1. villages in Nepal where women are banished（放逐）

2. EVERY THREE seconds someone in the world RECEIVES A TRANSFUSION OF A STRANGER’S BLOOD.

3. The JOURNEY of a pint [pa?nt], roughly the amount IN A TYPICAL DONATION, from a donor’s VEIN to the recipient is intricate [??ntr?k?t] and fascinating. SO IS the history of blood science, FROM THE EXISTENCE OF different types to the medicinal use of LEECHES [l?t?s]（螞蟥）

4. ALLEVIATING BLOOD CONGESTION

5. to LIFESAVING TREATMENTS for major injuries.

6. SURVEYS the trials, errors and happenstance [?h?p?nst?ns] that SHAPED BLOOD’S ROLE IN MODERN MEDICINE.

偶然事件

7. Her narrative is a lively mélange? /me??lɑ?n?/ of stories about people, culture and science, recounted in sparkling prose.

a mixture or variety of different things； 詳細敘述某事柑贞；發(fā)火花的抠艾；散文

8. Ms George TOURS PLACES AS VARIED AS Europe’s biggest BLOOD-PROCESSING facility (near Bristol), an operating theatre in London, an HIV-RIDDEN SLUM in South Africa and remote villages in Nepal where women are banished to OUTDOOR SHEDS when they MENSTRUATE.

（通常構(gòu)成復合詞） 充滿（某種不良事物）的屋休；貧民窟

9. The book’s characters come from all walks of life.

When people talk about walk(s) of life, they are referring to different types of jobs and different levels of society

10. ardent volunteers. [?ɑ:dnt] 熾熱的

11. who in 1921 SET UP THE FIRST REGISTER OF voluntary BLOOD DONORS in their home.

12. Their RECRUITS DASHED TO hospitals when someone needed a TRANSFUSION.

13. packed with blood-filled milk bottles—A COG IN THE WHEELS of one of the world’s first national blood banks.

be packed with 擠滿

14. a school DROPOUT from rural India.

15. He invented a LOW-COST manufacturing process for SANITARY PADS(衛(wèi)生巾), which women in developing countries often STRUGGLE TO AFFORD.

16. There are villains, too.

[?v?l?n] 惡棍; （小說钾唬、戲劇等中的） 反面人物

17. tens of thousands of HAEMOPHILIACS [?hi:m??f?li?k] WERE INFECTED WITH HIV and Hepatitis [?hep??ta?t?s] C from TAINTED PLASMA [?pl?zm?], the PROTEIN-RICH yellow liquid left after RED BLOOD CELLS are SIFTED OUT.

血友病患者; 肝炎; 血漿

18. A page-turning chapter DELVES INTO the workings—and ethics—of the plasma business, which is dominated by four companies.

to try hard to find out more information about something

19. earns nearly as much from exporting it as from medium-sized cars.

20. it allows people to be paid for the stuff.

21. At the same time blood is becoming even more of a CENTREPIECE in medicine.

22. “Liquid BIOPSIES” /?ba??psi/, which can diagnose cancers

the removal and examination of tissue from the body of somebody who is ill/sick, in order to find out more about their disease

23. are among the most PROMISING recent medical developments.

24. “Our knowledge of blood is WIDE YET UNFINISHED,”

25. “Nine Pints” is a SUPERB tour of what is already known about the WONDROUS LIQUID that PULSES THROUGH each body, and what still AWAITS DISCOVERY.

strange, beautiful and impressive

26. RIOTOUS [?ra??t?s] COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL

狂亂的; 成長紀事小說

27. “The Rotters’ Club”,

[?r?t?(r)] 無賴

28. followed a group of boys NAVIGATING the trials of school and adolescence

29. caught up with them as OLDER BUT NOT NECESSARILY WISER 40-somethings, and CHRONICLED THEIR MID-LIFE CRISES AND EXPLOITS in the first decade of this century.

30. CARRIED A NOTE OF FINALITY

31. has returned with a third INSTALMENT that ranges from 2010 to the present.

（小說等） 分期連載的一部分;

32. “Middle England” sees the fictional circle widening to incorporate a richer, more diverse CAST GRAPPLING WITH both personal and political ANGST [??st]. 焦慮

33. WORK ON a COLOSSAL [k??l?sl] musical and literary project;

34. OVER THE COURSE OF EIGHT YEARS Benjamin finds a new flame, winds up on the Man Booker prize longlist, and comes to realise where and with whom he would prefer to see out his days.

to be in a particular place or situation not because you choose to, but because of other things that have happened

A list of selected names or things from which a shortlist is to be compiled.

35. For her part, Sophie MAKES A NAME FOR HERSELF professionally, but ROWS with Ian, her husband, about Brexit; some MISCONSTRUED REMARKS to a student JEOPARDISE HER CAREER.

to become famous or respected by a lot of people

row: have a quarrel

誤解

36. Secondary characters supply POLITICAL BITE.

37. a LEFT-LEANING journalist who writes articles from his Chelsea MANSION and EMBARKS ON a relationship with a Conservative MP—MUCH TO THE DISGUST OF his FIREBRAND daughter, Coriander.

宅第镰吆； 著手蝎抽，開始做某事; 煽動叛亂者

38. fulminator

['f?lm?ne?t?] 怒喝者

39. SCORNS POLITICAL CORRECTNESS and HARKS BACK TO a FOREIGNER-FREE England.

輕視励翼；回憶

40. Once again Mr Coe ARTFULLY BLENDS FICTION WITH FACT.

41. the London RIOTS of 2011;

42. PASS COMMENT ON the opening ceremony of the Olympics of 2012,

43. many more opine [???pa?n] on Brexit.

v. 認為

44. is DEVASTATED by the murder of Jo Cox, a politician killed during the REFERENDUM CAMPAIGN.

摧毀

45. attend “Post-Brexit counselling”.

46. This contemporary Britain is FRACTURED AND INTOLERANT, A FAR CRY FROM THE “COHESIVE, UNITED, CONSENSUAL PLACE” that Benjamin remembers FROM HIS CHILDHOOD.

47. At times Mr Coe delivers HAMMER-BLOWS instead of his TRADEMARK SATIRICAL SWIPES, and SOAPBOX SPEECHIFYING instead of dialogue.

a very hard hit; [s??t?r?kl]; 尖銳的評論; a box that someone stands on to make a speech in public; [?spi:t??fa???]; the use of speeches that sound important but are really boring or useless

48. His brilliantly funny SET PIECES are more subtle and successful; similarly, he is more incisive when TRACING GRADUAL DECLINE rather than CONVULSIVE CHANGE.

a self-contained passage or section of a novel, play, film, or piece of music arranged in an elaborate or conventional pattern for maximum effect

[k?n?v?ls?v] 起痙攣的

49. Although the narrative FLITS BETWEEN Birmingham AND London, this is no tale of two cities.

50. COMPELLING state-of-the-nation novel, FULL OF LIGHT AND SHADE, which vividly CHARTS modern Britain’s tragicomic SLIDE.

[?tr?d??'k?m?k] 悲喜劇的; 滑落