22. I was going to　gamble on their inspection ending there， before they dug deeper to my diaries.—— The success of my plan would depend on their stopping the inspection when they saw the stamped broadcast scripts and not going further to find what was beneath the scripts. But this was a great risk to take.我要把寶押在他們的檢查到此為止上，而不再往下翻到我的日記。

gamble on sth./ doing sth.：希望成功而冒著失敗的危險做……，壓賭注

eg：　You shouldn't gamble on one exams. 你不應該把命運壓在一次考試上。

eg：　He called for another vote， gambling on getting more support.

他要求再舉行一次投票，冒著失敗的危險尋求更多人的支持。

eg： You shouldn't gamble on the supply of spare parts arriving promptly.

你可不能把賭注全押在零件能立即到位這一點上。 在這個句型中，gamble后面的動名詞表示的是主語的行為（如getting more support），如果不是就需要在動名詞的前面加上一個名詞短語作其邏輯主語，　如their inspection和 the supply of spare parts.它們的行為分別是 ending和 arriving.

23. The feared Gestapo， I knew， was really not very　efficient. It was true that the Gestapo were much feared. But they were not as competent as they were thought to be.我知道那些令人畏懼的蓋世太保并非真的很能干。（注意挖苦的口吻。）

Efficient， adj.能干的，有效率的efficiency， n.效率

24. Everything at Gestapo headquarters worked out as I had planned.在秘密警察總部，一切都按照我的計劃順利進行。

work out： develop in a specific way按……發展；產生結果；成功

eg：　 Their experiment worked out differently. 他們實驗產生了不同的結果。

eg：　Things did not work out as well as we expected. 情況的發展不如我們預料的那樣好。

eg：　Their marriage did not work out. 他們的婚姻并不成功。

25. They had been very valuable to me in reporting the army's great victories. I realized I shouldn’t take out General Staff maps.這些地圖對我報道軍隊的偉大勝利非常有用。我認識到我不應該把軍用地圖帶出德國。（對付蓋世太保作者采用了兩個手法， 一是假意贊揚，二是主動“認錯”，二者均十分奏效。）

valuable to對……有價值，有用

eg：　These materials are valuable to him in studying the ancient culture. 這些資料對他研究古代文化非常有價值。

26. every page， as you see， stamped for approval by the High Command and two ministries. 　 你看