【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER TWO（10）
时间：2018-12-31 作者：英语课 分类：有声英语文学名著
英语课
In the Piazza 1 della Rotunda 2, Dexter‘s mother sat at a café table, a novel held loosely in one
hand, her eyes closed and her head tilted 3 back and to the side like a bird to catch the last of
the afternoon sun. Rather than arrive straightaway, Dexter took a moment to sit amongst the
tourists on the steps of the Pantheon and watch as the waiter approached and picked up her
ashtray 4, startling her. They both laughed, and from the theatrical 5 movement of her mouth and
arms he could tell that she was speaking her terrible Italian, her hand on the waiter‘s arm,
patting it flirtatiously. With no apparent idea what had been said, the waiter nevertheless
grinned and flirted back, then walked away, glancing over his shoulder at the beautiful
English woman who had touched his arm and talked incomprehensibly.
Dexter saw all this and smiled. That old Freudian notion, first whispered at boarding
school, that boys were meant to be in love with their mothers and hate their fathers, seemed
perfectly 6 plausible 7 to him. Everyone he had ever met had been in love with Alison Mayhew,
and the best of it was that he really liked his father too; as in so many things, he had all the
luck.
hand, her eyes closed and her head tilted 3 back and to the side like a bird to catch the last of
the afternoon sun. Rather than arrive straightaway, Dexter took a moment to sit amongst the
tourists on the steps of the Pantheon and watch as the waiter approached and picked up her
ashtray 4, startling her. They both laughed, and from the theatrical 5 movement of her mouth and
arms he could tell that she was speaking her terrible Italian, her hand on the waiter‘s arm,
patting it flirtatiously. With no apparent idea what had been said, the waiter nevertheless
grinned and flirted back, then walked away, glancing over his shoulder at the beautiful
English woman who had touched his arm and talked incomprehensibly.
Dexter saw all this and smiled. That old Freudian notion, first whispered at boarding
school, that boys were meant to be in love with their mothers and hate their fathers, seemed
perfectly 6 plausible 7 to him. Everyone he had ever met had been in love with Alison Mayhew,
and the best of it was that he really liked his father too; as in so many things, he had all the
luck.
n.广场；走廊
- Siena's main piazza was one of the sights of Italy.锡耶纳的主要广场是意大利的名胜之一。
- They walked out of the cafeteria,and across the piazzadj.他们走出自助餐厅,穿过广场。
n.圆形建筑物；圆厅
- The Capitol at Washington has a large rotunda.华盛顿的国会大厦有一圆形大厅。
- The rotunda was almost deserted today,dotted with just a few tourists.圆形大厅今天几乎没有多少人，只零星散布着几个游客。
v. 倾斜的
- Suddenly the boat tilted to one side. 小船突然倾向一侧。
- She tilted her chin at him defiantly. 她向他翘起下巴表示挑衅。
n.烟灰缸
- He knocked out his pipe in the big glass ashtray.他在大玻璃烟灰缸里磕净烟斗。
- She threw the cigarette butt into the ashtray.她把烟头扔进烟灰缸。
adj.剧场的，演戏的；做戏似的，做作的
- The final scene was dismayingly lacking in theatrical effect.最后一场缺乏戏剧效果，叫人失望。
- She always makes some theatrical gesture.她老在做些夸张的手势。
adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地
- The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
- Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。