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1.bugging andeavesdropping
2.Finicky miniature cameras and tape recorders
Even the most finicky eater will find something appetizing here. 即使是最挑剔的食客在这里也会找到让人胃口大开的美食。 
finikin A carper willcavil at anything. 爱挑剔的人对什么都挑剔。
There is no captious client but faulty product and service . 没有挑剔的客户,只有不完善的产品和服务。
Despite strong principles he was never censorious.虽然他原则性很强,可从来不会吹毛求疵。
He was fastidious about his appearance. 他非常讲究仪表。 


 

3. in the old days              Encrypted electronic communications
4.impregnable    
In those impregnable mountains, the guerrillas could hold out for years.
在那些易守难攻的大山里,游击队可以坚持很多年。
a message that is impregnably encoded
5.As with the Russians arrested last month in America
6. moving around inconspicuously
7.receiving money by undetectable means
8..these are ideal bugging and tracking devices,
9. but instantly arouses suspicion
10.even the most dull-witted watcher may infer that a clandestine   meeting is afoot
11.take a scuffed  passport,
12.Missing links, in fact, ......
13.espionage            Biometric passports are making matters worse
14. cisterns and waste bins in public lavatories
15. laborious
16. a beer bottle stuffed with money  
17.you should ponder what cameras and sensors may be hidden in the trees nearby.
18.illegal= espionage =spy
19. are drawing to a close
20. freelancers
21.lobster tails      cardboard boxes 
22. in violation of a Honduran regulation
23.They had fallen foul of the Lacey Act :  与拉西法案冲突
24.poaching elephants in Kenya  
25.Yet three of them got eight years apiece
26.stamp on it.        This created a ratchet effect:
27.America’s incarceration rate has quadrupled since 1970.
28.and the disparity has grown                  
                     arcane         arcanum (arcanums=arcana复数)
Death is a gruesome and terrible Arcanum. 
死亡是一个恐怖而令人毛骨悚然的奥秘。
29. always feud about the right level of punishment
30.should go to prison for long periods of time
31.seems increasingly counterproductive
32. even when the circumstances of a case cry out for it
33. prescription drugs
34.Many are incomprehensible      wrongdoer
35. threaten him with a gargantuan sentence
a marketing event of gargantuan proportions.
大规模的促销活动
36.pose a threat          small-time drug dealers
37.  prisons are now packed not only with thugs and rapists but also with petty thieves,
38.reintegrate       pointlessly vindictive gesture
I don't like Kevin—he's got a nasty vindictive streak in him. 我不喜欢凯文——他报复心(不好的特征)太重,叫人讨厌。 

39.give so many draconian powers to its government
The government has introduced a draconian regulation intended to gag the press. 
政府推出了一条旨在箝制新闻界言论的苛刻法例。
40.undesirable    Yet to quibble  over the exact criteria
I tried to avoid the back room where the undesirable elements were gathered. 
我尽力避开后屋,那里聚集了讨厌的人。   
Let's not quibble.我们别斤斤计较了。

It is most desirable that  they should both come. 他们俩都来,这是最好不过了。
41. the  asymmetry of information       lost faith in rating agencies
42.their insistence on the maxim: trust but verify  
43.In this regard      no panic,
44.Methuselah     anti-aging         “Epic of Gilgamesh
45.elixir        Strictly speaking
There is no elixir of life in the world. 世界上没有长生不老药。

46.Today, cosmetics companies dance around truth-in-advertising laws to
               imply that their creams and lotions can keep the years at bay.
47. leavened with the occasional iconoclastic scientist
Is it utopian to hope that such iconoclastic ideas will gain ground?...
希望如此有悖传统观念的思想会发展普及,这是不是太理想化了?

The first performance of the iconoclastic composition caused a tremendous hullabaloo in the audience. 
第一场打破传统习俗作品的表演在观众中引起了极大的骚动
48.a thoroughly disreputable field
49.draws readers down the blind alleys
50.tantalising =tantalizing
An intensive, creamy all-over body moisturizer with a tantalising, wild cherry fragrance.
 乳霜状的深层润肤霜,散发着诱人的樱桃香味。 

51.chronic inflammation

52. Insulin, a hormone that regulates the metabolism of glucose, also crops up.

53.Most intriguing of all is something that
54.a side-effect of respiration
55.propounds a relatively new theory that
56.designed to help animals endure hard times
57.centenarian       Proponents of this theory       supporter
58.in the hope of              The book’s tone is refreshing
59.  jarring           Hype is an   occupational    hazard of anti-ageing research
The media seems obsessed with hyping upindividuals or groups...
媒体似乎热衷于大肆吹捧某些个人或团体。
He felt the film was hyped up too much.
他觉得这部影片炒作过头了。
60.is just around the corner   
61.some modest improvement in life expectancy 
62. a big reduction in the diseases of old age, are indeed pharmaceutically possible
63. is on the verge of
64.Some religious leaders and self-appointed sages have offered
    a variety of portentous reasons for embracing decrepitude instead of fighting it
The building had a general air of decrepitude and neglect.
这座建筑看上去破旧失修,无人照管。
It can decelerate  decrepitude, brighten skin, fade mark and make skin white, tender and healthy.
 它可消除衰老皮肤,令其健康细腻;有淡化印迹,令皮肤变白、变嫩之功效。