Part Four: Jack - Back from Winter Break
bizarre
/bɪˈzɑːr/
very unusual or strange
bother
to make the effort to do something
Why bother asking if you're not really interested?
如果你不是真的感兴趣，干吗费口舌打听呢？
something is up
if something is up, someone is feeling unhappy because they have problems, or there is something wrong in a situation
发生了某事，出了什么事
I could tell by the look on his face that something was up.
看他的脸色我就知道出事了。Is something up with Julie? She looks really miserable.
朱莉怎么了？她看上去愁眉苦脸的。What’s up? Why are you crying?
怎么了？你怎么在哭？
plague
/pleɪɡ/
a disease that causes death and spreads quickly to a large number of people
瘟疫
The plague caused 100,000 deaths in London alone in the 1600s.
17 世纪，鼠疫仅在伦敦一地就造成了10万人死亡。
payback
revenge
when you do something to make someone suffer because of something they have done to harm you
middle-of-the-road
middle-of-the-road ideas or opinions are not extreme, and so most people are likely to agree with them
fringe
/frɪndʒ/
on the fringe of something
在 …的边缘
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