时间:2019-02-17 作者:英语课 分类:《海底两万里》中英双语有声读物


英语课

   I kept quiet, with good reason.


  我故意不回答。
  What was the use of debating such a proposition, when superior force can wipe out the best arguments?
  因为碰到蛮不讲理的时候,再来讨论这类题目还有什么意义呢?
  It took me a good while to decide, the commander went on. Nothing obliged me to grant you hospitality.
  我犹豫了很久,船长又说,我没有任何义务接待你们。
  If I were to part company with you, I'd have no personal interest in ever seeing you again.
  如果我要撇开你们,我就不想再来看你们了。
  I could put you back on the platform of this ship that has served as your refuge.
  我会把际们重新放在曾经作为你们避难所的这只船的平台上,
  I could sink under the sea, and I could forget you ever existed. Wouldn't that be my right?
  就当你们没有存在一样,只管潜入海中。难道我没有这样的权利吗?
  Perhaps it would be the right of a savage 1, I replied. But not that of a civilized 2 man.
  这也许是野蛮人的权利,我答,而不是文明人的权利。
  Professor, the commander replied swiftly, I'm not what you term a civilized man!
  教授先生,船长很激动地回答,我不是你们所说的文明人,
  I've severed 3 all ties with society, for reasons that I alone have the right to appreciate.
  为了我个人才能感觉到的理由,我跟整个人类社会断绝了关系。
  Therefore I obey none of its regulations, and I insist that you never invoke 4 them in front of me!
  所以我不服从人类社会的法规。希望您以后不要再在我面前提这些东西了。

adj.野蛮的;凶恶的,残暴的;n.未开化的人
  • The poor man received a savage beating from the thugs.那可怜的人遭到暴徒的痛打。
  • He has a savage temper.他脾气粗暴。
a.有教养的,文雅的
  • Racism is abhorrent to a civilized society. 文明社会憎恶种族主义。
  • rising crime in our so-called civilized societies 在我们所谓文明社会中日益增多的犯罪行为
v.切断,断绝( sever的过去式和过去分词 );断,裂
  • The doctor said I'd severed a vessel in my leg. 医生说我割断了腿上的一根血管。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • We have severed diplomatic relations with that country. 我们与那个国家断绝了外交关系。 来自《简明英汉词典》
v.求助于(神、法律);恳求,乞求
  • Let us invoke the blessings of peace.让我们祈求和平之福。
  • I hope I'll never have to invoke this clause and lodge a claim with you.我希望我永远不会使用这个条款向你们索赔。
学英语单词
abuses of discretion
accessory auricle
acetylbenzoie acid
aeronautical telecommunication service
alternating-current transformer
anode oxidation
Aristides The Just
assumption of nearest neighbours
auxiliary engine logbook
baalbeks
backward set
benefit market segmentation
bessonov
black-winged stilt
body odour
bookingoffice
Cidade Universitária
circular trench manuring
coal sizes
common plantar digital nerve of lateral plantar nerve
common watercresses
cost of living escalator clause
designated contract
digital light processing projector
disclaimatory
dragoon sb into doing sth
dream theory
dsviewer
efficiency-wage hypothesis
electrical fan
electro-forming
entry for a renewal note
Euphrasia amurensis
femto-lumens
ferriter
fibroxanthomata
floriferousness
Flutan
forward buying
French Lessons
ger-delay circuit
giacumbert
got into
grabbling
granulous structure
handle with great care
highway cost
in a fine pickle
independent decision making
inexorability
Jarman
karlskronas
klingmen
laser signal
leachatest
leaching of calcium
limitlessly
loses ground
main clause
Mare Humorum
mattype
medullated nerve fibers
millions of people
minielectrode
modosc (modulator oscillator)
molding board
multiple arc circuit
muscular part of interventricular septum
naval brass (admiralty brass)
nonproblem
ophiocarpa
ostrich farm
outdents
outlet air velocity
pipeline searching
plane shock
playing about
polystichalbin
prostaglandin (pg)
Proteus americanus
pulse noise
quantitative gamma-ray log
rattakul
reargue
run off a draw
salpingoureterostomy
schoenoprasum
set in the narrow sense
shortened mcleod gage
Slutsky matrix
source-study
specific ion electrode
stem from something
student engineer
submentovertical
tenuousness
thunder against
tyronic
urophein
Vaccinium chaetothrix
Vladimirovtsi
What the plague!