时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:有声英语文学名著


英语课
“You've tied yourself to a corpse 1 for some reason.” 
 
 
“He is a saint. I think. A despairing saint. Are there such things? Our desire is to protect them.” 
 
 
“He doesn't even care!” Caravaggio said.
“I can love him.” 
 
 
“A twenty-year-old who throws herself out of the world to love a ghost!” 
 
 
Caravaggio paused. “You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else's poison— thinking you can cure them by sharing it—you will instead store it within you. Those men in the desert were smarter than you. They assumed he could be useful. So they saved him, but when he was no longer useful they left him.”
 
 
“Leave me alone.” Hana said.
 
 
In her childhood her classroom had been Caravaggio. He had taught her the somersault. Now, with his hands always in his pockets, he just gestures with his shoulders. Who knew what country the war had made him live in. She herself had been trained at Women’s College Hospital and then sent overseas during the Sicilian invasion. That was in 1943. The First Canadian Infantry 2 Division worked its way up Italy, and the destroyed bodies were fed back to the field hospitals like mud passed back by tunnellers in the dark. After the battle of Arezzo, when the first barrage 3 of troops recoiled 4, she was surrounded day and night by their wounds. After three full days without rest, she finally lay down on the floor beside a mattress 5 where someone lay dead, and slept for twelve hours, closing her eyes against the world around her. 
When she woke, she picked up a pair of scissors out of the porcelain bowl, leaned over and began to cut her hair, 

1 corpse
n.尸体,死尸
  • What she saw was just an unfeeling corpse.她见到的只是一具全无感觉的尸体。
  • The corpse was preserved from decay by embalming.尸体用香料涂抹以防腐烂。
2 infantry
n.[总称]步兵(部队)
  • The infantry were equipped with flame throwers.步兵都装备有喷火器。
  • We have less infantry than the enemy.我们的步兵比敌人少。
3 barrage
n.火力网,弹幕
  • The attack jumped off under cover of a barrage.进攻在炮火的掩护下开始了。
  • The fierce artillery barrage destroyed the most part of the city in a few minutes.猛烈的炮火几分钟内便毁灭了这座城市的大部分地区。
4 recoiled
v.畏缩( recoil的过去式和过去分词 );退缩;报应;返回
  • She recoiled from his touch. 她躲开他的触摸。
  • Howard recoiled a little at the sharpness in my voice. 听到我的尖声,霍华德往后缩了一下。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 mattress
n.床垫,床褥
  • The straw mattress needs to be aired.草垫子该晾一晾了。
  • The new mattress I bought sags in the middle.我买的新床垫中间陷了下去。
学英语单词
accreased
acute respiratory failure
advice of authority to pay
aftercoming head
agremonine
airscrew hub
alluvial channel
American craneberrybush
areche
article generation
artificial compost
ballast trim
barometric disturbance
carpencloth
chittamwood
collecting conveyor
colocdyspepsia
condensed milk flavour
crop residue management
D antiscorbutic vitamin
decimeter tube
decision of court
detail logic diagram
double aperture seal
down draught porducer
dunums
Dycloninum
electric elevator
elevator gear reducer box
end point control
experimental surgery
FAMME
fault modes and effect analysis
fire the whole nation with enthusiasm
Fonseca, Gulf of
frequency switching
Gedrosia
globigerina type
grammatical inference by induction
gravity abutment of arch dam
heterogeneous flow
horizontal bars
horizontal control network
human factors society
humoes
hygromas
iextended range floating point interpretive system
in-fighting
intesinal tympanites
ischiotrochantericus muscle
kicksorters
klesert
lalopathy
loop plan
maestra
magnetic iron oxide red
master plot plan
mean fraction of losses
momie weave
morrells
nafis
package counter
Parbenyl
Parotid-Masseteric
pericorneal
phosphodiester bond
pirkl
poiyarthritis rheumatica acuta
Pope Alexander VI
Port Canning
preamplifier filter
preheating furnace fan
radioassayed
reactor output
regeneration of used oil
result function
riveting in rows
sacral crest
selectnet
self-efficacies
serverless computing
shift the blame on to someone
slateblue
snow park
spread spectrum transmission
squirearch
straddle mounted type
stream of
structure isomerisola
subxerophilous primary forest
tailfirst
tanases
testamentum nuncupativum
to keep it real
twezers
two-variable
underlying colour
value of merchandise imports
velleity
winey
xxiier
Zionized