A Tale of Two Cities • Charles Dickens

Chương 10: Congratulatory

Đoạn 1/28 (Câu 1–5)

PHỤ ĐỀ TIẾNG ANH • CHẠM TỪNG TỪ ĐỂ TRA NGHĨACâu 1 / 5

From the dimly-lighted passages of the court, the last sediment of the human stew that had been boiling there all day, was straining off, when Doctor Manette, Lucie Manette, his daughter, Mr. Lorry, the solicitor for the defence, and its counsel, Mr. Stryver, stood gathered round Mr. Charles Darnay--just released--congratulating him on his escape from death.

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Bản thu âm chuẩn phát âm US English • Engvera Editorial

📖 Văn bản Đoạn đọc (5 câu)

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Câu 1

Câu 2

It would have been difficult by a far brighter light, to recognise in Doctor Manette, intellectual of face and upright of bearing, the shoemaker of the garret in Paris.

Câu 3

Yet, no one could have looked at him twice, without looking again: even though the opportunity of observation had not extended to the mournful cadence of his low grave voice, and to the abstraction that overclouded him fitfully, without any apparent reason.

Câu 4

While one external cause, and that a reference to his long lingering agony, would always--as on the trial--evoke this condition from the depths of his soul, it was also in its nature to arise of itself, and to draw a gloom over him, as incomprehensible to those unacquainted with his story as if they had seen the shadow of the actual Bastille thrown upon him by a summer sun, when the substance was three hundred miles away.

Câu 5

Only his daughter had the power of charming this black brooding from his mind.

🔍 Từ vựng Trọng tâm trong Đoạn (3 từ)

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incomprehensibleadjective

US /ˌɪŋˌkɑmprəˈhɛnsɪbəl/

incapable of being explained or accounted for

“While one external cause, and that a reference to his long lingering agony, would always--as on the trial--evoke this condition from the depths of his soul, it was also in its nature to arise of itself, and to draw a gloom over him, as incomprehensible to those unacquainted with his story as if they had seen the shadow of the actual Bastille thrown upon him by a summer sun, when the substance was three hundred miles away.”

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observationnoun

US /ˌɑːbzərˈveɪʃən/

the act or opportunity of watching and noticing someone carefully

“Yet, no one could have looked at him twice, without looking again: even though the opportunity of observation had not extended to the mournful cadence of his low grave voice, and to the abstraction that overclouded him fitfully, without any apparent reason.”

✓ Engvera

opportunitynoun

US /ˌɑːpərˈtuːnəti/

a suitable time or situation that makes it possible to do something

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🎭 Luyện nói Shadowing

Narrator:From the dimly-lighted passages of the court, the last sediment of the human stew that had been boiling there all day, was straining off, when Doctor Manette, Lucie Manette, his daughter, Mr. Lorry, the solicitor for the defence, and its counsel, Mr. Stryver, stood gathered round Mr. Charles Darnay--just released--congratulating him on his escape from death.

Speaker:It would have been difficult by a far brighter light, to recognise in Doctor Manette, intellectual of face and upright of bearing, the shoemaker of the garret in Paris.