新概念英语第四册：Lesson9 Royal espionage 【篇一】
Royal espionage
王室谍报活动
What important thing did King Alfred learn when he penetrated the Danish camp of Guthrum?
Alfred the Great acted his own spy, visiting Danish camps disguid as a minstrel. In tho days wandering minstrels were welcome everywhere. They were not fighting men, and
their harp was their passport. Alfred had learned many of their ballads in his youth, and could vary his programme with acrobatic tricks and simple conjuring.
While Alfreds little army slowly began to gather at Athelney, the king himlf t out to penetrate the camp of Guthrum, the commander of the Danish invaders. There had ttled down for the winter at Chippenham： thither Alfred went. He noticed at once that discipline was slack： the Danes had the lf-confidence of conquerors, and their curity precautions were casual. They lived well, on the proceeds of raids on neighbouring regions. There they collected women as well as food and drink, and a life of ea had made them soft.
女士风衣
Alfred stayed in the camp a week before he returned to Athelney. The force there asmbled was trivial compared with the Danish horde. But Alfred had deduced that the Danes were no longer fit for prolonged battle： and that their
commissariat had no organization, but depended on irregular raids.
So, faced with the Danish advance, Alfred did not risk open battle but harried the enemy. He was constantly on the move, drawing the Danes after him. His patrols halted the raiding parties： hunger assailed the Danish army. Now Alfred began a long ries of skirmishes -- and within a month the Danes had surrendered. The episode could reasonably rve as a unique epic of royal espionage!
BERNARD NEWMAN Spies in Britain
【篇二】
New words and expressions 生词和短语
痛不欲生的意思
espionage
n. 间谍活动
生二胎的坏处
Alfred
公元871-899 年间任英国国王电源并联
Danish
adj. 丹麦的，丹麦人的，丹麦语的
minstrel
n. 中世纪的吟游歌手
wandering
adj. 漫游的
harp实木多层地板
n. 坚琴休假式治疗
ballad
n. 民歌女孩英文怎么说
acrobatic
adj. 杂技的
conjuring
n. 魔术
Athelney
n. 阿塞尔纳(英国一个小岛) Chippenham
n. 切本哈姆(英国一个城市) thither
adv. 向那里
Dane
n. 丹麦人
slack
adj. 涣散的
conqueror
n. 征服者
高血压常用药物casual
adj. 马虎的，随便的
