Chapter 7

Jaim Twer  fidgeted and shuffled¹ his  feet. He said, "What's  twisting yourface?"Hober  Mallow lifted  out of his  brooding, "Is  my face twisted?  It's notmeant so.""Something must have happened yesterday, 朓 mean, besides that feast." Withsudden    conviction,    "Mallow,    there's    trouble,   isn't    there?""Trouble? No. Quite the  opposite. In fact, I'm in the position of throwingmy  full weight  against  a door  and finding  it ajar  at the  time. We'regetting into this steel foundry too easily.""You suspect a trap?""Oh,  for  Seldon's  sake, don't  be  melodramatic."  Mallow swallowed  hisimpatience and  added conversationally,  "It's just that  the easy entrancemeans there will be nothing to see.
"Nuclear power, huh?" Twer ruminated². "I'll tell you. There's just about noevidence  of any  nuclear power  economy here  in Korell.  And it  would bepretty  hard to  mask  all signs  of the  widespread effects  a fundamentaltechnology such as nucleics would have on everything.""Not if it was  just starting up, Twer, and being applied³ to a war economy.
You'd   find  it  in   the  shipyards   and  the  steel   foundries  only.""So if we don't find it, then?
"Then they haven't got  it ?or they're not showing it. Toss a coin or takea guess."Twer   shook   his  head,   "I   wish   I'd  been   with  you   yesterday.""I wish  you had, too," said Mallow stonily⁴. "I  have no objection to moralsupport.  Unfortunately,  it was  the  Commdor  who set  the  terms of  themeeting, and not myself.  And what is coming now would seem to be the royalgroundcar  to  escort  us  to  the  foundry.  Have you  got  the  gadgets⁵?""All of them."

1 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》

2 ruminated   

v.沉思( ruminate的过去式和过去分词 )；反复考虑；反刍；倒嚼

参考例句：

• In the article she ruminated about what recreations she would have. 她在文章里认真考虑了她应做些什么消遣活动。 来自辞典例句
• He ruminated on his defenses before he should accost her father. 他在与她父亲搭话前，仔细地考虑着他的防范措施。 来自辞典例句

3 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

4 stonily   

石头地，冷酷地

参考例句：

• She stared stonily at him for a minute. 她冷冷地盯着他看了片刻。
• Proudly lined up on a long bench, they stonily awaited their victims. 轿夫们把花炮全搬出来，放在门房里供人们赏鉴。 来自汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）

5 gadgets   

n.小机械，小器具（ gadget的名词复数 ）

参考例句：

• Certainly. The idea is not to have a house full of gadgets. 当然。设想是房屋不再充满小配件。 来自超越目标英语 第4册
• This meant more gadgets and more experiments. 这意味着要设计出更多的装置，做更多的实验。 来自英汉非文学 - 科学史