高级英语试卷8.DOCVIP

高级英语试题（八） Explain the italicized words or phrases in the following sentences. (20%) Ancient girders creak and groan, ropes tighten and then a trickle of oil oozes down a stone runnel into a used petrol can. Every here and there, a doorway gives a glimpse of a sunlit courtyard, …while the great bales of merchandise they have carried hundreds of miles across the desert lie beside them. Ancient girders creak and groan, ropes tighten and then a trickle of oil oozes down a stone runnel into a used petrol can. Quickly the trickle becomes a flood of glistening linseed oil as the beam sinks earthwards, taut and protesting, … Ancient girders creak and groan, ropes tighten and then a trickle of oil oozes down a stone runnel into a used petrol can. Quickly the trickle becomes a flood of glistening linseed oil as the beam sinks earthwards, taut and protesting, … I see the ten thousand villages of Russia where the means of existence is wrung so hardly from the soil, but where there are still primordial human joys, where maidens laugh and children play. We have but one aim and one single, irrevocable purpose. We are resolved to destroy Hitler and every vestige of the Nazi regime. His invasion of Russia is no more than a prelude to an attempted invasion of the British Isles. The words spat forth with sudden savagery, all pretense of blandness gone. The house detective clucked his tongue reprovingly. As the Duke of Croydon shifted uneasily, the house detective’s bulbous countenance reddened. She jumped up from the table and went over in the corner where the churn stood, the milk in it clabber by now. After we watched the car dust settle I asked Maggie to bring me a dip of snuff. After we watched the car dust settle I asked Maggie to bring me a dip of snuff. I see her standing off under the sweet gum tree she used to dig gum out of. Furtive boys in pink shirts hanging about on washday after school. He flew to marry a cheap city girl from a family of ignorant flashy people. When a co