1、第 PAGE5 頁 共 NUMPAGES5 頁胡敏讀故事記單詞第12篇WORDpetty a.1.小的，瑣碎的，不重要的 2.氣量小的，心胸狹窄的pharmacy n.1.藥房，藥店 2.藥劑學，配藥physiological a.生理的，生理學的picket n.1.罷工時的糾察隊，糾察隊員 2.戒備隊，戒備哨 vt.1.在設(shè)置糾察線 2.派擔任糾察，布置警衛(wèi)戒備 vi.擔任糾察或戒備哨picturesque a.1.美麗如畫的 2.語言生動的，繪聲繪色的pier n.伸入水域的碼頭，突堤piety n.忠誠，虔敬pilgrim n.1.朝圣者 2.在國外的旅行者，遨游者pineapple

2、n.鳳梨，菠蘿pinpoint vt.1.準確描繪，確定，確認 2.準確地確定的位置 n.針尖，尖端 a.非常準確的pirate n.1.非法盜印或復制者，進犯版權(quán)者 2.海盜 vt.1.以海盜的方式搶劫，搶掠 2.盜用，非法盜印或復制pistol n.piston n.活塞pitfall n.1.隱患，易犯的錯誤 2.陷阱，圈套pizza n.意大利餡餅，比薩餅plague n.1.瘟疫，鼠疫 2.災(zāi)難，禍害 vt.使痛苦或難受，給造成困難或費事plank n.1.厚木板條 2.政綱條目，政策要點plaster n.1.灰漿，灰泥 2.石膏 3.橡皮膏，膏藥 vt.1.在上抹灰泥，厚厚地涂抹

3、 2.粘貼于，張貼于，貼滿plateau n.1.高原 2.上升后的穩(wěn)定時期或狀態(tài)plausible a.似有道理的，似乎正確的，貌似可信的plea n.1.懇求，懇求 2.抗辯，辯論，辯護 3.借口，托辭False Piety It was another day on the picket line. Today we were in front of a pharmacy that supposedly sold drugs tested on animals to increase peoples physiological tolerance for pain. Well that

4、was plausible, but no one ever heard our pleas, they just went from one petty picket line to another unable to pinpoint an overall theme to our actions. I was at a plateau on the whole picket line thing when we met a man who said that we could have a greater impact by pirating ships, using pistols,

5、and doing something more drastic. This would get more attention as well as our faces plastered all over the TV screen and newspapers. We decided to give it a try. He never mentioned any pitfalls.Our first and only action was on a picturesque pier in Southern California. After eating our fill of pizz

6、a and pineapples we headed to the fishing boat that we were sure caught fish and also killed dolphins in the process. Our plan was to wreck the pistons of the boat engine and then make the captain symbolically walk the plank. But we were pilgrims in this new country of activism and the police fell u

7、pon us like the plague before we had done any damage at all.It also turned out that the man who told us to do this was an undercover policeman. All of his false piety was simply a trap to get us to do something crazy so that he could arrest us. And we had fallen for it all.假裝忠誠 糾察線進入了新的一天。今天我們是在一家藥店

8、前面，據(jù)說這家藥店買的藥在動物身上做過實驗，是用來增強人們?nèi)淌芴弁吹纳聿拍艿摹＿@聽起來似乎有些道理，但沒有人聽我們懇求，他們只是從一條小的糾察線走到另外一條小的糾察線，不能對我們行動的主題作出準確判斷。在整個糾察線里面，我處于一種穩(wěn)定狀態(tài)，這時我們碰到了一個人，他說通過以海盜方式搶劫船只、使用、做一些更加極端的事情我們就可以有更大的影響，這樣會吸引更多的人注意，還會使我們的面部出如今電視屏幕上和報紙上。我們決定嘗試一下。他只字未提容易犯的錯誤。我們的首次同時也是唯一的一次行動是在南加利弗尼亞一個風景如畫的碼頭。吃飽比薩餅和菠蘿之后，我們向一條漁船走去，我們相信它能抓到魚并且還能在捕魚的過程中殺死海豚。我們的方案是破壞船上發(fā)動機的活塞，然后讓船長象征性