PART 1 Sentences
1. West Lake was to Hangchow as the eyes to a beauty's face.
2. Su Tungpo plunged into his work.
"plunge into" 在这本书里出现了多次。前文中有：
From that year on, China was to be plunged into a wave of new social experiments amid political storms whose concussions were felt to the very end of the Sung dynasty.
He predicted that with this trend o£ affairs, the country would soon be plunged into chaos.
3. The district magistrates were hard pressed by their superiors above and by the clerks below who thrived on the pasture ground of uncollected debts as sheep thrive on the meadows.
4. The outstanding debts with their multiplying interest hung like a stone around the people's neck.
实用句型：
1. There was one commissioner by the name of Ma Chen.
2. Almost two years elapsed, and still nothing was done about it.
3. This was the root of all the evils.
4. Su struck upon the idea o£ making use of them to build the long embankment.
5. When Su Tungpo arrived at the capital, he was greeted with a volley of attacks and criticisms.
PART 2 Expressions
1. The people of the city lining the streets to look at this strange famous scholar.
line:(v.) to from rows along the sides of sth
Crowds lined the route to the palace.
a tree-lined avenue
The street was lined with small shops.
2. There had been a failure of crops in the year he arrived.
failure在这里是指 an occasion when crops do not grow or produce food, for example because of bad weather
a series of crop failures
3. As usual, it was passed from the premier's office to the ministry of the interior with the request that a report be made on it within a fortnight.
fortnight: [ˈfɔ:tnaɪt] two weeks
a fortnight's holiday
a fortnight ago
中世纪英文写法是 "fourtenight” 也就是 fourteen nights (14个夜晚，即两周)，后简化成fortnight
fortnight vs. fortnightly: 后者是 a. happening every fortnight or once a fornight
We used to dread my uncle's fortnightly visits.
4.The seven letters formed one passionate and impatient clamor for help.
clamor/ clamour: （n.） 喧哗声；大声的要求或抗议
He shouted over the rising clamor of voices.
Trouillot disregarded the growing public clamor for her resignation.
clamor 也可以做动词
The audience cheered, clamoring for more.
5. Chia Yi is only concerned with private vengeance.
vengeance: [ˈvendʒəns] a violent or harmful action that sb does to punish sb for harming them or their family SYN revenge
a desire for vengeance. a vow for vengeance, an act of vengeance
with a vengeance: with great force or more effort than before
The music started up again with a vengeance.
6. The government's files were a skein of tangled, unsettled confusion.
skein: (n.)（纱，线等）一绞
a skein of: literary, a complicated series of things that are related to each other
a skein of lies
7. It is not possible to go through all the quibbling over technicalities which enraged Su Tungpo.
quibble about/ over sth: [ˈkwɪbl] to argue about small unimportant details
Let's not quibble over minor details.
类似表达: wrangle (with sb) (over/about sth)
8. debts owed on failure to pay according to a decree ordering repayment in ten semiannual installments
semiannual: 半年的；每半年的
季度报告: quarterly reports; 半年度报告: semiannual reports
installment/ instalment: 分期付款
They're letting me pay for the washing machine by monthly instalments.
installment vs. installation 后者是 install的名词形式，“安装”
