Chapter 74

“Screw that!” Evenwrite shouted. “We been waiting, like I said, for too damn long as it is! Oh me, Draeger, don’t you understand? What I been saying about this rain? We can’t wait much longer or there won’t be no work no way goddammit, can’t you see?” Evenwrite’s face looked as though he might explode in tears of rage and frustration¹. He’d never had to deal with a man like this! What is it, Mr. Draeger? In all the years of woodsbulling drunk riggers and lazy bushlers and government scalers who cheated you blind and owners who wanted done yesterday what was humanly impossible to have done tomorrow—What is it you have over poor stupid Floyd, Mr. Draeger?—in all them years foremanning all them sonsabitches, never one of them as unreasonable³ as this! What is it you know? Or leastways never one of them who frustered him so. “I mean can’t you see?” Maybe it was the surroundings; hadn’t he always managed dealing⁴ with sonsabitches out in the brush? Draeger took a small swallow from the water glass and set it down. “I understand the weather problem, Floyd; I’m sorry if I implied doing absolutely nothing; I know you have your back against the wall so to speak ...but when I said wait, I meant only to hold off taking any action that would only make Mr. Stamper more obstinate⁵.” “Hold off till when? Till spring? Summer?” “Until we find some way to make clear to him just how his stand is harming his friends.” He had taken a ball-point pen from his pocket and was studying the tip of it. “Hank Stamper don’t have any friends,” Evenwrite muttered; then, trying to resume his old woods-bossing manner, demanded scornfully, “You mean you don’t even have some kind of plan for straightening this out?” “Not exactly a plan,” Draeger answered. “Not yet, anyway.” “Nothing but wait, huh? Is that it? Just wait?” Draeger was doodling on the placemat, absorbed in his thoughts: “For the time being, yes,” he said. “Well, what do you know about that. Like we couldn’t wait ourselfs, without any help from a college graduate making ten thousand a year of our goddam money . . . what do you think of that?” When Draeger gave no indication that he had heard, Evenwrite went on. “Anyhow, if it’s all the same to you, I think me and the boys will get our horsewhip and tend to making this horse turn around and go our direction, while you’re waiting.” Draeger looked up from his doodling. “Pardon me?” “I said me and the guys are gonna go ahead and handle this thing. Plain and simple. With our plain old dumb-ass head-on approach.” “That being?” “Why, a picket⁶ to start with. Like we shoulda done the first thing . . .” “You can’t legally—” “Legal be damned!” Evenwrite interrupted, momentarily losing his cool. “You think Hank Stamper’s gonna call the cops in on us? Or that any of ’em would come if he did? Huh?” He felt his frustration mounting again, but this time he closed his eyes and drew a deep breath to try to stop his outbreak of anger; there wasn’t no sense letting the sonofabitch know he was getting under his hide. “So we’ll just . . . all right start off tomorrow...with a picket.” No sense acting⁷ like a goddam heathen...he’d show them that Floyd Evenwrite could by god be poised⁸ and passionless too, in any sonofabitching surrounding! “Then we will see what we will see.” Draeger watched him for a moment, smiling his sad smile, then shook his head. “I suppose there’s nothing I can say to—” “To make me hold off any longer? No.” He shook his head in turn, calm and self-contained as they come. “I suppose there ain’t.” Yessir, as self-possessed as the best of them . . . except, for a little itch² troubling his throat, a cold picked up on that goddam cold-ass boatride, most likely. Hell! “Do you think,” Draeger wanted to know, “that you will be doing anything more than mollifying your natural punitive⁹ desires?” Evenwrite cleared his throat. “I think by god—” and had started to let the sonofabitch know—in a completely self-contained and self-possessed fashion—just by god exactly what he thought, before he recalled that he could never remember for certain whether “punitive” meant weak and sick-looking or strong and sharp-smelling. “I think that”—and what in the living hell was “mollify”?—“that uh under the circumstances . . .” Still, he kept his cool; he didn’t panic. He closed his eyes and drew a deep breath and launched a sigh that would reveal to all concerned how simply overcome he was with disgust for this whole conversation ...but halfway¹⁰ through this sigh he was stricken by that old familiar tickle¹¹ deep in his throat: oh no! Not here; not now! He couldn’t sneeze now, just as he was getting such a good grip on the situation! He clenched¹² his teeth. He clamped his lips tight. His face swelled¹³ out red and desperate from his wet collar, like a prewar inner tube bulging¹⁴ out through a split in the casing just before it burst ...not now! Because he hated to sneeze indoors. Ever since childhood Evenwrite had been afflicted¹⁵ with a sneeze of such magnitude that it could have turned every head for blocks in his direction by virtue¹⁶ of volume alone, but more than that—above and beyond their acoustical¹⁷ power—his sneezes distinguished¹⁸ themselves by carrying a message as well, always the same message, forceful and invariable: as though he had stopped whatever he’d been doing and shouted—at the top of his lungs—haw... haw...hot shit! In the woods this resounding¹⁹ declaration had been a cause for kidding and fun, and even a bit of unconfessed pride. In the woods. But somehow it didn’t go over as well in other areas. In church, or at a meeting, when he felt a sneeze coming on, he was always torn between letting it—hoping those present would either miss the message or excuse it—and bottling it back in his mouth. Each method had its drawbacks, to be sure. That was to be expected. But this time he suffered the drawbacks of both: while he managed to stifle²⁰ the first half, the “hot” half, behind his bulging lips, the second half, the “shit” half, exploded forth²¹ clearly and resonantly²² in a cloud of saliva²³ that settled like a mist over the whole table. Teddy, on his way back to the bar, paused to see how Draeger would handle this situation. The man looked quizzically across at Evenwrite, then returned his pen to his pocket and picked up a cocktail²⁴ napkin to carefully wipe a place on his coat sleeve. “Of course,” Draeger went on amiably²⁵, “every man to his own opinion, Floyd”—as though nothing whatsoever²⁶ had happened. Teddy nodded, impressed, and continued on around the end of the bar—What is it he has learned to put him so far out past the others?—and Evenwrite, wiping a watering eye with the knuckle²⁷ of his thumb, wished he was out of there and home goddammit, where his clothes didn’t bind²⁸ him so and a man could sneeze without worrying about it. “And look here, Floyd.” Draeger put down the cocktail napkin and gave Floyd a neat, reassuring²⁹ nod. “I hope you understand that I sincerely want you and ‘the guys’ to succeed with your head-on approach. Because, confidentially³⁰, there is nothing I would like better than to tie up this business here and get back down south; you see,” he confided³¹ in a whisper of mock-intimacy, “I get athlete’s foot up here. But, ah, in as I have already paid a week’s rent on my hotel room, and in the event your approach does not prove completely successful, I believe I’ll stay around. . . . Is this fine with you?” Evenwrite nodded. “Fine with me,” he answered flatly, making no attempt to regain³² his state of grim determination. The abortive³³ sneeze seemed to have drained all Evenwrite’s spirit. His eyes were watering, and he felt a cold building for certain now, far down in his lungs like a gathering³⁴ volcano; he just wanted to get home to a hot tub and a bit of Vicks VapoRub in the water. That was all he wanted. He didn’t want to fuss no more tonight. ...“Yeah, that’s fine, Draeger. An’, like you say, if our approach don’t work, well then, we’ll just come over an’ ask you for some of your help.” ...But just wait by god till tomorrow when he got his zip back; then he’d show the bastards³⁵! Draeger stood up. He picked up the placemat he had been scribbling³⁶ on and looked at it, smiling, then put it down and took his wallet from his pocket. “It’s still raining; do you have a car here? I could run you out to your house in mine. . . .” “No. Don’t do that. It ain’t but a few blocks.” “You’re certain? I don’t mind, really. And you look as if you could use—” “Yeah, I’m certain.”  “Very well, then.” Draeger pulled on his overcoat and flipped³⁷ up the collar. “I’ll see you tomorrow probably?” “Probably. If I got anything to report. Yeah, tomorrow.” On his way out Draeger handed Teddy a dollar bill for his drink and told him to keep the change. Evenwrite grunted³⁸ a “G’night” and pulled the door closed behind him. Teddy moved to his end of the bar, near the window. He watched the two men walk their different directions, their backs glowing with the stain of his neons. When the glows faded, as dark rain washed the stains off, Teddy circled his bar and locked the door and pulled down the shade with “Sorry closed” printed on it. He switched off the three smoky overhead lights and most of the neons, leaving a few for night lights. In this undersea gloom he made a silent round of his saloon, unplugging the pinballs and the bowling³⁹ machine, switching off the bubbling juke-box, clearing tables, emptying ashtrays⁴⁰ into a large coffee can. Back at the bar he untied⁴¹ his apron⁴² and dropped it in the laundry bag that Willard Eggleston’s helper would pick up Monday morning. He removed all the bills from the cash register and added them to a roll in a large conch-shell lamp, where they would wait for banking⁴³ day a week from the coming Monday. He flicked⁴⁴ the switch under the bar that put the silent sentinel of the burglar alarm on guard over all his doors and windows and grills⁴⁵. He dusted roach powder along the baseboard. He turned off the blowers on the oil heater and turned the oil down to a trickle⁴⁶. . . . And only then, after he had looked all about him, turning in a circle in the red and amber⁴⁷ light to be sure he had finished with all the chores he could think of, only then did he go to the table where they had been sitting to see what Draeger had written on the placemat. The Snag’s placemats were of corrugated⁴⁸ paper, embossed with a silhouette⁴⁹ of a topper just completing the saw-through of a spar tree, the top of the tree just beginning to tip as the topper reeled back, gripping his rope. Teddy held the mat to the light. Draeger’s doodles seemed quite ordinary at first: The tree had been striped like a barber pole—how many times had he seen that one?—and the logger’s eyes had been blacked out and a beard added; and a few crude popcorn-shaped objects had been placed about the paper sky to portray⁵⁰ clouds. ...Then, down in one corner he saw three lines of writing, in a sharp, precise hand so small Teddy almost missed seeing them: Teddy: I’m afraid you mistakenly served me Bourbon De Luxe instead of I. W. Harper. I just thought you would want this called to your attention. Teddy stared at the inscription⁵¹ in thrilled, unblinking wonder, What is it? what is it about you? until his eyes began to burn from the strain and the mat in his hand began to flutter in the light as though a red wind were blowing through the empty bar. At home, in his bathroom, Evenwrite sat on the clothes hamper⁵² in his shorts and undershirt, waiting for the tub to trickle full. It took hours nowadays to pull a good hot bath. They needed a new water heater, had for a long time. In fact—he sighed, looking about him—they needed a lot of new things; even the bottle of Vicks had been empty.

1 frustration   

n.挫折，失败，失效，落空

参考例句：

• He had to fight back tears of frustration.他不得不强忍住失意的泪水。
• He beat his hands on the steering wheel in frustration.他沮丧地用手打了几下方向盘。

2 itch   

n.痒，渴望，疥癣；vi.发痒，渴望

参考例句：

• Shylock has an itch for money.夏洛克渴望发财。
• He had an itch on his back.他背部发痒。

3 unreasonable   

adj.不讲道理的，不合情理的，过度的

参考例句：

• I know that they made the most unreasonable demands on you.我知道他们对你提出了最不合理的要求。
• They spend an unreasonable amount of money on clothes.他们花在衣服上的钱太多了。

4 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

5 obstinate   

adj.顽固的，倔强的，不易屈服的，较难治愈的

参考例句：

• She's too obstinate to let anyone help her.她太倔强了，不会让任何人帮她的。
• The trader was obstinate in the negotiation.这个商人在谈判中拗强固执。

6 picket   

n.纠察队；警戒哨；v.设置纠察线；布置警卫

参考例句：

• They marched to the factory and formed a picket.他们向工厂前进,并组成了纠察队。
• Some of the union members did not want to picket.工会的一些会员不想担任罢工纠察员。

7 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。

8 poised   

a.摆好姿势不动的

参考例句：

• The hawk poised in mid-air ready to swoop. 老鹰在半空中盘旋，准备俯冲。
• Tina was tense, her hand poised over the telephone. 蒂娜心情紧张，手悬在电话机上。

9 punitive   

adj.惩罚的，刑罚的

参考例句：

• They took punitive measures against the whole gang.他们对整帮人采取惩罚性措施。
• The punitive tariff was imposed to discourage tire imports from China.该惩罚性关税的征收是用以限制中国轮胎进口的措施。

10 halfway   

adj.中途的，不彻底的，部分的；adv.半路地，在中途，在半途

参考例句：

• We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路，天就黑了。
• In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上，最忌讳的是有始无终。

11 tickle   

v.搔痒，胳肢；使高兴；发痒；n.搔痒，发痒

参考例句：

• Wilson was feeling restless. There was a tickle in his throat.威尔逊只觉得心神不定。嗓子眼里有些发痒。
• I am tickle pink at the news.听到这消息我高兴得要命。

12 clenched   

v.紧握，抓紧，咬紧( clench的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He clenched his fists in anger. 他愤怒地攥紧了拳头。
• She clenched her hands in her lap to hide their trembling. 她攥紧双手放在腿上，以掩饰其颤抖。 来自《简明英汉词典》

13 swelled   

增强( swell的过去式和过去分词 )； 肿胀； （使）凸出； 充满（激情）

参考例句：

• The infection swelled his hand. 由于感染，他的手肿了起来。
• After the heavy rain the river swelled. 大雨过后，河水猛涨。

14 bulging   

膨胀； 凸出（部）； 打气； 折皱

参考例句：

• Her pockets were bulging with presents. 她的口袋里装满了礼物。
• Conscious of the bulging red folder, Nim told her,"Ask if it's important." 尼姆想到那个鼓鼓囊囊的红色文件夹便告诉她：“问问是不是重要的事。”

15 afflicted   

使受痛苦，折磨( afflict的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• About 40% of the country's population is afflicted with the disease. 全国40%左右的人口患有这种疾病。
• A terrible restlessness that was like to hunger afflicted Martin Eden. 一阵可怕的、跟饥饿差不多的不安情绪折磨着马丁·伊登。

16 virtue   

n.德行，美德；贞操；优点；功效，效力

参考例句：

• He was considered to be a paragon of virtue.他被认为是品德尽善尽美的典范。
• You need to decorate your mind with virtue.你应该用德行美化心灵。

17 acoustical   

adj. 听觉的，声学的，音响学的

参考例句：

• This system can set up acoustical resonances. 这种系统能产生共鸣。
• The relevance of acoustical principles is by no means limited to sound and hearing. 声学原理并不仅仅适用于声音和听觉。

18 distinguished   

adj.卓越的，杰出的，著名的

参考例句：

• Elephants are distinguished from other animals by their long noses.大象以其长长的鼻子显示出与其他动物的不同。
• A banquet was given in honor of the distinguished guests.宴会是为了向贵宾们致敬而举行的。

19 resounding   

adj. 响亮的

参考例句：

• The astronaut was welcomed with joyous,resounding acclaim. 人们欢声雷动地迎接那位宇航员。
• He hit the water with a resounding slap. 他啪的一声拍了一下水。

20 stifle   

vt.使窒息；闷死；扼杀；抑止，阻止

参考例句：

• She tried hard to stifle her laughter.她强忍住笑。
• It was an uninteresting conversation and I had to stifle a yawn.那是一次枯燥无味的交谈，我不得不强忍住自己的呵欠。

21 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

22 resonantly   

adv.共鸣地，反响地

参考例句：

• Richly scanted dark berry and plum aroma with complex fruitcake, richness and resonantly depth. 浓郁的黑浆果和李子的香味混合糕饼的香味。 来自互联网
• The cow carries on the back boy's piccolo, this time also day long in resonantly sound. 牛背上牧童的短笛，这时候也成天在嘹亮地响。 来自互联网

23 saliva   

n.唾液，口水

参考例句：

• He wiped a dribble of saliva from his chin.他擦掉了下巴上的几滴口水。
• Saliva dribbled from the baby's mouth.唾液从婴儿的嘴里流了出来。

24 cocktail   

n.鸡尾酒；餐前开胃小吃；混合物

参考例句：

• We invited some foreign friends for a cocktail party.我们邀请了一些外国朋友参加鸡尾酒会。
• At a cocktail party in Hollywood,I was introduced to Charlie Chaplin.在好莱坞的一次鸡尾酒会上，人家把我介绍给查理·卓别林。

25 amiably   

adv.和蔼可亲地，亲切地

参考例句：

• She grinned amiably at us. 她咧着嘴向我们亲切地微笑。
• Atheists and theists live together peacefully and amiably in this country. 无神论者和有神论者在该国和睦相处。 来自《简明英汉词典》

26 whatsoever   

adv.（用于否定句中以加强语气）任何；pron.无论什么

参考例句：

• There's no reason whatsoever to turn down this suggestion.没有任何理由拒绝这个建议。
• All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,do ye even so to them.你想别人对你怎样，你就怎样对人。

27 knuckle   

n.指节；vi.开始努力工作；屈服，认输

参考例句：

• They refused to knuckle under to any pressure.他们拒不屈从任何压力。
• You'll really have to knuckle down if you want to pass the examination.如果想通过考试，你确实应专心学习。

28 bind   

vt.捆，包扎；装订；约束；使凝固；vi.变硬

参考例句：

• I will let the waiter bind up the parcel for you.我让服务生帮你把包裹包起来。
• He wants a shirt that does not bind him.他要一件不使他觉得过紧的衬衫。

29 reassuring   

a.使人消除恐惧和疑虑的，使人放心的

参考例句：

• He gave her a reassuring pat on the shoulder. 他轻拍了一下她的肩膀让她放心。
• With a reassuring pat on her arm, he left. 他鼓励地拍了拍她的手臂就离开了。

30 confidentially   

ad.秘密地，悄悄地

参考例句：

• She was leaning confidentially across the table. 她神神秘秘地从桌子上靠过来。
• Kao Sung-nien and Wang Ch'u-hou talked confidentially in low tones. 高松年汪处厚两人低声密谈。

31 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》

32 regain   

vt.重新获得，收复，恢复

参考例句：

• He is making a bid to regain his World No.1 ranking.他正为重登世界排名第一位而努力。
• The government is desperate to regain credibility with the public.政府急于重新获取公众的信任。

33 abortive   

adj.不成功的，发育不全的

参考例句：

• We had to abandon our abortive attempts.我们的尝试没有成功，不得不放弃。
• Somehow the whole abortive affair got into the FBI files.这件早已夭折的案子不知怎么就进了联邦调查局的档案。

34 gathering   

n.集会，聚会，聚集

参考例句：

• He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
• He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。

35 bastards   

私生子( bastard的名词复数 )； 坏蛋； 讨厌的事物； 麻烦事 （认为别人走运或不幸时说）家伙

参考例句：

• Those bastards don't care a damn about the welfare of the factory! 这批狗养的，不顾大局！ 来自子夜部分
• Let the first bastards to find out be the goddam Germans. 就让那些混账的德国佬去做最先发现的倒霉鬼吧。 来自演讲部分

36 scribbling   

n.乱涂[写]胡[乱]写的文章[作品]v.潦草的书写( scribble的现在分词 )；乱画；草草地写；匆匆记下

参考例句：

• Once the money got into the book, all that remained were some scribbling. 折子上的钱只是几个字！ 来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
• McMug loves scribbling. Mama then sent him to the Kindergarten. 麦唛很喜欢写字，妈妈看在眼里，就替他报读了幼稚园。 来自互联网

37 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。

38 grunted   

（猪等）作呼噜声( grunt的过去式和过去分词 )； （指人）发出类似的哼声； 咕哝着说

参考例句：

• She just grunted, not deigning to look up from the page. 她只咕哝了一声，继续看书，不屑抬起头来看一眼。
• She grunted some incomprehensible reply. 她咕噜着回答了些令人费解的话。

39 bowling   

n.保龄球运动

参考例句：

• Bowling is a popular sport with young and old.保龄球是老少都爱的运动。
• Which sport do you 1ike most,golf or bowling?你最喜欢什么运动，高尔夫还是保龄球？

40 ashtrays   

烟灰缸( ashtray的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• A simple question: why are there ashtrays in a no-smoking restaurant? 问题是：一个禁止吸烟的餐厅为什么会有烟灰缸呢？
• Avoid temptation by throwing away all cigarettes, lighters and ashtrays. 把所有的香烟，打火机，和烟灰缸扔掉以避免引诱。

41 untied   

松开，解开( untie的过去式和过去分词 )； 解除，使自由； 解决

参考例句：

• Once untied, we common people are able to conquer nature, too. 只要团结起来，我们老百姓也能移山倒海。
• He untied the ropes. 他解开了绳子。

42 apron   

n.围裙；工作裙

参考例句：

• We were waited on by a pretty girl in a pink apron.招待我们的是一位穿粉红色围裙的漂亮姑娘。
• She stitched a pocket on the new apron.她在新围裙上缝上一只口袋。

43 banking   

n.银行业，银行学，金融业

参考例句：

• John is launching his son on a career in banking.约翰打算让儿子在银行界谋一个新职位。
• He possesses an extensive knowledge of banking.他具有广博的银行业务知识。

44 flicked   

（尤指用手指或手快速地）轻击( flick的过去式和过去分词 )； （用…）轻挥； （快速地）按开关； 向…笑了一下（或瞥了一眼等）

参考例句：

• She flicked the dust off her collar. 她轻轻弹掉了衣领上的灰尘。
• I idly picked up a magazine and flicked through it. 我漫不经心地拿起一本杂志翻看着。

45 grills   

n.烤架( grill的名词复数 )；（一盘）烤肉；格板；烧烤餐馆v.烧烤( grill的第三人称单数 )；拷问，盘问

参考例句：

• Backyard barbecue grills could be proscribed. 里弄烤肉店会被勒令停业的。 来自辞典例句
• Both side inlets have horizontal grills and incorporate impressive fog lamps. 两侧进气口的水平烤架并纳入令人印象深刻的雾灯。 来自互联网

46 trickle   

vi.淌，滴，流出，慢慢移动，逐渐消散

参考例句：

• The stream has thinned down to a mere trickle.这条小河变成细流了。
• The flood of cars has now slowed to a trickle.汹涌的车流现在已经变得稀稀拉拉。

47 amber   

n.琥珀；琥珀色；adj.琥珀制的

参考例句：

• Would you like an amber necklace for your birthday?你过生日想要一条琥珀项链吗？
• This is a piece of little amber stones.这是一块小小的琥珀化石。

48 corrugated   

adj.波纹的；缩成皱纹的；波纹面的；波纹状的v.（使某物）起皱褶(corrugate的过去式和过去分词)

参考例句：

• a corrugated iron roof 波纹铁屋顶
• His brow corrugated with the effort of thinking. 他皱着眉头用心地思考。 来自《简明英汉词典》

49 silhouette   

n.黑色半身侧面影，影子，轮廓；v.描绘成侧面影，照出影子来，仅仅显出轮廓

参考例句：

• I could see its black silhouette against the evening sky.我能看到夜幕下它黑色的轮廓。
• I could see the silhouette of the woman in the pickup.我可以见到小卡车的女人黑色半身侧面影。

50 portray   

v.描写，描述；画(人物、景象等)

参考例句：

• It is difficult to portray feelings in words.感情很难用言语来描写。
• Can you portray the best and worst aspects of this job?您能描述一下这份工作最好与最坏的方面吗？

51 inscription   

n.（尤指石块上的）刻印文字，铭文，碑文

参考例句：

• The inscription has worn away and can no longer be read.铭文已磨损，无法辨认了。
• He chiselled an inscription on the marble.他在大理石上刻碑文。

52 hamper   

vt.妨碍，束缚，限制；n.(有盖的)大篮子

参考例句：

• There are some apples in a picnic hamper.在野餐用的大篮子里有许多苹果。
• The emergence of such problems seriously hamper the development of enterprises.这些问题的出现严重阻碍了企业的发展。