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Language points Prickly pear仙人镜 仙人镜（Prickly Pear），又名郁金香仙人掌、沙漠仙人掌。一种生长在美国西南部和墨西哥北部的仙人掌，多分布于从海拔30米到1100米的沙漠地区，是一棵竖立并庞大的肉质灌木丛，上面长满了可以食用的果实和粗大的黑刺。仙人镜这种仙人掌生长十分缓慢，植物可高达3英尺（90 cm），丛围6到15英尺（1.8-4.5 m）。 每年的4月到6月开花，花朵最初的颜色是明亮的黄色，成熟后会结出粉红色的类似桔子的果实。果实可食，非常甜，可用做果冻和糖果。果汁可以制作一种明亮的红色染料。如果人被蚊虫叮咬，可以用其涂抹治疗。 Gazelle 瞪羚 瞪羚是羚羊亚科（Gazella）的一种。之所以叫瞪羚，是因为它两只眼睛特别大，眼球向外凸起，看起来就像瞪着眼一样。瞪羚是非常敏捷的动物；大多数瞪羚生活在非洲大草原 Ghetto犹太人区；贫民区 A ghetto is a part of a city in which a group of people live who are poor or not accepted as full citizens.城市中所划分的专门给贫穷人或不被接纳为市民的人所居住的区域。 The term was originally used in Venice威尼斯to describe the area where Jews were compelled to live in the Middle Ages. People in it are restricted only to that area and are not permitted to live elsewhere. The term ghetto now refers to the urban area which are very old, crowded and unsanitary不卫生的. Distressed area贫民区 Area where there is widespread unemployment, poverty, etc. a slum area Foreign legionnaire [,li:d??‘nε?]外籍军团 Notable people who served in the French Foreign Legion. France organized a foreign legion shortly after the conquest of Algiers阿尔及利亚首都-阿尔及尔 in 1830,which was primarily used to protect and expand the French colonial empire , but it is now comprised volunteer soldiers from any nation, including France, for service in France and abroad. Lucerne [ljus?:n]苜蓿；紫花苜蓿 苜蓿(mùxu): :英文名:Alfalfa [?lf?lf?] 或Lucerne 紫花苜蓿原产伊朗，是当今世界分布最广的栽培牧草，以“牧草之王”著称，在我国已有两千多年的栽培历史，主要产区在西北、华北、东北、江淮流域。 St. Bernard dog 圣伯纳犬 A large reddish-brown and white dog of a breed once kept by the monks of the hospice (旅客招待所) originally from Switzerland, where it was trained to rescue travelers in the snow. 瑞士境内游客招待所里训练出来救护遇险游客的一种身躯高大、红褐色白色相间的犬。 Fifteen-hands The hand is a unit of measurement of length, now used only for the measurement of the height of horses in some English-speaking countries. It was originally based on the breadth of a human palm, is now usually taken to be 4 inches. Negroes黑人 The word “Negro” is used in the English-speaking wo