练习材料：[Day 2785 2022-05-11]

L52-2: Mud is mud

Harryused to consider it a great joke to go into expensive cosmetic shops and makeoutrageous requests for goods that do not exist. He would invent fanciful nameson the spot. On entering a shop, he would ask for a new perfume called 'ScentedShadow' or for 'insoluble bath cubes'. If a shop assistant told him she had notheard of it, he would pretend to be considerably put out. He loved to be toldthat one of his imaginary products was temporarily out of stock and he wouldfaithfully promise to call again at some future date, but of course he never did. How Harrymanaged to keep a straight face during these performances is quite beyondme. Harry does not need to be prompted to explain how he bought his preciousbottle of mud.One day, he went to an exclusive shop in London and asked for"Myrolite". The -shop assistant looked puzzled and Harry repeated theword, slowly stressing each syllable.

知识笔记：cosmetic,outrageous,fanciful,enter,perfume,insoluble,cube,imaginary,temporary,promise,future,straight,prompt,precious,bottle,exclusive,stress,syllable,发音;cosmetic,outrageous,fanciful,insoluble,prompt,exclusive,syllable,on the spot,put out,out of stock,keep a straight face,imaginary,temporary,词义。

练习感悟：1h14’。