时间:2019-01-01 作者:英语课 分类:时间旅行者的妻子


英语课
HENRY: How does it feel? How does it feel? Sometimes it feels as though your attention has wandered for just an instant. Then, with a start, you realize that the book you were holding, the red plaid cotton shirt with white buttons, the favorite black jeans and the maroon 1 socks with an almost-hole in one heel, the living room, the about-to-whistle tea kettle in the kitchen: all of these have vanished. You are standing 2, naked as a jaybird, up to your ankles in ice water in a ditch along an unidentified rural route. You wait a minute to see if maybe you will just snap right back to your book, your apartment, et cetera. After about five minutes of swearing and shivering and hoping to hell you can just disappear, you start walking in any direction, which will eventually yield a farmhouse 3, where you have the option of stealing or explaining. Stealing will sometimes land you in jail, but explaining is more tedious and time-consuming and involves lying anyway, and also sometimes results in being hauled off to jail, so what the hell.
 Sometimes you feel as though you have stood up too quickly even if you are lying in bed half asleep. You hear blood rushing in your head, feel vertiginous 4 falling sensations. Your hands and feet are tingling 5 and then they aren’t there at all. You’ve mislocated yourself again. It only takes an instant, you have just enough time to try to hold on, to flail 6 around (possibly damaging yourself or valuable possessions) and then you are skidding 7 across the forest-green-carpeted hallway of a Motel 6 in Athens, Ohio, at 4:16 a.m., Monday, August 6, 1981, and you hit your head on someone’s door, causing this person, a Ms. Tina Schulman from Philadelphia, to open this door and start screaming because there’s a naked, carpet-burned man passed out at her feet. You wake up in the County Hospital concussed with a policeman sitting outside your door listening to the Phillies game on a crackly transistor 8 radio. Mercifully, you lapse 9 back into unconsciousness and wake up again hours later in your own bed with your wife leaning over you looking very worried.

v.困住,使(人)处于孤独无助之境;n.逃亡黑奴;孤立的人;酱紫色,褐红色;adj.酱紫色的,褐红色的
  • Five couples were marooned in their caravans when the River Avon broke its banks.埃文河决堤的时候,有5对夫妇被困在了他们的房车里。
  • Robinson Crusoe has been marooned on a desert island for 26 years.鲁滨逊在荒岛上被困了26年。
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
n.农场住宅(尤指主要住房)
  • We fell for the farmhouse as soon as we saw it.我们对那所农舍一见倾心。
  • We put up for the night at a farmhouse.我们在一间农舍投宿了一夜。
adj.回旋的;引起头晕的
  • House prices continued their vertiginous decline,with the US,UK,Spain and Ireland leading the way.房屋价格继续他们的旋转式下降,美国、英国、西班牙和爱尔兰引领着这个趋势。
  • My small mind contained in earthly human limits,not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.我的狭隘思想局限在人类世俗之中,不会
v.有刺痛感( tingle的现在分词 )
  • My ears are tingling [humming; ringing; singing]. 我耳鸣。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • My tongue is tingling. 舌头发麻。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
v.用连枷打;击打;n.连枷(脱粒用的工具)
  • No fence against flail.飞来横祸不胜防。
  • His arms were flailing in all directions.他的手臂胡乱挥舞着。
n.曳出,集材v.(通常指车辆) 侧滑( skid的现在分词 );打滑;滑行;(住在)贫民区
  • All the wheels of the truck were tied up with iron chains to avoid skidding on the ice road. 大卡车的所有轮子上都捆上了铁链,以防止在结冰的路面上打滑。 来自《用法词典》
  • I saw the motorcycle skidding and its rider spilling in dust. 我看到摩托车打滑,骑车人跌落在地。 来自互联网
n.晶体管,晶体管收音机
  • This make of transistor radio is small and beautifully designed.这半导体收音机小巧玲珑。
  • Every transistor has at least three electrodes.每个晶体管至少有三个电极。
n.过失,流逝,失效,抛弃信仰,间隔;vi.堕落,停止,失效,流逝;vt.使失效
  • The incident was being seen as a serious security lapse.这一事故被看作是一次严重的安全疏忽。
  • I had a lapse of memory.我记错了。
学英语单词
Abukuma-type facies
academic preparation
air cleaner spring
anterior radiocarpal ligaments
arranged marriage
arsenic flowers
batch pipelining
bath-chairs
be heavier than air
be nothing to do with
Blue Ball
borderline syndrome
box-in
brm
carbamylcholin
cellular radio phone
circuit power factor
coltes
come loose
cow pie
cowessess
designed waterline length
Different ropes for different folks
dislocation half-loop
dreesmann
dudesses
dulse
Dutch caps
dynamic tube
eadometritis
electrical plunger pump
electronic tuning range
epileptic seizures
exosporium
Fresnes
gas metal-arc process
glass phosphate dosimeter
goriot
Gourma-Rharous
grinding pressure angle
Hawaii Time
henricians
homografting
horse ballet
imperfect polarization
jack kemp
light-reflectings
mandatory standard
mastonia papillata
mechanical wave
mononegavirus
name-recognition
nonaerated
noncertification
Notice of Valuation
octogenarian
offsite power system
oriented thin section
Orussidae
overhead welding seam
plain eyebolt
portable scheme debugger
postganglionic fibers
potassium felspar
potassium hydrogen tellurate
proeutectoid ferrite
put your hands up
pyramid bugles
radiation of Gratiolet
Raney's nickel
renaleptine
research satellite for geophysics
Ribes giraldii
rumis
Rusako
satellite Doppler tracking
scagnetti
scancode
schaad
schischimskit (shishimskite)
seismic region
semi-automatic sprinkler system
semi-topping tooth profile
sequential colour difference signal
settlement & billing subsystem
shell prompt
soft lens
Starlix
stranded wire
strictly increasing functions
symmetric geometric configurations
syntide-2
taeniostola connecta
terephthalylidene
therapia sterilisaos frsctionata
to the advantage of someone
Trenner's automatic pipet
unacquainted
valsabbia
vapo(u)rization
variable-density log
Vastazin