cell
n
1 very small room, eg for a monk in a monastery or for one or more prisoners in a prison 小房间(如修道院里的密室或狱中的牢房).
2 compartment in a honeycomb (蜂房的)巢室.
3 device for producing an electric current by chemical action, eg the metal plates in acid inside a battery 电池.
4 microscopic unit of living matter, containing a nucleus 细胞
Human tissue is made up of cells. 人体的组织是由细胞构成的. * cancer cells 癌细胞.
5 small group of people forming a centre of (esp revolutionary) political activity (尤指革命的)政治活动小组
a terrorist cell 恐怖分子的小组.
I have some difficulty in pronouncing some of the words in English.
我有些英语单词发音不好。
Do you remember one afternoon ten years ago when I came to your house and borrowed a necklace of yours? Pierre, my husband, was working in a government office. We'd been invited to a ball at the palace so I needed to borrow some jewellery.