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③ Sport (race) 让步赛
a disadvantage imposed on a superior competitor in sports such as golf, horse racing, and competitive sailing in order to make the chances more equal.

又想当然地以为是成障碍赛了…

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coax
• arrange (something) carefully into a particular shape or position:
her lovely hair had been coaxed into ringlets.

英语真可怕。没查字典，把字面义左拧拧右拧拧硬是塞进译文里了，自己还觉得能说得通……赶紧改……

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fret (sea-fret)

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play
• (of a fountain or similar source of water) emit a stream of gently moving water: a fountain played in the courtyard.

好险…………差点又错了

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trick cyclist = (Brit. Slang) psychiatrist

语源不是特别确定。可能是个 rhyming slang, see
http://www.wordwizard.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?t=23713

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这个British English太容易出错了…………

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tattoo

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humour
verb
comply with the wishes of (someone) in order to keep them content, however unreasonable such wishes might be.
"she was always humouring him to prevent trouble"

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