高级英语课后习题答案

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I. Give brief answers to the following questions, using your own words as much as possible-

1) Did Ogilvie deliberatedly delay his call at the Croydons' suite? Why?

2) Why did the Duchess send her maid and secretary out?

3) Why do you think Ogilvie was being deliberately offensive to the Croydons in the beginning?

4) How did the Duchess know where the Duke had gone the night the accident occurred?

5) How did Ogilvie come to suspect the Croydons of the hit-' n run crime?

6) what is a 'brush trace'?

7) What made the Duchess jump to the conclusion that Ogilvie had come to blackmail them?

8) Why didn't the police come immediately to the hotel to check the cars?

9) Why couldn't the Duchess get her car repaired discreetly in New Orleans?

10) Why did the Duchess decide to make the detective drive their car north?

11) Why did the Duchess offer Ogilvie twenty-five thousand dollars instead of the ten thousand the detective asked for?

12) Did Ogilvie accept the Duchess’ offer?

II. Paraphrase:

1) The house detective's piggy eyes surveyed her sardonically from his gross jowled face.

2) Pretty neat set-up you folks got.

3) The obese body shook in an appreciative chuckle.

4) He lowered the level of his incongruous falsetto voice.

5) The words spat forth with sudden savagery, all pretense of blandness gone.

6) The Duchess of Corydon –three centuries and a half of in-bred arrogance behind her -- did not yield easily.

7) "It is no go, old girl. I'm afraid. It was a good try."

8) "That's more like it," Ogilvie said. He lit the fresh cigar, "Now we're getting somewhere."

9) his eyes sardonically on the Duchess as if challenging her objection.

10) The house detective clucked his tongue reprovingly.

Ⅲ. Translate the following into Chinese:

1) "I'll tell you, Duke -- I've been in this town and this hotel a long time. I got friends all over. I oblige them; they do the same for me, like letting me know what gives, an' where. There ain't much, out of the way, which people who stay in this hotel do, I don’ t get to hear about. Most of 'em never know I know, or know me. They think they got their little secret tucked away, and so they have –except like now."

2) "Well now, there's no call for being hasty," The incongruous falsetto voice took on a musing note. "What's done's been done. Rushin' any place ain't gonna bring back the kid nor its mother neither. Besides, what they' d do to you across at the headquarters, Duke, you wouldn’t' t like. No sir, you wouldn't like it at all."

3) The Duchess of Croydon kept firm, tight rein on her racing mind. It was