Susan gunned the car into her reserved spot and killed the engine.
terrace
He mused to himself.
He invariably stayed late to answer a barrage of questions.
oblivious
After soundly beating his opponent, he would cool off by dousing his head in a drinking fountain and soaking his tuft of thick, black hair.
As with all young professors, David's university salary was modest.
apprehension
pore over 仔细阅读
jumble
surmise
scrambled
bustle blatantly
lanky
duly
There they were, two highly analytical minds, presumably immune to irrational infatuations--but somehow, while they sat there discussing linguistic morphology and pseudo–random number generators, they felt like a couple of teenagers--everything was fireworks.
flirtatiously
deciphered the code
riveted：all eyes were riveted on him.所有的目光都集中到他身上。
pick up the check
chivalry
enthrall
clandestine
intercept the communications of foreign powers
antennas
radomes
mammoth
reconnaissance：intelligence reconnaissance
boggling：a mind-boggling collection of listening posts
mesmerized
Susan felt a pang of guilt over lying to her new love
in the highest echelons of power
gibberish：At first the text looks like gibberish, but as you learn the rules defining its structure, you can start to extract meaning.
ambush
rudimentary
encrypt this directives
transcribe the text into a square grid
pinnacle
baffling
The device resembled an old-fashioned typewriter with brass interlocking rotors that revolved in intricate ways and shuffled cleartext into confounding arrays of seemingly senseless character groupings.
calibrated
spellbound
his heart was doing back flips
she had developed a willowy grace
with a doctorate
blurted it out
slipped off her nightgown
Their relationship had been in a downhill slide ever since.
reverie
domed ceiling towered 120 feet at its central peak.
captives of the dome's powerful deionizing system.
The room's sloping sides arched broadly at the top and then became almost vertical as they approached eye level.
translucent opaque
shimmering tile
a shimmering expanse of polished black tile that shone with an eerie luster
sleek contour
be frozen mid breach in a frigid sea.
silo
maze
a rocketlike hull surrounded by a winding maze of catwalks, cables, and hissing exhaust from the freon cooling system
acoustics
techno-gurus
a cry of outrage went up
encryption algorithm
It was time-consuming but mathematically guaranteed to work.
endorsed
a carte blanche
trying every new permutation as they went
tenacity
staggering
embezzlers
futuristic
drapes
grated
clutching
hazing：never tolerated the hazing of anyone
favoritism
bulletin board
She almost fainted in embarrassment.
stunt
unorthodox
Trevor Strathmore became known for his cogent, reductive analyses of highly complex situations.
have an uncanny ability to see past the moral perplexities surrounding
remorse
visionary
In the years since Susan's arrival at the NSA, Strathmore had skyrocketed from head of Crypto Development to second-in-command of the entire NSA.
the mythical overlord of the Puzzle Palace--never seen
when they met, it was like the clash of the titans.
Not even the President of the United States dared challenge Fontaine the way Strathmore did.
a rangy, thick-fleshed man whose muted features somehow disguised his hard-nosed efficiency and demand for perfection.
disheveled
forehead was beaded with sweat.
recessed
strewn
cockpit
prop
coalition
lobby
eavesdropping
thorn
terrace
He mused to himself.
He invariably stayed late to answer a barrage of questions.
oblivious
After soundly beating his opponent, he would cool off by dousing his head in a drinking fountain and soaking his tuft of thick, black hair.
As with all young professors, David's university salary was modest.
apprehension
pore over 仔细阅读
jumble
surmise
scrambled
bustle blatantly
lanky
duly
There they were, two highly analytical minds, presumably immune to irrational infatuations--but somehow, while they sat there discussing linguistic morphology and pseudo–random number generators, they felt like a couple of teenagers--everything was fireworks.
flirtatiously
deciphered the code
riveted：all eyes were riveted on him.所有的目光都集中到他身上。
pick up the check
chivalry
enthrall
clandestine
intercept the communications of foreign powers
antennas
radomes
mammoth
reconnaissance：intelligence reconnaissance
boggling：a mind-boggling collection of listening posts
mesmerized
Susan felt a pang of guilt over lying to her new love
in the highest echelons of power
gibberish：At first the text looks like gibberish, but as you learn the rules defining its structure, you can start to extract meaning.
ambush
rudimentary
encrypt this directives
transcribe the text into a square grid
pinnacle
baffling
The device resembled an old-fashioned typewriter with brass interlocking rotors that revolved in intricate ways and shuffled cleartext into confounding arrays of seemingly senseless character groupings.
calibrated
spellbound
his heart was doing back flips
she had developed a willowy grace
with a doctorate
blurted it out
slipped off her nightgown
Their relationship had been in a downhill slide ever since.
reverie
domed ceiling towered 120 feet at its central peak.
captives of the dome's powerful deionizing system.
The room's sloping sides arched broadly at the top and then became almost vertical as they approached eye level.
translucent opaque
shimmering tile
a shimmering expanse of polished black tile that shone with an eerie luster
sleek contour
be frozen mid breach in a frigid sea.
silo
maze
a rocketlike hull surrounded by a winding maze of catwalks, cables, and hissing exhaust from the freon cooling system
acoustics
techno-gurus
a cry of outrage went up
encryption algorithm
It was time-consuming but mathematically guaranteed to work.
endorsed
a carte blanche
trying every new permutation as they went
tenacity
staggering
embezzlers
futuristic
drapes
grated
clutching
hazing：never tolerated the hazing of anyone
favoritism
bulletin board
She almost fainted in embarrassment.
stunt
unorthodox
Trevor Strathmore became known for his cogent, reductive analyses of highly complex situations.
have an uncanny ability to see past the moral perplexities surrounding
remorse
visionary
In the years since Susan's arrival at the NSA, Strathmore had skyrocketed from head of Crypto Development to second-in-command of the entire NSA.
the mythical overlord of the Puzzle Palace--never seen
when they met, it was like the clash of the titans.
Not even the President of the United States dared challenge Fontaine the way Strathmore did.
a rangy, thick-fleshed man whose muted features somehow disguised his hard-nosed efficiency and demand for perfection.
disheveled
forehead was beaded with sweat.
recessed
strewn
cockpit
prop
coalition
lobby
eavesdropping
thorn
