9-13. So, faced with the Danish advance, Alfred did not risk open battle but harried the enemy.
【譯文】因此，面對丹麥人的進攻，阿爾弗雷德沒有貿然同敵人正面開戰(zhàn)，而是采用騷擾敵人。
【講解】faced with the Danish advance作時間狀語，修飾risk和harried。
【單詞和短語】
harry:（時常）襲擊；掠奪；搶劫；蹂躪（to keep attacking an enemy）。
9-14. He was constantly on the move, drawing the Danes after him.
【譯文】他一直在運動中，牽著敵人在后面跟著跑。
【講解】drawing the Danes after him作結果狀語，修飾was constantly on the move。
9-15. His patrols halted the raiding parties: hunger assailed the Danish army.
【譯文】他派出巡邏隊阻止敵人搶劫：因而饑餓侵襲著丹麥軍隊。
【講解】parties后的冒號引出說明語，表結果。
【單詞和短語】
halt：使停止前進；使停止；使終止（to prevent someone or something from continuing），
例如：
No one can halt the advance of history.
誰也阻擋不了歷史的前進。
assail：攻擊，襲擊（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.
【譯文】阿爾弗雷德這時發(fā)起一連串小規(guī)模進攻，結果不出一月丹麥人就投降了。
【講解】skirmishes后的破折號引出被強調的部分，這里的and表示結果。
【單詞和短語】
skirmish：小規(guī)模戰(zhàn)斗；小沖突（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 巷戰(zhàn)
a border skirmish 邊境沖突
9-17. The episode could reasonably serve as a unique epic of royal espionage!
【譯文】這段歷史可說是王室諜報活動中獨一無二的華章。
【單詞和短語】
epic：史詩，敘事詩（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.
荷馬的《伊利亞特》和彌爾頓的《失樂園》是史詩。
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
用間諜手段探出別國的軍事機密
Three persons have been arrested on espionage charges.
三個人被指控犯間諜活動罪而被捕
【譯文】因此，面對丹麥人的進攻，阿爾弗雷德沒有貿然同敵人正面開戰(zhàn)，而是采用騷擾敵人。
【講解】faced with the Danish advance作時間狀語，修飾risk和harried。
【單詞和短語】
harry:（時常）襲擊；掠奪；搶劫；蹂躪（to keep attacking an enemy）。
9-14. He was constantly on the move, drawing the Danes after him.
【譯文】他一直在運動中，牽著敵人在后面跟著跑。
【講解】drawing the Danes after him作結果狀語，修飾was constantly on the move。
9-15. His patrols halted the raiding parties: hunger assailed the Danish army.
【譯文】他派出巡邏隊阻止敵人搶劫：因而饑餓侵襲著丹麥軍隊。
【講解】parties后的冒號引出說明語，表結果。
【單詞和短語】
halt：使停止前進；使停止；使終止（to prevent someone or something from continuing），
例如：
No one can halt the advance of history.
誰也阻擋不了歷史的前進。
assail：攻擊，襲擊（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.
【譯文】阿爾弗雷德這時發(fā)起一連串小規(guī)模進攻，結果不出一月丹麥人就投降了。
【講解】skirmishes后的破折號引出被強調的部分，這里的and表示結果。
【單詞和短語】
skirmish：小規(guī)模戰(zhàn)斗；小沖突（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 巷戰(zhàn)
a border skirmish 邊境沖突
9-17. The episode could reasonably serve as a unique epic of royal espionage!
【譯文】這段歷史可說是王室諜報活動中獨一無二的華章。
【單詞和短語】
epic：史詩，敘事詩（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.
荷馬的《伊利亞特》和彌爾頓的《失樂園》是史詩。
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
用間諜手段探出別國的軍事機密
Three persons have been arrested on espionage charges.
三個人被指控犯間諜活動罪而被捕