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用法学习: 1. The bizarre circumstances around the deaths of JFK and Oswald have since sparked decades of conspiracy theories and investigation in an attempt to determine if the shots that killed the President had come from the Book Depository building or from a grassy knoll ( [noʊl] 小山坡, 小山丘 a low round hill. ) situated at the opposite end of Elm Street. Questions have always also been raised in regards to whether Oswald acted alone, whether he was a patsy 受人指使, 被人利用, 代人受过 ( [ˈpætsi] a person who is easily taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something. If you describe someone as a patsy, you mean that they are rather stupid and are easily tricked by other people, or can be made to take the blame for other people's actions. [US, informal, disapproval] Davis was nobody's patsy. He has long felt that Ray was set up, that he was a patsy. "the blonde was drop-dead gorgeous but she was nobody's patsy". ) or if there was ever a second shooter. scot-free adv 不受惩罚的, 不受惩处的 without suffering any punishment or injury. without receiving the deserved or expected punishment or without being harmed. If you say that someone got away scot-free, you are emphasizing that they escaped punishment for something that you believe they should have been punished for. Others who were guilty were being allowed to get off scot-free. The court let her off scot-free. "the people who kidnapped you will get off scot-free". unscathed 毫发无损的, 安然无恙的 adj If you are unscathed after a dangerous experience, you have not been injured or harmed by it. Tony emerged unscathed apart from a severely bruised finger. The east side of the city was left unscathed by the riots. might (very) well/easily 极有可能就, 搞不好就, 很可能就 used for saying that something is likely to happen or is likely to be true. to happen. What you say may very well be true. A small technical error may easily result in a serious accident. it may well be that: It may well be that the information is not available. We might well have to wait six months before we know the answers. The crisis might very easily lead to war. He could very well die for God's sake if not for the emergency service's early help. break ranks (rank) 挑战上级, 不服从命令 (of soldiers or police officers) fail to remain in line. fail to maintain solidarity. If you say that a member of a group or organisation breaks ranks, you mean that they disobey the instructions of their group or Organization. 'Even the President's staunchest supporters have some issues where they simply must break ranks,' says Senator Lott. She broke ranks with her father's old party when she stood as an independent. "the government is prepared to break ranks with the Allied states". to behave in a way which is different from other members of a group, especially when they expect your support. to publicly show disagreement or criticism of the group that you belong to: His medical colleagues advised him not to break ranks by talking about the hospital's problems to the newspapers. break ranks with He was the first to break ranks with Ceausescu and publicly criticise his policies. indisposed [ɪndɪspoʊzd] adj If you say that someone is indisposed, you mean that they are not available because they are ill, or for a reason that you do not want to reveal. The speaker was regrettably 遗憾的 indisposed. ill, especially in a way that makes you unable to do something: Sheila Jones is indisposed, so the part of the Countess will be sung tonight by Della Drake. We're so happy to have you here with us, safe and sound. You're very kind. Too kind. Bubbikins? I'm afraid your dear son is indisposed at the moment. We're in the middle of having a film made. What? It doesn't matter. He'll come and visit you soon. You must be tired. We'll find someone to take you to your room. 2. In aesthetics, the uncanny valley 以假乱真的, 真假难辨 ( any situation in which there is confusion between pretence and reality, as when a robot strongly resembles a human. a phenomenon where something that’s like a person or part of a person, such as a robot or a computer-generated figure, is still different enough from reality to cause feelings of unease or revulsion The film's animation was mostly good, but the characters were still deep in the uncanny valley. uncanny [ʌnˈkæni]: strange and mysterious. He predicted the winners of each race with uncanny accuracy. ) is a hypothesized relationship between the degree of an object's resemblance to a human being and the emotional response to such an object. The concept of the uncanny valley suggests that humanoid objects which imperfectly resemble actual human beings provoke uncanny or strangely familiar feelings of eeriness and revulsion in observers. "Valley" denotes a dip in the human observer's affinity for the replica, a relation that otherwise increases with the replica's human likeness. 新电影cats: After the first trailer sent the internet into a full panic over the uncanny valley 神似 of visual effects, the new clip offers more dancing, more drama, more fur and more theatrics( ways of behaving or of doing something that are intended to make people notice you instead of to achieve a particular aim. ). Here, the felines ([ˈfiˌlaɪn] a cat or other member of the cat family. ) are seen preparing for the main event where "the most deserving cat will be reborn to another life so they can be what they've always dreamed of being.". 3. 警察Raptor 13: The video of Sen Const Murphy berating two women after pulling their car over in Sydney prompted Mr Ali to launch his own proceeding against NSW Police. "I am just trying to get some money back in return for why he defected me for something that wasn't defective," Mr Ali said. "My court fees, my lawyer fees, I need all that reimbursed." 采访: "Next year, Jackie and I have been doing this show for 20 years," Kyle said. "I think what better time to put One Direction back together and fly all the way to Australia and do a free concert in the park for us early next year. "Can I just leave that with you( leave sth for/to sb 交给你, 由你来完成 to give someone responsibility for dealing with something: I've left the paperwork for you. Leave it to me - I'll sort it out tomorrow. leave it to somebody (to do something) American English spoken informal used to say that no one should be surprised that someone does something, because it is typical or expected of them Leave it to you to have the whole day planned out!)? You put that together?" Harry didn't really know how to respond to that one we don't think… "We're all going on tour but if it works out, we'll talk about it," Harry said. "We're all pitching in 各尽其职, 都出一份力 together, everyone's doing little jobs so I want you to handle entertainment," Kyle added. 4. expand on something 详细说 in the sense of go into detail about. to give more details about something you have said or written: She mentioned a few ideas, but she didn't expand on them. to go into more detail about (a story or subject). to add more details or information to something that you have already said. Payne later expanded on his initial statement. He expanded on some remarks he made in his last speech. Sherlock s02e03 Episode - The Reichenbach Fall:Sooner or later, you're going to need someone on your side. Someone to set the record straight. You think you're the girl for that job, do you? I'm smart and you can trust me totally. Smart? OK, investigative journalist. Good. Well, look at me and tell me what you see. If you're that skilful, you don't need an interview, you can just read what you need. No? OK, my turn. I see someone who's waiting for their first scoop, so their editor will notice them. You're wearing an expensive skirt, that's been rehemmed twice. Only posh skirt you've got. Your nails, you can't afford to do them that often. I see someone who's hungry, I don't see smart. I don't see trustworthy. I'll give you a quote if you like. Three little words. You repel me 你让我觉得恶心, 你让我恶心. "A consulting criminal." Yes. Your words. Can you expand on that answer? James Moriarty is for hire. A tradesman? Yes. But not the sort who'd fix your heating? No, the sort who'd plant a bomb or stage an assassination. But I'm sure he'd make a decent job of your boiler. Would you describe him as Leading. What? You're leading the witness. He'll object and the judge'll uphold. repel [rɪˈpel] I. [transitive] if something repels you, you think that it is extremely unpleasant and you want to avoid it. If something repels you, you find it horrible and disgusting. She was very striking but in some way I felt repelled. ...a violent excitement that frightened and repelled her 恶心. II. [transitive] to keep something away, or to prevent it from entering something. The wheat is genetically engineered to repel insects. boots that have been specially treated to repel moisture. a. [intransitive/transitive] science if one thing repels 互斥, 排斥 another, an electrical or magnetic force makes them move away from each other. When a magnetic pole repels another magnetic pole, it gives out a force that pushes the other pole away. You can also say that two magnetic poles repel each other or that they repel. Like poles repel, unlike poles attract 同性相斥异性相吸 ( like charges repel. opposites attract). As these electrons are negatively charged they will attempt to repel each other. III. [transitive] to force someone who is attacking to move back or to stop attacking. Using water cannons and tear gas, police repelled protesters outside the US embassy. When an army repels an attack, they successfully fight and drive back soldiers from another army who have attacked them. They have fifty thousand troops along the border ready to repel 战退, 打退 any attack. IV. [transitive] to be unwilling to accept something. a very private woman, who unconsciously repelled any attempts at intimacy. 5. A dominatrix ([ˌdɒmɪˈneɪtrɪks], plural dominatrices [-ˈneɪtrɪsiːz, -nəˈtraɪ-]), is a woman who takes the dominant role in BDSM activities. A dominatrix might be of any sexual orientation, but her orientation does not necessarily limit the genders of her submissive partners. The role of a dominatrix may not even involve physical pain toward the submissive; her domination can be verbal, involving humiliating tasks, or servitude. A dominatrix is typically a paid professional (pro-domme) as the term dominatrix is little-used within the non-professional BDSM scene. The term domme is a coined pseudo-French female variation of the slang dom (short for dominant). The use of domme, dominatrix, dom, or dominant by any woman in a dominant role is chosen mostly by personal preference and the conventions of the local BDSM scene. The term mistress or dominant mistress is sometimes also used. Female dominance, female domination or femdom refer to BDSM activities in which the dominant partner is female. 6. obsequious [əbˈsikwiəs] adj If you describe someone as obsequious, you are criticizing them because they are too eager to help or agree with someone more important than them. [disapproval] Perhaps your mother was very obsequious to doctors. He smiled and bowed obsequiously to Winger. His tone quickly changed from obsequiousness to outright anger. sycophant [ˈsɪkəfant] [formal, disapproval] a person who acts obsequiously towards someone important in order to gain advantage. A sycophant is a person who behaves in a sycophantic way. ...a dictator surrounded by sycophants, frightened to tell him what he may not like. sycophantic [ˌsɪkəˈfæntɪk] 卑躬屈膝的, 谄媚的, 邀宠的 adj. [disapproval] If you describe someone as sycophantic, you disapprove of them because they flatter people who are more important and powerful than they are in order to gain an advantage for themselves. ...his clique of sycophantic friends. We heard the sound of sycophantic laughter. sacrosanct [ˈsækroʊˌsæŋkt] 神圣不可侵犯的 adj (especially of a principle, place, or routine) regarded as too important or valuable to be interfered with. "the individual's right to work has been upheld as sacrosanct". If you describe something as sacrosanct, you consider it to be special and are unwilling to see it criticized or changed. Freedom of the press is sacrosanct. ...weekend rest days were considered sacrosanct. thought to be too important or too special to be changed: I'm willing to help on any weekday, but my weekends are sacrosanct. The crown: And what all successful insurgencies 起义 have in common are five key elements. Control of the media, control of the economy, and the capture 抓获, 擒获 of administrative targets, for which you need the fourth element, the loyalty of the military. Now, in Ghana and Gabon, this can be achieved with a handful of battalions, but here in the United Kingdom we would need to secure Parliament, Whitehall, the Ministry of Defence, and the Cabinet Office. The Prime Minister will be arrested, of course, along with other politicians still loyal. We would have to shut down the airports, air traffic control. Same with the train stations. Curfews will be put in place, martial law declared. And I haven't even mentioned the police. It would take tens of thousands of unquestioningly loyal servicemen, and even in my heyday, I could never command that. Which brings me to the fifth element. Legitimacy. Now, our government draws its strength from long-established institutions that support it. The courts, body of common law, the constitution. For any action against the state to succeed, you'd have to overthrow these as well. But in a highly evolved democracy such as ours, their authority is sacrosanct. Which is why, gentlemen, a coup de'tat in the United Kingdom doesn't stand a chance. 7. investiture [ɪnˈvɛstɪtʃə] noun. the action of formally investing a person with honours or rank. "the investiture of bishops". a ceremony at which honours or rank are formally conferred on a particular person. a public ceremony in which someone is given an official title. ...Edward VIII's investiture as Prince of Wales in 1911. off-message adj (of a politician) departing from the official party line. (of a politician) saying things in public that are different from the official ideas of his or her political party: He was criticized severely by party leaders for going off message during the debate. If a politician is off-message 背离党的纲领, 脱离党的路线, they say something that does not follow the official policy of their party. for (the) want of something 因为没有, 因为缺少 used to say that you do not have or cannot find what you need in a particular situation. The gallery closed down for want of funding. because of not having (something). because (something) does not exist or is not available. If you do something for want of something else, you do it because the other thing is not available or not possible. Many of them had gone into teaching for want of anything better to do. [+ of] There was another emotion, and for want of a better word he called it grief. For want of a better name, let's call it "Operation One." People are dying for want of medical treatment. The project failed for the want of adequate funding. 8. 英国王子: Andrew appears to have bowed to pressure 屈服于压力 and stepped down, with the move coming a day after one sponsor said his plans to continue leading Pitch were "not tenable 站得住脚的, 立得住的 ( If you say that an argument, point of view, or situation is tenable, you believe that it is reasonable and could be successfully defended against criticism. This argument is simply not tenable. The only way his position can be tenable again is if there's a public inquiry. An argument, theory, or position that is untenable cannot be defended successfully against criticism or attack. 站不住脚的. This argument is untenable from an intellectual, moral and practical standpoint. He claimed the charges against him were untenable.)". Of all Prince Andrew's calamitous [kəˈlæmɪtəs] ( causing serious damage, or causing a lot of people to suffer. ) errors of judgment, few are as damaging as his decision to pose for a photograph with his arm around Virginia Roberts, the fingers of his left hand skimming the 17-year-old's bare waist. Miss Roberts gave the original to the FBI which, incidentally, has never questioned its veracity 真实性( [vəˈræsəti] truth, or honesty. Veracity is the quality of being true or the habit of telling the truth. We have total confidence in the veracity of our research. [+ of] He was shocked to find his veracity questioned. veracious [vɛˈreɪʃəs] I. habitually truthful or honest. II. accurate; precise. voracious[vəˈreɪʃəs, US vɔːr-] 求知欲的, 不知满足的 adj If you describe a person, or their appetite for something, as voracious, you mean that they want a lot of something. Joseph Smith was a voracious book collector. ...the band's voracious appetite for fun. He read voraciously. a voracious appetite for something: She has always had a voracious appetite for reading. sagacious [səgeɪʃəs] adj A sagacious person is intelligent and has the ability to make good decisions. ...a sagacious leader. salacious [səleɪʃəs] 香艳的, 色情的 adj If you describe something such as a book or joke as salacious, you think that it deals with sexual matters in an unnecessarily detailed way. The newspapers once again filled their columns with salacious details. ...a wildly salacious novel. The book is written without a hint of salaciousness. Hoover reportedly hunted down and threatened anyone who made insinuations about his sexuality. Truman Capote, who enjoyed repeating salacious rumors about Hoover, once remarked that he was more interested in making Hoover angry than determining whether the rumors were true. capacious [kəpeɪʃəs] adj Something that is capacious has a lot of space to put things in. ...her capacious handbag. vivacious [vɪveɪʃəs] 栩栩如生的, 活泼好动的 adj If you describe someone as vivacious, you mean that they are lively, exciting, and attractive. She's beautiful, vivacious, and charming. rapacious [rəpeɪʃəs] 贪得无厌的, 欲求不满的 If you describe a person or their behaviour as rapacious, you disapprove of their greedy or selfish behaviour. He had a rapacious appetite for bird's nest soup. ...a rapacious exploitation policy. ). 9. In 1971, President Lyndon Johnson said of a dangerous rival: better to keep your enemies close: It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in. US President Lyndon Johnson, regarding FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, as quoted in The New York Times. Boss: I need to know you'll be loyal. You'll have to respect my authority, I can't have you outside the tent pissing in. Employee: I'll piss miles away from the tent. You won't even notice my piss. About Hoover: I never saw any indication of homosexual tendencies in Hoover.… He did have a close association with [Clyde] Tolson. They conferred frequently during the day and they invariably 雷打不动的 ate lunch together…. On Wednesday they had dinner at Tolson's apartment, on Friday at Hoover's house.… I know from my talks with Hoover that he was genuinely fond of Tolson, as an older brother might be. 10. Oregano 牛至 (US: [əˈreɡəˌnoʊ], UK: [ˌɒrɪˈɡɑːnəʊ]) is a flowering plant in the mint family (Lamiaceae). It is native to temperate Western and Southwestern Eurasia and the Mediterranean region. Oregano is a culinary and medicinal herb from the mint, or Lamiaceae family. It has been used in medicine and cooking for thousands of years. It adds flavor, and it may have a number of health benefits. 11. Wicker 藤条, 柳条 is a technique for making products woven from any one of a variety of pliable plant materials, a generic name for the materials used in such manufacture, and a term for the items so produced. Wicker is traditionally made of material of plant origin, such as willow, rattan, reed, and bamboo, but synthetic fibers are now also used. Wicker is light yet sturdy, making it suitable for items that will be moved often like porch and patio furniture. Rushwork and wickerwork are terms used in England. A field office 地区办公室(After working in the FBI's Boston and Washington, D.C., field offices, he became the chief FBI clerk and was promoted to assistant director in 1930.), frequently also referred to as a branch office, is generally part of a larger business operation, and may be one of a network of offices housing business facilities in remote locations. These offices serve several purposes. A branch office is an outlet of a company or, more generally, an organization that – unlike a subsidiary – does not constitute a separate legal entity, while being physically separated from the organization's main office. Branching is particularly widespread in banking and other financial institutions, where the products' complexity requires local offices to act more like an agency than as a separate company. A branch structure exposes the owning company to full taxability and legal liability in regard to the branch office's operations. A regional office is a unit of a company that is responsible for selling its products in an area that isn't directly serviced by its main office or headquarters. It is typically headed by a branch manager. 12. titillate 挑逗 to make someone excited intentionally but only a little, usually with sexual images or descriptions. to produce feelings of interest, pleasure, or sexual excitement in someone. So many adverts these days are designed to titillate. humorous Carter's biography is only spoiled by the fact that he refuses to titillate (= interest) his readers with any gossip. titillation noun the arousal of interest or excitement, especially through sexually suggestive images or words. the act of intentionally making someone slightly excited, usually with sexual images or descriptions: We've certainly seen an increase on TV of foul language and sexual titillation. There's more going on in this film than cheap titillation. "a literary form of popular entertainment and titillation". Under Hoover, agents were directed to seize all pornographic materials uncovered in their investigations and forward them to Hoover personally. He kept a large collection, possibly the world's largest, of films, photographs, and written materials, with particular emphasis on nude photos of celebrities. Hoover reportedly used these for his own titillation, as well as holding them for blackmail purposes. 关于胡佛: No one could possibly make a movie about Hoover now without addressing his sexuality—especially the screenwriter of this one, Dustin Lance Black, who won an Oscar two years ago for Milk. People are sure to pat him and Eastwood on the back for 给予鼓励 having handled the subject so tastefully 有格调的, which in practice means that they steer clear of the most absurd stories and treat Hoover's love life with some measure of ambiguity, even as they invent all manner of private scenes to portray him as a severely repressed homosexual. For more than 40 years he maintained an intimate friendship with Clyde Tolson, a tall and athletic agent who quickly rose through the ranks to become Hoover's right-hand man. Tolson was slavishly devoted to the director, and the two men were inseparable, taking meals and even vacationing together. Their close relationship became the primary basis for all the innuendo, though Hoover did his best to squash these rumors, dispatching agents to grill people who'd impugned his reputation ( impugn [ɪmˈpjuːn] 质疑 dispute the truth, validity, or honesty of (a statement or motive); call into question. "the father does not impugn her capacity as a good mother". to cause people to doubt someone's character, qualities, or reputation by criticizing them: Are you impugning my competence as a professional designer? if you impugn someone's motives, you say that they do not deserve to be trusted or respected. If you impugn something such as someone's motives or integrity, you imply that they are not entirely honest or honourable. The Secretary's letter questions my veracity and impugns my motives. All I can hope is that the good name of the Bank will not be impugned in some way. impinge [ɪmˈpɪndʒ] on/upon something 影响, 干扰 to have an effect on something, especially in a negative way The new law will not impinge on the way companies conduct their business. Something that impinges on you affects you to some extent. ...the cuts in defence spending that have impinged on two of the region's largest employers.) and demand that they come across with evidence. No one ever did. Once Hoover and Tolson were both dead, however, the dam finally burst 决堤, 大坝决口. In 1993 the British author Anthony Summers, who'd written best sellers on Marilyn Monroe and the Kennedy assassination, published the scandalous Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover. This outrageous tale immediately became fodder 谈资 for late-night comedians and gained such traction that even President Bill Clinton and Senator Bob Dole made public cracks about Hoover's alleged cross-dressing. Even Cohn, himself a closeted homosexual, appears to have debunked Rosenstiel's story. "[Hoover] would never do anything that would compromise 危及 his position as head of the FBI—ever," Cohn told the publicist Peter Simone, who's quoted in Richard Hack's book Puppetmaster: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover. "There was supposed to be some scandalous pictures of Hoover and Tolson—there were no pictures. Believe me, I looked. There were no pictures because there was no sexual relationship." The stories have taken on a life of their own 不胫而走, 甚嚣尘上 not necessarily because they're true but because no one deserved them more than J. Edgar Hoover. For nearly 50 years he treated the FBI as his personal fiefdom 自家后院 ( [ˈfiːfdəm] an area over which a person or organization exerts authority or influence. an area or organization that someone controls completely. an area or type of activity that is controlled by someone: The stage is his personal fiefdom. ), spying on American citizens to amass a secret file of sensitive information and using it to blackmail his political opponents. Given Hoover's malevolent 邪恶的 ( [məˈlevələnt] showing that you want to do something bad to someone. a malevolent look/smile. causing or wanting to cause harm or evil: a malevolent juvenile delinquent. A malevolent person deliberately tries to cause harm or evil. Her stare was malevolent, her mouth a thin line. ...a rare streak of malevolence. Mark watched him malevolently.) influence on American history, one can understand why some people would want to strangle him with his own feather boa. To complicate the matter further, his alleged homosexuality has become an article of faith ( article of faith 坚定信仰 a firmly held belief.. something that you believe in very strongly: Socialism was an article of faith with his parents. If something is an article of faith for a person or group, they believe in it totally. For Republicans it is almost an article of faith that this tax should be cut. ) for some gay advocates. To their credit, Black, Eastwood, and Leonardo DiCaprio—who digs into the role of Hoover with relish and commitment—bypass the discredited story of Hoover camping it up 夸张的行为 ( If a performer camps it up, they deliberately perform in an exaggerated and often amusing way. [informal] He camped it up, he told bad taste jokes and endless anecdotes with no point at all. to speak or behave in a coquettishly playful or extravagantly theatrical manner. camp it up I. To act in a campy (exaggerated, racy, or tacky) manner, often in a theatrical setting. I know your character is supposed to add comic relief, but you don't have to camp it up that much. II. To act in an overly effeminate manner, as of a gay man. I highly doubt that every man who camps it up is gay.) at Roy Cohn's orgy. But they do manage to get their protagonist into a dress. Edgar grows up under the thumb of his domineering 强势的 mother (Judi Dench), and at one point, after he's become a prominent man, he returns home after an uncomfortable evening at a nightclub to confess, "I don't like to dance with women." His mother icily reminds him of his childhood classmate who was caught wearing drag and later committed suicide (a true story). Her feeling about the incident is unequivocal [ˌʌnɪˈkwɪvək(ə)l] 不容置疑的, 再清楚不过的 ( leaving no doubt; unambiguous. "an unequivocal answer". ): "I'd rather have a dead son than a daffodil 水仙(自恋) for a son." Black lays it on the line during the aforementioned trip west, when Hoover and Tolson come to blows 打起来了, 打架 ( if two people come to blows, they start hitting each other It sounded as if they were about to come to blows. ) in Hoover's hotel suite. The scene is based on an incident from Hack's book, Puppetmaster, that took place in August 1942 as the two men were vacationing in Del Mar, California. Hotel management was told of "a ruckus" in the suite, which included smashed dishes and ended with Tolson storming out with a black eye and a bruised lip. That's all we know, but Black fills in the rest: when Hoover informs Tolson that he plans to marry Dorothy Lamour, Tolson flips out on him. "You're a scared, heartless, horrible little man!' he shrieks. Hoover slugs (to hit someone or something very hard with your fist. slug it out to argue or fight about something until someone wins. ) him, but Tolson punches him back and forces a bloody kiss on the director. (Ooh, kinky!) "If you ever mention a lady friend again, it will be the last time you share my company," Tolson declares, leaving Hoover alone to whisper, "I love you, Clyde." Seventy years later, we live in a country so oversexualized that people will accept J. Edgar Hoover being heterosexual, or homosexual, or bisexual. The one possibility that could never gain any popular currency—( common currency 共识 If you say that an idea or belief has become common currency, you mean it is widely used and accepted. The story that she was trapped in a loveless marriage became common currency.be/become common currency to be or become something that a lot of people know about and talk about. Stories of the President’s infidelities became common currency.)--- even though it's probably the truth—is that Hoover was completely asexual. His appetite for power 权力欲, 权利的胃口 was so enormous that it might well have canceled out any normal human appetite for physical contact. J. Edgar deals with many other aspects of Hoover's life and career: his rabid 穷凶极恶的 anticommunism, his relentless self-publicity, his ruthless political vendettas, and his rigid professionalism, which enabled him to transform the FBI from an ineffectual paper-pushing bureaucracy into a model of forensic investigation. The one mystery Black and Eastwood can't solve is Hoover's love life—perhaps because the solution is too simple to be believed.