A skeleton in the cupboard

vocabulary

1 conceal 隐藏，隐瞒

2 skeleton 骷髅

3 vivid 生动的

4 dramatic 令人激动的，扣人心弦的

5 ruin 毁坏

6 heroine 女主人公

7 fiction 小说

8 detective 侦探

9 unpack 取出

10 stack 堆放，排放

11 underclothes 内衣

12 petrify 使惊呆

13 sway 摇摆

14 unsympathetic 不表同情的，无动于衷的

15 drawer 抽屉

writting

1 The reader's hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands.

2 To varying derees, we all have secrets which we do not want even our closest friends to learn, but few of us have skeletons in the cupboard.

3 G showed me to the guestroom which, he said, was rarely used.