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以下是小编节选自《ACT学习攻略阅读》中的一段文章，小编就其中的疑难词及复杂的句子加以分析，一来帮助大家扩充阅读领域，二来帮助大家积累更多的生词及语法，希望能够帮助大家尽早突破ACT阅读这一难关。
《he Gift of the Magi》节选
Where she stopped the sign read: “Mme. Sofronie. Hair Goods of All Kinds. ” One flight up Della ran， and collected herself， panting. Madame, large, too while, chilly, hardly looked the “Sorfronie. ”
“Will you buy my hair?” asked Della.
“I buy hair, ” said Madame. “Take your hat off and let’s have a sight at the looks of it. ”
Down rippled the brown cascade.
“Twenty dollars,” said Madame, lifting the mass with a practiced hand.
“Give it to me quick，” said Della.
Oh, and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings. Forget the hashed metaphor. She was ransacking the stores for Jim’s present.
She found it at last. It surely had been made for Jim and no one else. There was no other like it in any of the stores, and she had turned all of them inside out. It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design,
properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation—as all good things should do. It was even worthy of The Watch. As soon as she saw it she knew that it must be Jim’s. It was like him. Quietness and value—the description applied to both. Twenty-one 20 dollars they took from her for it, and she hurried home, with the 87 oents. With that chain on his watch Jim might be properly anxious about the time in any company. Grand as the watch was, he sometimes looked at it on the sly on account of the old leather strap that he used in place of a chain.
难词解析：
hashed adj. 散列的
Metaphor n. 暗喻，隐喻;比喻说法
Platinum n. [化学] 铂;白金
Fob n. 表袋;短表链及其饰物
Chain n. 链;束缚;枷锁
Proclaim vt. 宣告，公布;声明;表明;赞扬
meretricious adj. 俗气的;娼妓的;华丽而庸俗的
难句解析：
1.properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation 仅靠物质证明它的价值，而不是靠华而不实的装饰。
2.Grand as the watch was, he sometimes looked at it on the sly on account of the old leather strap that he used in place of a chain.那只表虽然华贵，但他有时偷偷地瞥上一眼用来做表链的旧皮表带。
on the sly 偷偷地
on account of 由于，因为
the old leather strap that he used in place of a chain.此处是定语从句，先行词为the old leather strap，that为连接词，译为他用来代替表链的旧皮表带。
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