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}  True eccentrics never deliberately set out to draw attention to themselves. They disregard social conventions without being conscious that they are doing anything extraordinary. This invariably wins them the love and respect of others, for they add colour to the dull routine of everyday life.

}  Deliberately：
on purpose

}  Disregard：不太看重
discard：    扔掉，抛弃

}  Conventions：

   Naming conventions (myVar)

   conventions指一种习惯。在Java 给Java 的变量命名的时候,比如说，我给他命名为 myVar。这里的Var 代表的是 valuable，V是大写的，m是小写的，中间没有空格。并不是你一定要这样的做，但是大家都这样做，那么这就是Java 的 naming conventions，Java 变量的命名习惯。

}  Invariably：vary→variable→variably→invariably

    invariably 总是这样的，总是不变的。

}  Up to the time of his death, Richard Colson was one of the most notable figures in our town. He was a shrewd and wealthy businessman, but most people in the town hardly knew anything about this side of his life. He was known to us all as Dickie and his eccentricity had become legendary long before he died.

}  There are two sides to every story.
 中文常说的一面之词，那么还有另一面

}  Legend: 
(地图map/图表chart)
在地图上是作为图例的意

   思，还有一个相进的词是             

    chart；右边的就是一个

    pie chart，因为他的形状

    比较像一个pie
legends of the Fall

    电影《秋日传奇》

}  Dickie disliked snobs intensely. Though he owned a large car, he hardly ever used it, preferring always to go on foot. Even when it was raining heavily, he refused to carry an umbrella. One day, he walked into an expensive shop after having been caught in a particularly heavy shower. He wanted to buy a $300 watch for his wife, but he was in such a bedraggled condition that an assistant refused to serve him.

}  Disliked：
I like to melt stuff and dislike stuff that doesn’t melt.
我喜欢烧东西，不喜欢不能烧的东西。这是一个从句。

}  Condition →
conditional offer

   有条件的接收。比如说你想转学，但是你正在念的这所学校学科积分还没出来，这时申请另一所学校，该学校可能会给你一个conditional off，就是有条件的接收你。
conditional probability  (Statistics)

    这是统计学上的用法。A和B两个事件，当A的概率计算出来了，要计算B的概率，这时就叫做conditional probability。

}  Dickie left the shop without a word and returned carrying a large cloth bag. As it was extremely heavy, he dumped it on the counter. The assistant asked him to leave, but Dickie paid no attention to him and requested to see the manager.

}  returned carrying a large cloth bag 分词伴随

}  dumped：
dumping

   在商科上是当倾销讲。

}  Recognizing who the customer was, the manager was most apologetic and reprimanded the assistant severely. When Dickie was given the watch, he presented the assistant with the cloth bag. It contained $300 in pennies.

}  apologetic：
Problematic
systematic
注意这种构词方式

}  severely：
SARS → Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
  

}  pennies：
1  分：Penny
5  分：Nickel
10分：Dime
25分：Quarter

}  He insisted on the assistant’s counting the money before he left — 30,000 pennies in all! On another occasion, he invited a number of important critics to see his private collection of modern paintings. This exhibition received a great deal of attention in the press, for though the pictures were supposed to be the work of famous artists, they had in fact been painted by Dickie.

}  supposed：
Supposed to be some kind of irony !
比如你是一个心理医生，但是最后得了心理疾病，这就是该说法。

}  It took him four years to stage this elaborate joke simply to prove that critics do not always know what they are talking about.

}  What are you talking about?

   这是口语中很常用的。你在说什么呢？
I have no idea/don’t know what you are talking about!
我不明白你在说什么。这种用法在口语里边是宾格直接加动名词。

}  I am talking about us getting back together.

   我说咱俩重新在一起。
I am talking about you and me getting divorced.

   我在谈论咱俩离婚的事情。这里要注意这种宾格后面直接加动名词的用法。