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# 沉默的敌人

## 课文学习台 {#study}

### 第1段

Few countries will admit officially that they employ spies. However, from time to time, a spy is caught and the public sometimes gets a glimpse of what is going on behind the political scenes. Spies are rarely shot these days. They are frequently tried and imprisoned. If a spy is important enough, he is sometimes handed back to an enemy country in exchange for an equally important spy whom the enemy have caught. Few people have the opportunity to witness such as exchanges, for they are carried out in secret.

中文理解：鲜有国家会官方承认使用间谍。不过，间谍时有被捕，而大众得以一瞥政治幕后发生了什么。现如今很少击毙间谍了，更常见的是审理并投入大牢。如果某位间谍非常重要，通常可以用来交换被敌国所抓捕的同等重要的我方间谍。很少有人有机会目睹这类间谍交换，因为这些都是秘密进行的。

* **from time to time**：到……的时候 / 偶尔 / 一直 / 同时；时间词帮助组织先后关系，但不能仅凭一个时间词机械决定时态。

* **carried out**：执行 / 继续；out 强调把任务实施，on 强调继续。

#### 这一段的读法与用法

注释：①employ = provide work for。②from time to time = now and again。③gets a glimpse of = is able to see briefly。④rarely = seldom。⑤frequently = often。⑥handed = given。⑦witness = see。\[1]behind the scene = secretly rather than publicly，这里加了个 political 在里面。of what 是what 所引导的从句作介词of 的宾语，这里只是定语里面的细分。

### 第2段

On cold winter morning on December 17th last year, a small blue car stopped on a bridge in a provincial town in northern Germany. Three men dressed in heavy black coats get out and stood on the bridge. While they waited there, they kept on looking over the side. Fifteen men got out of the boat and looked up at the bridge. The men on the bridge silently walked down the stone steps leading to the river-bank. No words were spoken when they met the men from the boat. After a while, the motor-boat moved off and three men returned to the bridge. Now, only two of them were wearing black coats. The third was dressed in a light grey jacket. Anyone who had been watching the scene might not have realized that two master spies had been exchanged on that cold winter morning.

中文理解：去年12月17日，在寒冷的冬天早晨，一辆蓝色小汽车停在德国北部一个外省城镇的桥上。三名穿着黑色厚外套的人下车，站在桥上。他们等着的时候，往桥边张望。15个人从船上下来，望向桥上。桥上的几个人默默走下通往河岸的石阶，与船上下来的人会合， 不发一语。不多久，摩托小船开走了，三个人回到了桥上，可只有2个人穿着黑色外套了。另一个人穿着浅灰色夹克。谁要是在场看到了这一幕，可能还没意识到，那个寒冷的冬天早晨交换了两个大间谍。

#### 这一段的读法与用法

注释：\[1]这里的情况是15个人从船上下来，到了岸边，并望向桥上的人，接着下一句则交代桥上的几个人沿着石阶下到岸上。他们一行人在岸上交换了间谍，文中故意只写“After a while”，这一会儿的功夫，已经完成了双方确认间谍身份，进行交换等一系列行动。

\[语法符号讲解] \[2]who 引导一个定语从句修饰anyone，定语从句为主谓宾结构。后面有一个that 引导的宾语从句作realize 的宾语，该从句一直到句末，故横线包括点句号。

\[本文修订日期：2022年1月31日]

## 学完这一课

保留原段的推进关系，换成自己的经历，写或说一段四五句的话。

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