现代大学英语精读第五册 课后答案(16)

3. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear.

My brain, which is as precise as a chemist's scales, began to work at high speed.

4. She was, to be sure, a girl who excited the emotions,but I was not one to let my heart rule my head. I wanted Polly for a shrewdly calculated,entirely cerebral reason.

She was beautiful and attractive enough to arouse the desires and passions of men, but I would not let feelings or emotions get the upper hand of reason or good sense.

5. She was not yet of pin-up proportions, but I felt sure that time would supply the lack.

She was not yet fully developed like pin-up girls but I felt sure that, given time, she would fill up and become just as glamorous.

6. In fact, she veered in the opposite direction.

In fact, she went in the opposite direction. This is a sarcastic way of saying that she was rather stupid.

7. If you were out of the picture,the field would be open. If you are no longer involved with her(If you stop dating her), others would be free to compete for her friendship.

8. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing,

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