拨弄；与（某人）性交

参考例句：

• She poked him in the ribs with her elbow. 她用胳膊肘顶他的肋部。
• His elbow poked out through his torn shirt sleeve. 他的胳膊从衬衫的破袖子中露了出来。 来自《简明英汉词典》

85 greasy   

adj. 多脂的，油脂的

参考例句：

• He bought a heavy-duty cleanser to clean his greasy oven.昨天他买了强力清洁剂来清洗油污的炉子。
• You loathe the smell of greasy food when you are seasick.当你晕船时，你会厌恶油腻的气味。

86 broccoli   

n.绿菜花，花椰菜

参考例句：

• She grew all the broccoli plants from seed.这些花椰菜都是她用种子培育出来的。
• They think broccoli is only green and cauliflower is only white.他们认为西兰花只有绿色的，而菜花都是白色的。

87 underneath   

adj.在...下面，在...底下；adv.在下面

参考例句：

• Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
• She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣，里面套着一条连衣裙。

88 unfamiliar   

adj.陌生的，不熟悉的

参考例句：

• I am unfamiliar with the place and the people here.我在这儿人地生疏。
• The man seemed unfamiliar to me.这人很面生。

89 weirdly   

古怪地

参考例句：

• Another special characteristic of Kweilin is its weirdly-shaped mountain grottoes. 桂林的另一特点是其形态怪异的岩洞。
• The country was weirdly transformed. 地势古怪地变了样。

90 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

91 shrugged   

vt.耸肩（shrug的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• Sam shrugged and said nothing. 萨姆耸耸肩膀，什么也没说。
• She shrugged, feigning nonchalance. 她耸耸肩，装出一副无所谓的样子。 来自《简明英汉词典》

92 lamely   

一瘸一拐地，不完全地

参考例句：

• I replied lamely that I hope to justify his confidence. 我漫不经心地回答说，我希望我能不辜负他对我的信任。
• The wolf leaped lamely back, losing its footing and falling in its weakness. 那只狼一跛一跛地跳回去，它因为身体虚弱，一失足摔了一跤。

93 countless   

adj.无数的，多得不计其数的

参考例句：

• In the war countless innocent people lost their lives.在这场战争中无数无辜的人丧失了性命。
• I've told you countless times.我已经告诉你无数遍了。

94 sprawled   

v.伸开四肢坐[躺]( sprawl的过去式和过去分词)；蔓延；杂乱无序地拓展；四肢伸展坐着（或躺着）

参考例句：

• He was sprawled full-length across the bed. 他手脚摊开横躺在床上。
• He was lying sprawled in an armchair, watching TV. 他四肢伸开正懒散地靠在扶手椅上看电视。

95 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。