【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER TWO（2）
时间：2018-12-31 作者：英语课 分类：有声英语文学名著
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I mean they had loads of radical 1 theatre in Germany in the Thirties and look
what a difference that made. We’re going to banish 2 colour prejudice from the West Midlands, even if we have to do it one child at a time.
There are four of us in the cast. Kwame is the Noble Slave and despite us playing mistress and
servant we actually get along alright (though I asked him to get me a packet of crisps in this café the
other day and he looked at me like I was OPPRESSING him or something). But he’s nice and
serious about the work, though he did cry a lot in rehearsals 3, which I thought was a bit much. He’s a
bit of a weeper, if you know what I mean. In the play there’s meant to be this powerful sexual tension
between us, but once again life is failing to imitate art.
Then there’s Sid, who plays my wicked father Obadiah. I know your whole childhood was spent
playing French cricket on a bloody 4 great chamomile lawn and you never did anything as déclassé as
watch the telly, but Sid used to be quite famous, on this cop show called City Beat and his disgust at
being reduced to THIS shines through. He flatly refuses to mime 5, like it’s beneath him to be seen with
an object that isn’t really there, and every other sentence begins ‘when I was on telly’ which is his
way of saying ‘when I was happy’. Sid pees in washbasins and has these scary polyester trousers
which you WIPE DOWN instead of washing and subsists 6 on service station minced 7 beef pasties, and
me and Kwame think he’s secretly really racist 8, but apart from that he’s a lovely man, a lovely, lovely
man.
And then there’s Candy, ah Candy. You’d like Candy, she’s exactly what she sounds like. She
plays Cheeky Maid, a Plantation Owner and Sir William Wilberforce, and is very beautiful and
spiritual and even though I don’t approve of the word, a complete bitch. She keeps asking me how old
I am really and telling me I look tired or that if I got contact lenses I could actually be quite pretty,
which I ADORE of course. She’s very keen to make it clear that she’s only doing this to get her
Equity 9 card and bide 10 her time until she’s spotted 11 by some Hollywood producer who presumably just
happens to be passing through Dudley on a wet Tuesday afternoon on the lookout 12 for hot TIE talent.
Acting 13 is rubbish, isn’t it?
n.激进份子，原子团，根号；adj.根本的，激进的，彻底的
- The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
- She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。
vt.放逐，驱逐；消除，排除
- The doctor advised her to banish fear and anxiety.医生劝她消除恐惧和忧虑。
- He tried to banish gloom from his thought.他试图驱除心中的忧愁。
n.练习( rehearsal的名词复数 )；排练；复述；重复
- The earlier protests had just been dress rehearsals for full-scale revolution. 早期的抗议仅仅是大革命开始前的预演。
- She worked like a demon all through rehearsals. 她每次排演时始终精力过人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.非常的的；流血的；残忍的；adv.很；vt.血染
- He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
- He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。
n.指手画脚，做手势，哑剧演员，哑剧；vi./vt.指手画脚的表演，用哑剧的形式表演
- Several French mime artists will give some lectures this afternoon.几位法国哑剧表演艺术家将在今天下午做几场讲座。
- I couldn't speak Chinese,but I showed in mime that I wanted a drink.我不会讲汉语，但我作摹拟动作表示要一杯饮料。
v.（靠很少的钱或食物）维持生活，生存下去( subsist的第三人称单数 )
- This plant subsists in water holes only during the rainy season. 这种植物只有雨季在水坑里出现。 来自辞典例句
- The hinge is that the enterprise subsists on suiting the development of data communication. 适应数据通信的发展是通信企业生存的关键。 来自互联网
v.切碎( mince的过去式和过去分词 )；剁碎；绞碎；用绞肉机绞（食物，尤指肉）
- He minced over to serve us. 他迈着碎步过来招待我们。
- A young fop minced up to George and introduced himself. 一个花花公子扭扭捏捏地走到乔治面前并作了自我介绍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.种族主义者，种族主义分子
- a series of racist attacks 一连串的种族袭击行为
- His speech presented racist ideas under the guise of nationalism. 他的讲话以民族主义为幌子宣扬种族主义思想。
n.公正，公平，（无固定利息的）股票
- They shared the work of the house with equity.他们公平地分担家务。
- To capture his equity,Murphy must either sell or refinance.要获得资产净值，墨菲必须出售或者重新融资。
v.忍耐；等候；住
- We'll have to bide our time until the rain stops.我们必须等到雨停。
- Bide here for a while. 请在这儿等一会儿。
adj.有斑点的，斑纹的，弄污了的
- The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
- Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
n.注意，前途，瞭望台
- You can see everything around from the lookout.从了望台上你可以看清周围的一切。
- It's a bad lookout for the company if interest rates don't come down.如果利率降不下来，公司的前景可就不妙了。