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Last week, at a dinner party, the hostessnoun.女主人 asked me to sit next to Mrs Rumbold. Mrs Rumbold was a large, unsmiling lady in a tightadj.紧的 black dress. She did not evenadv.甚至 look up when I took my seat beside her. Her eyes were fixedverb.使固定 on her platenoun.板, and in a short time, she was busy eating. I triedverb.尝试 to make conversationnoun.会话.
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