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Unit Seven The Story of an Hour课文解释 Afflict：[often passive] formal to affect someone or something in an unpleasant way, and make them suffer afflict with/by I rather think some of them were afflicted with mental disease. a country afflicted by famine break ?NEWS? a) [intransitive] if news about an important event breaks, it becomes known News of his resignation broke yesterday afternoon. The minister has refused to give any interviews since the scandal broke. b) [transitive] if you break unpleasant news to someone, you tell it to them I didnt know how I was going to break the news to my mother. The doctor finally broke it to me that there was no cure. Intelligence a) information about the secret activities of foreign governments, the military plans of an enemy etc According to our intelligence, further attacks were planned. intelligence operations/sources/reports etc Intelligence sources denied the reports. b) a group of people or an organization that gathers this information for their government intelligence agencies/services etc In Britain there are three main intelligence organizations. US Military Intelligence CIA--- the Central Intelligence Agency 中央情报局 （FBI---- the Federal Bureau of Investigation 联邦调查局） assure yourself （formal） to check that something is correct or true assure yourself that Tim waited a moment to assure himself that he was not being followed. assure yourself of I took steps to assure myself of her guilt. As we will see shortly, it is much simpler to assure ourselves of gains from trade if it is true. forestall （formal） to prevent something from happening or prevent someone from doing something by doing something first a measure intended to forestall further attacks The National Guard was sent in, to forestall any trouble. But first, a brief general comment about space and time in order to forestall a possible misunderstanding. bearing the sad message: here carry/take the sad message back home paralyzed 1.unable to move part or all of your