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9. THE YELLOW JASMINE MYSTERY
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It was all very well for Poirot to say that we were acquiring information all the time and gaining an insight into our adversaries1' minds—I felt myself that I required some more tangible2 success than this.
Since we had come into contact with the Big Four, they had committed two murders, abducted3 Halliday, and had been within an ace4 of killing5 Poirot and myself; whereas so far we had hardly scored a point in the game.
Poirot treated my complaints lightly.
"So far, Hastings," he said, "they laugh. That is true, but you have a proverb, have you not: 'He laughs best who laughs at the end'? And at the end, mon ami, you shall see.
"You must remember, too," he added, "that we deal with no ordinary criminal, but with the second greatest brain in the world."
I forbore to pander6 to his conceit7 by asking the obvious question. I knew the answer, at least I knew what Poirot's answer would be, and instead I tried without success to elicit8 some information as to what steps he was taking to track down the enemy. As usual he had kept me completely in the dark as to his movements, but I gathered that he was in touch with secret service agents in India, China, and Russia, and, from his occasional bursts of self-glorification, that he was at least progressing in his favourite game of gauging9 his enemy's mind.
He had abandoned his private practice almost entirely10
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1 adversaries | |
n.对手,敌手( adversary的名词复数 ) | |
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2 tangible | |
adj.有形的,可触摸的,确凿的,实际的 | |
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3 abducted | |
劫持,诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 ); 使(肢体等)外展 | |
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4 ace | |
n.A牌;发球得分;佼佼者;adj.杰出的 | |
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5 killing | |
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财 | |
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6 pander | |
v.迎合;n.拉皮条者,勾引者;帮人做坏事的人 | |
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7 conceit | |
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8 elicit | |
v.引出,抽出,引起 | |
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9 gauging | |
n.测量[试],测定,计量v.(用仪器)测量( gauge的现在分词 );估计;计量;划分 | |
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10 entirely | |
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11 remarkably | |
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12 intrigued | |
adj.好奇的,被迷住了的v.搞阴谋诡计(intrigue的过去式);激起…的兴趣或好奇心;“intrigue”的过去式和过去分词 | |
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13 inspector | |
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15 compartment | |
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16 warily | |
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17 lucid | |
adj.明白易懂的,清晰的,头脑清楚的 | |
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18 incessant | |
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19 impecunious | |
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20 narrative | |
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22 purport | |
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23 descending | |
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24 charred | |
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25 narcotic | |
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26 scrawl | |
vt.潦草地书写;n.潦草的笔记,涂写 | |
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27 scrawled | |
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28 forefinger | |
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29 joint | |
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30 utterly | |
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31 agog | |
adj.兴奋的,有强烈兴趣的; adv.渴望地 | |
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32 dubiously | |
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33 sensational | |
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36 peculiar | |
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37 noted | |
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38 affected | |
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39 crux | |
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40 opium | |
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41 abrupt | |
adj.突然的,意外的;唐突的,鲁莽的 | |
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42 mused | |
v.沉思,冥想( muse的过去式和过去分词 );沉思自语说(某事) | |
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43 hearty | |
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44 reconstruction | |
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45 swelled | |
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46 pompous | |
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47 engrossed | |
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48 obsessed | |
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n.环境;出身背景;(个人所处的)社会环境 | |
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