高级英语试卷10.DOCVIP

高级英语试题（十） Explain the italicized words or expressions in the following sentences. (20%) Bargaining is the order of the day, and veiled women move at a leisurely pace from shop to shop, selecting, pricing and doing a little preliminary bargaining… .… and the buyers overwhelmed by the sepulchral atmosphere, follow suit. Little donkeys with harmoniously tinkling bells thread their way among the throngs of people entering and leaving the bazaar. … and veiled women move at a leisurely pace from shop to shop, selecting, pricing and doing a little preliminary bargaining before they narrow down their choice and … Then as you penetrate deeper into the bazaar, the noise of the entrance fades away, and you come to the muted cloth-market. …and veiled women move at a leisurely pace from shop to shop, …doing a little preliminary bargaining before they narrow down their choice and... …and veiled women move at a leisurely pace from shop to shop, … and begin the really serious business of beating the price down. It is a vast, somber cavern of a room, some thirty feet high and sixty feet square, and so thick with the dust of centuries that the mudbrick walls … are only dimly visible. It is a vast, somber cavern of a room, … and so thick with the dust of centuries that the mudbrick walls and vaulted roof are only dimly visible. The machine is operated by one man, who…, and then throws his weight on to a great beam made out of a tree trunk to set the ropes and pulleys in motion. In each shop sit the apprentices… hammering away at copper vessels. It is a vast, somber cavern of a room, …and so thick with the dust of centuries that the mudbrick walls and vaulted roof are only dimly visible. In each shop sit the apprentices… while the shop-owner instructs, and sometimes takes a hand with a hammer himself. The seller, on the other hand, makes a point of protesting that the price he is charging is depriving him of all profit, and that he is sacrificing this because of … Here you can find b