A Tale of Two Cities • Charles Dickens

Chương 11: The Jackal

Đoạn 1/24 (Câu 1–5)

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

Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard.

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Câu 1

Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard.

Câu 2

So very great is the improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate statement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow in the course of a night, without any detriment to his reputation as a perfect gentleman, would seem, in these days, a ridiculous exaggeration.

Câu 3

The learned profession of the law was certainly not behind any other learned profession in its Bacchanalian propensities; neither was Mr. Stryver, already fast shouldering his way to a large and lucrative practice, behind his compeers in this particular, any more than in the drier parts of the legal race.

Câu 4

A favourite at the Old Bailey, and eke at the Sessions, Mr. Stryver had begun cautiously to hew away the lower staves of the ladder on which he mounted.

Câu 5

Sessions and Old Bailey had now to summon their favourite, specially, to their longing arms; and shouldering itself towards the visage of the Lord Chief Justice in the Court of King’s Bench, the florid countenance of Mr. Stryver might be daily seen, bursting out of the bed of wigs, like a great sunflower pushing its way at the sun from among a rank garden-full of flaring companions.

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exaggerationnoun

US /ɪɡˌzædʒəˈreɪʃən/

a statement that represents something as greater or more extreme than it really is

“So very great is the improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate statement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow in the course of a night, without any detriment to his reputation as a perfect gentleman, would seem, in these days, a ridiculous exaggeration.”

✓ Engvera

countenancenoun

US /ˈkaʊntənəns/

a person's face or the expression shown on it

“Sessions and Old Bailey had now to summon their favourite, specially, to their longing arms; and shouldering itself towards the visage of the Lord Chief Justice in the Court of King’s Bench, the florid countenance of Mr. Stryver might be daily seen, bursting out of the bed of wigs, like a great sunflower pushing its way at the sun from among a rank garden-full of flaring companions.”

✓ Engvera

cautiouslyadverb

US /ˈkɔːʃəsli/

carefully in order to avoid danger, error, or unwanted attention

“A favourite at the Old Bailey, and eke at the Sessions, Mr. Stryver had begun cautiously to hew away the lower staves of the ladder on which he mounted.”

✓ Engvera

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Narrator:Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard.

Speaker:So very great is the improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate statement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow in the course of a night, without any detriment to his reputation as a perfect gentleman, would seem, in these days, a ridiculous exaggeration.