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 [paɪnt], roughly the amount IN A TYPICAL DONATION, from a donor’s VEIN to the recipient is intricate [ˈɪntrɪkət] and fascinating. SO IS the history of blood science, FROM THE EXISTENCE OF different types to the medicinal use of LEECHES [lɪtʃs]（蚂蟥）

4. ALLEVIATING BLOOD CONGESTION

5. to LIFESAVING TREATMENTS for major injuries.

6. SURVEYS the trials, errors and happenstance [ˈhæpənstæns] that SHAPED BLOOD’S ROLE IN MODERN MEDICINE.

偶然事件

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

a mixture or variety of different things； 详细叙述某事；发火花的；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.

（通常构成复合词） 充满（某种不良事物）的；贫民窟

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. [ˈɑ:dnt] 炽热的

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 挤满

14. a school DROPOUT from rural India.

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

16. There are villains, too.

[ˈvɪlən] 恶棍; （小说、戏剧等中的） 反面人物

17. tens of thousands of HAEMOPHILIACS [ˌhi:məˈfɪliæk] WERE INFECTED WITH HIV and Hepatitis [ˌhepəˈtaɪtɪs] C from TAINTED PLASMA [ˈplæzmə], the PROTEIN-RICH yellow liquid left after RED BLOOD CELLS are SIFTED OUT.

血友病患者; 肝炎; 血浆

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” /ˈbaɪɒpsi/, 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 [ˈraɪətəs] COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL

狂乱的; 成长纪事小说

27. “The Rotters’ Club”,

[ˈrɒtə(r)] 无赖

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.

（小说等） 分期连载的一部分;

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

33. WORK ON a COLOSSAL [kəˈlɒsl] 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

误解

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； 着手，开始做某事; 煽动叛乱者

38. fulminator

['fʌlmɪneɪtə] 怒喝者

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

轻视；回忆

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 [əʊˈpaɪn] on Brexit.

v. 认为

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

摧毁

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; [səˈtɪrɪkl]; 尖锐的评论; a box that someone stands on to make a speech in public; [ˈspi:tʃɪfaɪɪŋ]; 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

[kənˈvʌlsɪv] 起痉挛的

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.

[ˌtrædʒɪ'kɒmɪk] 悲喜剧的; 滑落