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[00:03.20]24 "家丑"

[00:06.40]Listen to the tape then answer the question below.

[00:13.71]听录音,然后回答以下问题.

[00:21.03]Who was Sebastian?

[00:23.97]谁是塞巴斯蒂安?

[00:26.91]We often read in novels how a seemingly respectable person or family

[00:30.38]在小说中,我们经常读到一个表面上受人尊重的人物或家族

[00:33.85]has some terrible secret

[00:35.74]有着许多骇人听闻的秘密.

[00:37.62]which has been concealed from strangers for years.

[00:39.94]这些秘密是不为人所知的

[00:42.27]The English language

[00:43.86]英语中

[00:45.45]possesses a vivid saying to describe this sort of situation

[00:48.42]有一个生动的说法来形容这种情况

[00:51.38]The terrible secret is called 'a skeleton in the cupboard'.

[00:54.31]惊人的秘密被称作"柜中骷髅".

[00:57.23]At some dramatic moment in the story,

[00:59.59]在小说的某个戏剧性时刻,

[01:01.94]the terrible secret becomes known and a reputation is ruined.

[01:05.18]可怕的秘密泄露出来,接着便是某人的声誉扫地.

[01:08.41]The reader's hair stands on end

[01:10.39]读者不禁会毛骨悚然,

[01:12.36]when he reads in the final pages of the novel

[01:14.64]当读者读到小说最后几页时,