(单词翻译:单击)
重点词汇词组
1.profession
①（信念、观点或感情的）公开表示（此为文中含义）
例：his professions of love 他的爱情表白
②职业；行业
【常见搭配】
①sb is sth by profession 某人的职业是……
例：They're both doctors by profession.
他们两人的职业都是医生。
②enter/go into/leave a profession 从事/离开某行业
例：The report notes that 40 percent of lawyers entering the profession are women.
报告指出，从事这一行业的律师中有40%是女性。
2.diffuseness 扩散（在文中指扩散问候，也就是问候周到）
【同根词】diffuse v. 扩散，弥漫 adj. 扩散的，弥漫的；难解的，冗长的
【常见搭配】
①diffuse knowledge 传播知识
②a diffuse light 漫射光
③diffuse from... into... 从某处扩散到某处
例：Oxygen diffuses from the lungs into the bloodstream.
氧气从肺部扩散到血液中。
3.pile up 积累，堆放
例：Problems were piling up at work.
工作中的问题越积越多。
【相关单词】合起来为名词pileup，意为“追尾；堆积”
例：A five-car pileup slowed traffic.
五辆汽车连环相撞导致通行速度减慢。
4.at one's desire 按照某人的意愿
【相关俚语】sb's heart's desire 心之所向；心上人
例：When she agreed to marry him he felt he had achieved his heart's desire.
当她答应嫁给他时，他感觉终于得到了自己的心上人。
【常见搭配】desire for sth 对……的渴望
例：There is a strong desire for peace among the people.
人们有着对和平的强烈渴望。
长难句分析
The first half hour was spent in piling up the fire, lest she should suffer from the change of room; and she removed at his desire to the other side of the fireplace, that she might be farther from the door.
解：主谓宾+目的状语从句+主谓宾+目的状语从句
析：该句是分号连接的两个独立句，第一句中，lest作为从属连词引导目的状语，表否定，意为“以免，唯恐”；第二句中，that单独出现引导目的状语从句，意为“以便”，比较考验预感判断。
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