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IV
Christmas dinner took place at 2 p.m. and was a feast indeed. Enormous logs crackled merrily in
the wide fireplace and above their crackling rose the babel of many tongues talking together.
Oyster1 soup had been consumed, two enormous turkeys had come and gone, mere2 carcasses of
their former selves. Now, the supreme4 moment, the Christmas pudding was brought in, in state!
Old Peverell, his hands and his knees shaking with the weakness of eighty years, permitted no one
but himself to bear it in. Mrs Lacey sat, her hands pressed together in nervous apprehension5. One
Christmas, she felt sure, Peverell would fall down dead. Having either to take the risk of letting
him fall down dead or of hurting his feelings to such an extent that he would probably prefer to be
dead than alive, she had so far chosen the former alternative. On a silver dish the Christmas
pudding reposed6 in its glory. A large football of a pudding, a piece of holly7 stuck in it like a
triumphant8 flag and glorious flames of blue and red rising round it. There was a cheer and cries of
"Ooh-ah."
One thing Mrs Lacey had done: prevailed upon Peverell to place the pudding in front of her so that
she could help it rather than hand it in turn round the table. She breathed a sigh of relief as it was
deposited safely in front of her. Rapidly the plates were passed round, flames still licking the
portions.
"Wish, M. Poirot," cried Bridget. "Wish before the flame goes. Quick, Gran darling, quick."
Mrs Lacey leant back with a sigh of satisfaction. Operation Pudding had been a success. In front
of everyone was a helping9 with flames still licking. There was a momentary10 silence all round the
table as everyone wished hard.
There was nobody to notice the rather curious expression on the face of M. Poirot as he surveyed
the portion of pudding on his plate. "Don't eat none of the plum pudding." What on earth did that
sinister11 warning mean? There could be nothing different about his portion of plum pudding from
that of everyone else! Sighing as he admitted himself baffled - and Hercule Poirot never liked to
admit himself baffled - he picked up his spoon and fork.
"Hard sauce, M. Poirot?"
Poirot helped himself appreciatively to hard sauce.
"Swiped my best brandy again, eh, Em?" said the colonel good-humouredly from the other end of
the table. Mrs Lacey twinkled at him.
"Mrs Ross insists on having the best brandy, dear," she said. "She says it makes all the difference."
"Well, well," said Colonel Lacey, "Christmas comes but once a year and Mrs Ross is a great
woman. A great woman and a great cook."
"She is indeed," said Colin. "Smashing plum pudding, this. Mmmm." He filled an appreciative12
mouth.
Gently, almost gingerly, Hercule Poirot attacked his portion of pudding. He ate a mouthful. It was
delicious! He ate another. Something tinkled13 faintly on his plate. He investigated with a fork.
Bridget, on his left, came to his aid.
"You've got something, M. Poirot," she said. "I wonder what it is."
Poirot detached a little silver object from the surrounding raisins14 that clung to it.
"Oooh," said Bridget, "it's the bachelor's button! M. Poirot's got the bachelor's button!"
Hercule Poirot dipped the small silver button into the finger-glass of water that stood by his plate,
and washed it clear of pudding crumbs15.
"It is very pretty," he observed.
"That means you're going to be a bachelor, M. Poirot," explained Colin helpfully.
"That is to be expected," said Poirot gravely. "I have been a bachelor for many long years and it is
unlikely that I shall change that status now."
"Oh, never say die," said Michael. "I saw in the paper that someone of ninety-five married a girl of
twenty-two the other day."
"You encourage me," said Hercule Poirot.
Colonel Lacey uttered a sudden exclamation16. His face became purple and his hand went to his
mouth.
"Confound it, Emmeline," he roared, "why on earth do you let the cook put glass in the pudding?"
"Glass!" cried Mrs Lacey, astonished.
Colonel Lacey withdrew the offending substance from his mouth. "Might have broken a tooth," he
grumbled17. "Or swallowed the damn' thing and had appendicitis18."
He dropped the piece of glass into the finger-bowl, rinsed19 it and held it up.
"God bless my soul," he ejaculated, "It's a red stone out of one of the cracker20 brooches." He held it
aloft.
"You permit?"
Very deftly21 M. Poirot stretched across his neighbour, took it from Colonel Lacey's fingers and
examined it attentively22. As the squire23 had said, it was an enormous red stone the colour of a ruby24.
The light gleamed from its facets25 as he turned it about. Somewhere around the table a chair was
pushed sharply back and then drawn26 in again.
"Phew!" cried Michael. "How wizard it would be if it was real."
"Perhaps it is real," said Bridget hopefully.
"Oh, don't be an ass3, Bridget. Why a ruby of that size would be worth thousands and thousands of
pounds. Wouldn't it, M. Poirot?"
"It would indeed," said Poirot.
"But what I can't understand," said Mrs Lacey, "is how it got into the pudding."
"Oooh," said Colin, diverted by his last mouthful, "I've got the pig. It isn't fair."
Bridget chanted immediately, "Colin's got the pig! Colin's got the pig! Colin is the greedy guzzling27
pig!"
"I've got the ring," said Diana in a clear, high voice.
"Good for you, Diana. You'll be married first, of us all."
"I've got the thimble," wailed28 Bridget.
"Bridget's going to be an old maid," chanted the two boys. "Yah, Bridget's going to be an old
maid."
"Who's got the money?" demanded David. "There's a real ten shilling piece, gold, in this pudding.
I know. Mrs Ross told me so."
"I think I'm the lucky one," said Desmond Lee-Wortley.
Colonel Lacey's two next door neighbours heard him mutter, "Yes, you would be."
"I've got a ring, too," said David. He looked across at Diana. "Quite a coincidence, isn't it?"
The laughter went on. Nobody noticed that M. Poirot carelessly, as though thinking of something
else, had dropped the red stone into his pocket.
Mince-pies and Christmas dessert followed the pudding. The older members of the party then
retired29 for a welcome siesta30 before the tea-time ceremony of the lighting31 of the Christmas tree.
Hercule Poirot, however, did not take a siesta. Instead, he made his way to the enormous old-
fashioned kitchen.
"It is permitted," he asked, looking round and beaming, "that I congratulate the cook on this
marvellous meal that I have just eaten?"
There was a moment's pause and then Mrs Ross came forward in a stately manner to meet him.
She was a large woman, nobly built with all the dignity of a stage duchess. Two lean grey-haired
women were beyond in the scullery washing up and a tow-haired girl was moving to and fro
between the scullery and the kitchen. But these were obviously mere myrmidons. Mrs Ross was
the queen of the kitchen quarters.
"I am glad to hear you enjoyed it, sir," she said graciously.
"Enjoyed it!" cried Hercule Poirot. With an extravagant32 foreign gesture he raised his hand to his
lips, kissed it, and wafted33 the kiss to the ceiling. "But you are a genius, Mrs Ross! A genius! Never
have I tasted such a wonderful meal. The oyster soup..." he made an expressive34 noise with his lips.
"- and the stuffing. The chestnut35 stuffing in the turkey, that was quite unique in my experience."
"Well, it's funny that you should say that, sir," said Mrs Ross graciously. "It's a very special recipe,
that stuffing. It was given me by an Austrian chef that I worked with many years ago. But all the
rest," she added, "is just good, plain English cooking."
"And is there anything better?" demanded Hercule Poirot.
"Well, it's nice of you to say so, sir. Of course, you being a foreign gentleman might have
preferred the continental36 style. Not but what I can't manage continental dishes too."
"I am sure, Mrs Ross, you could manage anything! But you must know that English cooking -
good English cooking, not the cooking one gets in the second-class hotels or the restaurants - is
much appreciated by gourmets37 on the continent, and I believe I am correct in saying that a special
expedition was made to London in the early eighteen hundreds, and a report sent back to France of
the wonders of the English puddings. 'We have nothing like that in France,' they wrote. 'It is worth
making a journey to London just to taste the varieties and excellencies of the English puddings.'
And above all puddings," continued Poirot, well launched now on a kind of rhapsody, "is the
Christmas plum pudding, such as we have eaten today. That was a homemade pudding, was it not?
Not a bought one?"
"Yes, indeed, sir. Of my own making and my own recipe such as I've made for many, many years.
When I came here Mrs Lacey said that she'd ordered a pudding from a London store to save me
the trouble. But no, Madam, I said, that may be kind of you but no bought pudding from a store
can equal a homemade Christmas one. Mind you," said Mrs Ross, warming to her subject like the
artist she was, "it was made too soon before the day. A good Christmas pudding should be made
some weeks before and allowed to wait. The longer they're kept, within reason, the better they are.
I mind now that when I was a child and we went to church every Sunday, we'd start listening for
the collect that begins 'Stir up O Lord we beseech38 thee' because that collect was the signal, as it
were, that the puddings should be made that week. And so they always were. We had the collect
on the Sunday, and that week sure enough my mother would make the Christmas puddings. And
so it should have been here this year. As it was, that pudding was only made three days ago, the
day before you arrived, sir. However, I kept to the old custom. Everyone in the house had to come
out into the kitchen and have a stir and make a wish. That's an old custom, sir, and I've always
held to it."
"Most interesting," said Hercule Poirot. "Most interesting. And so everyone came out into the
kitchen?"
"Yes, sir. The young gentlemen, Miss Bridget and the London gentleman who's staying here, and
his sister and Mr David and Miss Diana - Mrs Middleton, I should say... All had a stir, they did."
"How many puddings did you make? Is this the only one?"
"No, sir, I made four. Two large ones and two smaller ones. The other large one I planned to serve
on New Year's Day and the smaller ones were for Colonel and Mrs Lacey when they're alone like
and not so many in the family."
"I see, I see," said Poirot.
"As a matter of fact, sir," said Mrs Lacey, "it was the wrong pudding you had for lunch today."
"The wrong pudding?" Poirot frowned. "How is that?"
"Well, sir, we have a big Christmas mould. A china mould with a pattern of holly and mistletoe on
top and we always have the Christmas Day pudding boiled in that. But there was a most
unfortunate accident. This morning, when Annie was getting it down from the shelf in the larder39,
she slipped and dropped it and it broke. Well, sir, naturally I couldn't serve that, could I? There
might have been splinters in it. So we had to use the other one - the New Year's Day one, which
was in a plain bowl. It makes a nice round but it's not so decorative40 as the Christmas mould.
Really, where we'll get another mould like that I don't know. They don't make things in that size
nowadays. All tiddly bits of things. Why, you can't even buy a breakfast dish that'll take a proper
eight to ten eggs and bacon. Ah, things aren't what they were."
"No, indeed," said Poirot. "But today that is not so. This Christmas Day has been like the
Christmas Days of old, is that not true?"
Mrs Ross sighed. "Well, I'm glad you say so, sir, but of course I haven't the help now that I used to
have. Not skilled help, that is. The girls nowadays..." she lowered her voice slightly," they mean
very well and they're very willing but they've not been trained, sir, if you understand what I
mean."
"Times change, yes," said Hercule Poirot. "I too find it sad sometimes."
"This house, sir," said Mrs Ross, "it's too large, you know, for the mistress and the colonel. The
mistress, she knows that. Living in a corner of it as they do, it's not the same thing at all. It only
comes alive, as you might say, at Christmas time when all the family come."
"It is the first time, I think, that Mr Lee-Wortley and his sister have been here?"
"Yes, sir." A note of slight reserve crept into Mrs Ross's voice. "A very nice gentleman he is but,
well - it seems a funny friend for Miss Sarah to have, according to our ideas. But there - London
ways are different! It's sad that his sister's so poorly. Had an operation, she had. She seemed all
right the first day she was here, but that very day, after we'd been stirring the puddings, she was
took bad again and she's been in bed ever since. Got up too soon after her operation, I expect. Ah,
doctors nowadays, they have you out of hospital before you can hardly stand on your feet. Why,
my very own nephew's wife..." And Mrs Ross went into a long and spirited tale of hospital
treatment as accorded to her relations, comparing it unfavourably with the consideration that had
been lavished41 upon them in older times.
Poirot duly commiserated42 with her. "It remains," he said, "to thank you for this exquisite43 and
sumptuous44 meal. You permit a little acknowledgment of my appreciation45?"
A crisp five pound note passed from his hand into that of Mrs Ross who said perfunctorily:
"You really shouldn't do that, sir."
"I insist. I insist."
"Well, it's very kind of you indeed, sir." Mrs Ross accepted the tribute as no more than her due.
"And I wish you, sir, a very happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year."

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1 oyster w44z6     
n.牡蛎；沉默寡言的人
参考例句：
  • I enjoy eating oyster; it's really delicious.我喜欢吃牡蛎，它味道真美。
  • I find I fairly like eating when he finally persuades me to taste the oyster.当他最后说服我尝尝牡蛎时，我发现我相当喜欢吃。
2 mere rC1xE     
adj.纯粹的；仅仅，只不过
参考例句：
  • That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不过是重复了你以前讲的话。
  • It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.再等下去纯粹是浪费时间。
3 ass qvyzK     
n.驴；傻瓜，蠢笨的人
参考例句：
  • He is not an ass as they make him.他不象大家猜想的那样笨。
  • An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden.驴能负重但不能超过它能力所负担的。
4 supreme PHqzc     
adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的
参考例句：
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
5 apprehension bNayw     
n.理解，领悟；逮捕，拘捕；忧虑
参考例句：
  • There were still areas of doubt and her apprehension grew.有些地方仍然存疑，于是她越来越担心。
  • She is a girl of weak apprehension.她是一个理解力很差的女孩。
6 reposed ba178145bbf66ddeebaf9daf618f04cb     
v.将（手臂等）靠在某人（某物）上( repose的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
  • Mr. Cruncher reposed under a patchwork counterpane, like a Harlequin at home. 克朗彻先生盖了一床白衲衣图案的花哨被子，像是呆在家里的丑角。 来自英汉文学 - 双城记
  • An old man reposed on a bench in the park. 一位老人躺在公园的长凳上。 来自辞典例句
7 holly hrdzTt     
n.[植]冬青属灌木
参考例句：
  • I recently acquired some wood from a holly tree.最近我从一棵冬青树上弄了些木料。
  • People often decorate their houses with holly at Christmas.人们总是在圣诞节时用冬青来装饰房屋。
8 triumphant JpQys     
adj.胜利的，成功的；狂欢的，喜悦的
参考例句：
  • The army made a triumphant entry into the enemy's capital.部队胜利地进入了敌方首都。
  • There was a positively triumphant note in her voice.她的声音里带有一种极为得意的语气。
9 helping 2rGzDc     
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的
参考例句：
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
10 momentary hj3ya     
adj.片刻的，瞬息的；短暂的
参考例句：
  • We are in momentary expectation of the arrival of you.我们无时无刻不在盼望你的到来。
  • I caught a momentary glimpse of them.我瞥了他们一眼。
11 sinister 6ETz6     
adj.不吉利的，凶恶的，左边的
参考例句：
  • There is something sinister at the back of that series of crimes.在这一系列罪行背后有险恶的阴谋。
  • Their proposals are all worthless and designed out of sinister motives.他们的建议不仅一钱不值，而且包藏祸心。
12 appreciative 9vDzr     
adj.有鉴赏力的，有眼力的；感激的
参考例句：
  • She was deeply appreciative of your help.她对你的帮助深表感激。
  • We are very appreciative of their support in this respect.我们十分感谢他们在这方面的支持。
13 tinkled a75bf1120cb6e885f8214e330dbfc6b7     
（使）发出丁当声，（使）发铃铃声( tinkle的过去式和过去分词 )； 叮当响着发出，铃铃响着报出
参考例句：
  • The sheep's bell tinkled through the hills. 羊的铃铛叮当叮当地响彻整个山区。
  • A piano tinkled gently in the background. 背景音是悠扬的钢琴声。
14 raisins f7a89b31fdf9255863139804963e88cf     
n.葡萄干( raisin的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • These raisins come from Xinjiang,they taste delicious. 这些葡萄干产自新疆，味道很甜。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Mother put some raisins in the cake. 母亲在糕饼中放了一些葡萄干。 来自辞典例句
15 crumbs crumbs     
int. (表示惊讶)哎呀 n. 碎屑 名词crumb的复数形式
参考例句：
  • She stood up and brushed the crumbs from her sweater. 她站起身掸掉了毛衣上的面包屑。
  • Oh crumbs! Is that the time? 啊，天哪！都这会儿啦？
16 exclamation onBxZ     
n.感叹号，惊呼，惊叹词
参考例句：
  • He could not restrain an exclamation of approval.他禁不住喝一声采。
  • The author used three exclamation marks at the end of the last sentence to wake up the readers.作者在文章的最后一句连用了三个惊叹号，以引起读者的注意。
17 grumbled ed735a7f7af37489d7db1a9ef3b64f91     
抱怨( grumble的过去式和过去分词 )； 发牢骚； 咕哝； 发哼声
参考例句：
  • He grumbled at the low pay offered to him. 他抱怨给他的工资低。
  • The heat was sweltering, and the men grumbled fiercely over their work. 天热得让人发昏，水手们边干活边发着牢骚。
18 appendicitis 4Nqz8     
n.阑尾炎，盲肠炎
参考例句：
  • He came down with appendicitis.他得了阑尾炎。
  • Acute appendicitis usually develops without relation to the ingestion of food.急性阑尾炎的发生通常与饮食无关。
19 rinsed 637d6ed17a5c20097c9dbfb69621fd20     
v.漂洗( rinse的过去式和过去分词 )；冲洗；用清水漂洗掉（肥皂泡等）；（用清水）冲掉
参考例句：
  • She rinsed out the sea water from her swimming-costume. 她把游泳衣里的海水冲洗掉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The clothes have been rinsed three times. 衣服已经洗了三和。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
20 cracker svCz5a     
n.（无甜味的）薄脆饼干
参考例句：
  • Buy me some peanuts and cracker.给我买一些花生和饼干。
  • There was a cracker beside every place at the table.桌上每个位置旁都有彩包爆竹。
21 deftly deftly     
adv.灵巧地，熟练地，敏捷地
参考例句：
  • He deftly folded the typed sheets and replaced them in the envelope. 他灵巧地将打有字的纸折好重新放回信封。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • At last he had a clew to her interest, and followed it deftly. 这一下终于让他发现了她的兴趣所在，于是他熟练地继续谈这个话题。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
22 attentively AyQzjz     
adv.聚精会神地；周到地；谛；凝神
参考例句：
  • She listened attentively while I poured out my problems. 我倾吐心中的烦恼时，她一直在注意听。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She listened attentively and set down every word he said. 她专心听着，把他说的话一字不漏地记下来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
23 squire 0htzjV     
n.护卫, 侍从, 乡绅
参考例句：
  • I told him the squire was the most liberal of men.我告诉他乡绅是世界上最宽宏大量的人。
  • The squire was hard at work at Bristol.乡绅在布里斯托尔热衷于他的工作。
24 ruby iXixS     
n.红宝石，红宝石色
参考例句：
  • She is wearing a small ruby earring.她戴着一枚红宝石小耳环。
  • On the handle of his sword sat the biggest ruby in the world.他的剑柄上镶有一颗世上最大的红宝石。
25 facets f954532ea6a2c241dcb9325762a2a145     
n.（宝石或首饰的）小平面( facet的名词复数 )；（事物的）面；方面
参考例句：
  • The question had many facets. 这个问题是多方面的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • A fully cut brilliant diamond has 68 facets. 经过充分切刻的光彩夺目的钻石有68个小平面。 来自《简明英汉词典》
26 drawn MuXzIi     
v.拖，拉，拔出；adj.憔悴的，紧张的
参考例句：
  • All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
  • Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。
27 guzzling 20d7a51423fd709ed7efe548e2e4e9c7     
v.狂吃暴饮，大吃大喝( guzzle的现在分词 )
参考例句：
  • The kids seem to be guzzling soft drinks all day. 孩子们似乎整天都在猛喝汽水。
  • He's been guzzling beer all evening. 整个晚上他都在狂饮啤酒。 来自《简明英汉词典》
28 wailed e27902fd534535a9f82ffa06a5b6937a     
v.哭叫，哀号( wail的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
  • She wailed over her father's remains. 她对着父亲的遗体嚎啕大哭。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The women of the town wailed over the war victims. 城里的妇女为战争的死难者们痛哭。 来自辞典例句
29 retired Njhzyv     
adj.隐退的，退休的，退役的
参考例句：
  • The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
30 siesta Urayw     
n.午睡
参考例句：
  • Lots of people were taking a short siesta in the shade.午后很多人在阴凉处小睡。
  • He had acquired the knack of snatching his siesta in the most unfavourable circumstance.他学会了在最喧闹的场合下抓紧时间睡觉的诀窍。
31 lighting CpszPL     
n.照明，光线的明暗，舞台灯光
参考例句：
  • The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
  • The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。
32 extravagant M7zya     
adj.奢侈的；过分的；(言行等)放肆的
参考例句：
  • They tried to please him with fulsome compliments and extravagant gifts.他们想用溢美之词和奢华的礼品来取悦他。
  • He is extravagant in behaviour.他行为放肆。
33 wafted 67ba6873c287bf9bad4179385ab4d457     
v.吹送，飘送，（使）浮动( waft的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
  • The sound of their voices wafted across the lake. 他们的声音飘过湖面传到了另一边。
  • A delicious smell of freshly baked bread wafted across the garden. 花园中飘过一股刚出炉面包的香味。 来自《简明英汉词典》
34 expressive shwz4     
adj.表现的，表达…的，富于表情的
参考例句：
  • Black English can be more expressive than standard English.黑人所使用的英语可能比正式英语更有表现力。
  • He had a mobile,expressive,animated face.他有一张多变的，富于表情的，生动活泼的脸。
35 chestnut XnJy8     
n.栗树，栗子
参考例句：
  • We have a chestnut tree in the bottom of our garden.我们的花园尽头有一棵栗树。
  • In summer we had tea outdoors,under the chestnut tree.夏天我们在室外栗树下喝茶。
36 continental Zazyk     
adj.大陆的，大陆性的，欧洲大陆的
参考例句：
  • A continental climate is different from an insular one.大陆性气候不同于岛屿气候。
  • The most ancient parts of the continental crust are 4000 million years old.大陆地壳最古老的部分有40亿年历史。
37 gourmets 1e91aa9ec98153b060108e2a0895b9ca     
讲究吃喝的人，美食家( gourmet的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • The food here satisfies gourmands rather than gourmets. 这里的食物可以管饱却不讲究品质。
  • Here is another example: "Western gourmets are sold on Peking Duck." 这里再举一个例子：“西方美食家已对北京烤鸭极有兴趣。”
38 beseech aQzyF     
v.祈求，恳求?
参考例句：
  • I beseech you to do this before it is too late.我恳求你做做这件事吧，趁现在还来得及。
  • I beseech your favor.我恳求您帮忙。
39 larder m9tzb     
n.食物贮藏室，食品橱
参考例句：
  • Please put the food into the larder.请将您地食物放进食物柜内。
  • They promised never to raid the larder again.他们答应不再随便开食橱拿东西吃了。
40 decorative bxtxc     
adj.装饰的，可作装饰的
参考例句：
  • This ware is suitable for decorative purpose but unsuitable for utility.这种器皿中看不中用。
  • The style is ornate and highly decorative.这种风格很华丽，而且装饰效果很好。
41 lavished 7f4bc01b9202629a8b4f2f96ba3c61a8     
v.过分给予，滥施( lavish的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
  • I lavished all the warmth of my pent-up passion. 我把憋在心里那一股热烈的情感尽量地倾吐出来。 来自辞典例句
  • An enormous amount of attention has been lavished on these problems. 在这些问题上，我们已经花费了大量的注意力。 来自辞典例句
42 commiserated 19cbd378ad6355ad22fda9873408fe1b     
v.怜悯，同情( commiserate的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
  • She commiserated with the losers on their defeat. 她对失败的一方表示同情。
  • We commiserated with the losers. 我们对落败者表示同情。 来自《简明英汉词典》
43 exquisite zhez1     
adj.精美的；敏锐的；剧烈的，感觉强烈的
参考例句：
  • I was admiring the exquisite workmanship in the mosaic.我当时正在欣赏镶嵌画的精致做工。
  • I still remember the exquisite pleasure I experienced in Bali.我依然记得在巴厘岛所经历的那种剧烈的快感。
44 sumptuous Rqqyl     
adj.豪华的，奢侈的，华丽的
参考例句：
  • The guests turned up dressed in sumptuous evening gowns.客人们身着华丽的夜礼服出现了。
  • We were ushered into a sumptuous dining hall.我们被领进一个豪华的餐厅。
45 appreciation Pv9zs     
n.评价；欣赏；感谢；领会，理解；价格上涨
参考例句：
  • I would like to express my appreciation and thanks to you all.我想对你们所有人表达我的感激和谢意。
  • I'll be sending them a donation in appreciation of their help.我将送给他们一笔捐款以感谢他们的帮助。

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