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? W e had been having an unseasonable spell of weatherhot, close days, with the fog shutting in every night, scaling for a few hours in midday, then creeping back again at dark,drifting in first over the trees on the point, then suddenly blowing across the fields, blotting out the world and taking possession of houses, men, and animals. ? spell: 一段時(shí)間 a period of time, usually a short one。 a period when there is a particular type of weather eg: a hot/cold/ wet spell ? Unreasonable:不合理的 unmon for the season. It should be quite cool in the midseptember, but this year it was quite hot and humid. ? Drift: 飄動(dòng) to be pushed along very slowly by the movement of air or water