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9-13. So, faced with the Danish advance, Alfred did not risk open battle but harried the enemy.
【译文】因此，面对丹麦人的进攻，阿尔弗雷德没有贸然同敌人正面开战，而是采用骚扰敌人。
【讲解】faced with the Danish advance作时间状语，修饰risk和harried。
【单词和短语】
harry:(时常)袭击;掠夺;抢劫;蹂躏(to keep attacking an enemy)。
9-14. He was constantly on the move, drawing the Danes after him.
【译文】他一直在运动中，牵着敌人在后面跟着跑。
【讲解】drawing the Danes after him作结果状语，修饰was constantly on the move。
9-15. His patrols halted the raiding parties: hunger assailed the Danish army.
【译文】他派出巡逻队阻止敌人抢劫：因而饥饿侵袭着丹麦军队。
【讲解】parties后的冒号引出说明语，表结果。
【单词和短语】
halt：使停止前进;使停止;使终止(to prevent someone or something from continuing)，
例如：
No one can halt the advance of history.
谁也阻挡不了历史的前进。
assail：攻击，袭击(to attack someone or something violently)，
例如：
assail a fort 攻要塞
9-16. Now Alfred began a long series of skirmishes—and within a month the Danes had surrendered.
【译文】阿尔弗雷德这时发起一连串小规模进攻，结果不出一月丹麦人就投降了。
【讲解】skirmishes后的破折号引出被强调的部分，这里的and表示结果。
【单词和短语】
skirmish：小规模战斗;小冲突(a fight between small groups of soldiers, ships etc, especially one that happens away from the main part of a battle)，
例如：
a street skirmish 巷战
a border skirmish 边境冲突
9-17. The episode could reasonably serve as a unique epic of royal espionage!
【译文】这段历史可说是王室谍报活动中独一无二的华章。
【单词和短语】
epic：史诗，叙事诗(a book, poem, or film tells a long story about brave actions and exciting events)，
例如：
Homer’s Iliad and Milton’s Paradise Lost are epics.
荷马的《伊利亚特》和弥尔顿的《失乐园》是史诗。
espionage：(the activity of secretly finding out secret information and giving it to a country’s enemies or a company’s competitors)，
例如：
use espionage to find out other countries’ military secrets
用间谍手段探出别国的军事机密
Three persons have been arrested on espionage charges.
三个人被指控犯间谍活动罪而被捕 |
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