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Is it difficult to answer the question “Who are braver, men or women”? What is cobra? What should people do when they see cobras ? Heated :adj.热的，激昂的，兴奋的 Is it a heated swimming-pool? 这是温水游泳池吗? Water can be changed into vapor when heated. 水被加热时，可以变成水蒸汽。 Practice The discussion quickly became a very______ argument about increasing price . A. heated B. roaring C. warm D. boiling 译文：讨论很快变成关于涨价问题的激烈争论。 Unexpected: adj. 想不到的，意外的 What an unexpected pleasure! 这真是个意外的惊喜！ The unexpected guest disordered his plans. 这位不速之客打乱了他的计划。 Practice I don’t mind a bit if you bring your friends in for a drink ,but it is rather too much when sixteen people arrive ____for dinner . A. Unusually B. Excessively C. consequently D. unexpectedly ? Naturalist Naturalist is a person who studies plants or animals, especially outdoors. shortly: soon; (in) a little time e.g.? Shortly afterwards, the police stopped the car and both men were arrested. 过了没有多久,警察截住了那辆汽车,两个贼 都被抓获了。 He answered me shortly. 他很唐突地答覆我。 Useful expressions to answer shortly 简短地回答 shortly after ...之后立即 shortly before ...之前不久 to put it shortly简言之 I finally track down the reference in a dictionary of quotation. 我终於在引语词典中查到了那段引文。 It took the police several days to track down their quarry. 警方用了几天时间追查到案中目标。 Para one 我最初听到这个故事是在印度，那儿的人们今天讲起它来仍好像实有其事似的――尽管任何一位博物学家都知道这不可能是真的。后来有人告诉我，在第一次世界大战之前不久，一家杂志曾刊登过这个故事。但登在杂志上的那篇故事以及写那篇故事的人，我却一直未能找到。 1. A colonial official and his wife… Here in the text “a colonial official” means a British citizen appointed to a governmental position in India, a British colony for many years until 1947. 2. They are seated with their guests… be seated: seat oneself, sit down e.g. He was seated at the piano, with his back to them. Spacious :adj. 广阔的，宽敞的 The hotel is neither spacious nor comfortable. 这旅馆既不宽敞也不舒服。 A Spacious office 宽敞的办公室 A spacious apartment 宽敞的公寓 Practice Many scientis