📖 A Sly Murder 狡猾的谋杀

第 40 篇 · 共 40 篇 ｜ 高考词汇以 绿色 高亮，下方附释义
S1
When giving a lecture about the significance of punctuation, the academic professor was interrupted and arrested by the police for murdering his wife, a receptionist of a kindergarten.
这位学术教授正在做一场关于标点符号重要性的讲座时，被警察打断并逮捕，罪名是谋杀他的妻子——一家幼儿园的接待员。
significance 重要性、意义 academic 学术的 arrest 逮捕 receptionist 接待员
S2
The police found some photos he deleted from their e-album showing that they used to have a gay life.
警方找到了他从他们的电子相册里删除的一些照片，这些照片表明他们曾经过着快乐幸福的生活。
delete 删除 gay （旧义）快乐的、愉快的
S3
But, fed up with her wrinkled face, he murdered her instead of divorcing her to avoid fortune division.
可是，他受够了她那张布满皱纹的脸。为了避免分割财产，他没有和她离婚，而是杀了她。
be fed up with 厌倦、受够了 wrinkled 布满皱纹的 divorce 与…离婚 fortune division 财产分割
S4
He cut up a kind of seashell with a sharpened knife, and hammered it into powder on a skateboard, and made at most one gram, which was enough to accelerate one's pulse until he or she dies.
他用一把磨利的刀切开一种贝壳，在滑板上把它砸成粉末，最多制成了大约一克——这足以让人的心跳加速，直到人死去。
seashell 贝壳 sharpened 磨锋利的 hammer 锤打、砸 accelerate 加速
S5
This kind of poison can date back to 10,000 BC when people rubbed it on spears to kill beasts.
这种毒药可以追溯到公元前一万年，那时人们把它涂在长矛上去猎杀野兽。
poison 毒药 date back to 追溯到 spear 长矛 beast 野兽
S6
The professor mixed the poison with onion, watermelon and yogurt for his wife.
教授把毒药和洋葱、西瓜还有酸奶混在一起给妻子吃。
mix 混合 onion 洋葱 watermelon 西瓜 yogurt 酸奶
S7
Howling and scratching her chest, she felt dizzy and died soon.
她嚎叫着，抓挠着胸口，感到头晕目眩，很快就死了。
howl 嚎叫、哀号 scratch 抓、挠 dizzy 头晕目眩的
S8
After tentative examination, the police assumed she died of heart disease.
经过初步检验，警方推测她是死于心脏病。
tentative 初步的、试验性的 assume 假定、推测 heart disease 心脏病
S9
But systematic botanical analyses showed that the watermelon spit on the messy mat and the quilt was poisonous.
但是，系统的植物学分析表明，吐在那张脏乱的垫子和被子上的西瓜是有毒的。
systematic 系统的 botanical 植物学的 analysis 分析 poisonous 有毒的
S10
Regardless of exhaustion and starvation, the acute and skilful policemen used radioactive equipment to make sure the category of the poison.
不顾精疲力竭和饥饿，敏锐而熟练的警察们使用放射性设备来确定毒药的种类。
regardless of 不顾、不管 exhaustion 精疲力竭 starvation 饥饿 category 种类、类别
S11
Primitive and not ample as their alternative equipment was, they got perfect accuracy somehow.
尽管他们备用的设备简陋又不够充足，他们还是不知怎么地达到了完美的精确度。
primitive 简陋的、原始的 ample 充足的 alternative 备用的、可供选择的 accuracy 精确度、准确性
S12
People applauded the police and the woman's family can look ahead with relief.
人们为警察鼓掌称赞，而这位女士的家人也终于可以宽慰地展望未来了。
applaud 鼓掌、称赞 relief 宽慰、解脱