pickle vt.腌渍(泡菜等)

Mother used to pickle onions.
妈妈过去常腌制洋葱。

n.腌菜

Most people eat pickles at breakfast.
大多数人早餐吃腌菜。

crony n. (有权势者的)密友，朋友

He spends every evening drinking in the pub with his crony.
他每天晚上都跟知心朋友到酒馆喝酒。

sooty adj. 煤烟熏黑的，乌黑的

Deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of North Atlantic and North Pacific, valued for food.
北大西洋和北太平洋远洋深水中熏黑色刺状鳍鱼，珍贵食品。
　　
unroll vt. & vi. 展开，铺开，打开

And I'd like to give you a little something to take home. Let me unroll it.
对了，我有样小东西想送你，让我把它打开。

inexplicable adj. 无法解释的；神秘的

Her inexplicable absence worried me.
她的缺席无法解释，令我担忧。