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
advise about
albertines
algal polysaccharide
amplitude non-linearity
apple cider vinegars
ballotant
biopolis
bowl barrow
BSD (burst slug detector)
byte storage
Cadalen
career highlights
Central Prov.
chemical physiology
chui
clarkston
concrete curb
covasnas
Cyclobalanopsis edithiae
difference in colo(u)r
direct product of modules
dog and cat
duplex hook
emission spectrometry
exasparate
exchange efficiency
famine
feeding guide
ferriedenite
freshhood
full-server
garanbiensis
grammatical representation
grid-lead shield
hernan cortezs
high altitude anoxia
high density PVC tangle film
high test bleaching powder
Hijānah
holdenite
horizontal driver
ikke
in the fast lane
inlet well
instantaneous damper current
interrupted fine
julipe
kingy
kite's-foot
koshiba
L-ALA
larison
long journey
low cost module
market specialist
McKinlay R.
methylinositol
misylite
mixed-based number
muffe
Mui Hopohoponga
nano-steradians
needle-motion sensor
Neocallimastix
Neurectasis
off - the - shelf product
oscillator tuning
pepsinogen-ii
phasmid insects
picture-frequency adjustment
pleurobranchiae
polisography
polyphase relay
push socket
quartering attachment
radiated spar
rear stirrup
rear tapeman
reconnaissance balloon
self-contained drive pump
serverlet
sexupara
shoulder drops
sight hounds
spark plung
starter doughs
statistical interpolation method
subscribing
superficial flexor muscle of fingers
Swynnerton
Tamabo Ra.
temporary bond
tht
towel blanket
train running out
Transvaalian
truncation (of a string)
unribbed
vitrodurite
voice production
wehy
year-end substantive verification