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# 拓展 · 沉默的敌人

### 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.
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：很少有国家会公开承认自己雇用了间谍。不过，偶尔有间谍落网，公众便有机会窥见政治幕后的一角。如今，间谍很少被枪决，更多的是接受审判、被判入狱。如果某个间谍足够重要，有时还会被交还给敌国，以换回己方落在对方手中、同样重要的间谍。很少有人有机会目睹这种交换，因为一切都在秘密中进行。
去年12月17日，一个寒冷的冬日清晨，一辆蓝色小汽车停在德国北部一座地方小城的桥上。三个穿着厚厚黑大衣的男人下了车，站在桥上等候，不停地探头往桥下看。十五个人从船上下来，抬头望向桥上。桥上的三人默默走下通往河岸的石阶，与船上来的人会合时，谁也没有说话。过了一会儿，汽艇驶离，三个男人回到桥上。但这时，穿黑大衣的只有两人，第三个人穿的是一件浅灰色夹克。即使有人一直看着这一幕，也未必会意识到：就在这个寒冷的清晨，两名高级间谍已经完成了交换。

* **admit officially**：正式承认；admit that + 内容；officially 限定正式立场，不等于私下不知道。

* **from time to time**：偶尔；不时；频率低于一直，不能说成持续发生。

* **gets a glimpse of**：短暂瞥见；只能看到一角或片刻，不表示全面了解。

* **these days**：近来；如今；表示当前一段时期，不是特定的这几天日期。

* **in exchange for**：交换；换取；区分交出和换回的对象。

* **have the opportunity to**：曾有机会……；have the opportunity to do；若未发生，要保留否定或限制。

* **in secret**：秘密地；强调不让外人知晓，不是内心默想。

* **dressed in**：穿着；in接穿着，as接扮演的角色。

* **kept on**：不断；继续；on后接动名词，强调反复或持续。

* **No words were spoken**：谁也没说话；no words 作被动主语，突出沉默；不要漏掉 no。

* **moved off**：开走；驶离；常用于车船离开停靠处，与 move in（搬入）不同。

* **a light grey jacket**：一件浅灰色夹克；light 在颜色前表示浅色，不是夹克重量轻；服装变化是课文线索。

* **had been exchanged**：此前已被交换；过去完成被动将交换放在旁观者事后理解之前。

#### 原文注释 · Few countries will admit officially that they employ spies.

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。

#### 原文注释 · On cold winter morning on December 17th last year, a small blue car stopped on a bridge in a provincial town in northern Germany.

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]

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