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第08讲作业
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1. John can be relied on. He eats no fish and plays the game.
2. Last night I heard him driving his pigs to market.
3. His retort was delivered with a strong note of vinegar.
4. Some people say fear and caution are now a part of their daily routine.
5. Ruth was upsetting the other children, so I showed her the door.
6. Not too much can or should be read into the percentage.
7. His weariness and the increasing heat determined him to sit down in the first convenient shade.
8. But his wife kept dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family.
9. “I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman,” she said in 1588, “but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and a king of England too.”
10. Wisdom is knowledge returning home.
11. A righteous child is a blessing to its parents and society.
12. I do not think I need your protection.
13. Perhaps I in the way, then?
14. It is expected.
15. The supreme vice is shallowness.
16. The fates are always against me!
17. By some happy fortune I was not seasick.
1. He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight.
2. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing ou