时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:有声英语文学名著


英语课

 They are in the botanical garden, near the Cathedral of All Saints. She sees one tear and leans forward and licks it, taking it into her mouth.( As she has taken the blood from his hand when he cut himself cooking for her. Blood. Tear.) He feels everything is missing from his body, feels he contains smoke. All that is alive is the knowledge of future desire and want. What he would say he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. (He cannot alter what he loves most in her, her lack of compromise, where the romance of the poems she loves still sits with ease in the real world. Outside these qualities he knows there is no order in the world. This night of her insistence 1


Twenty-eighth of September. The rain in the trees already dried by hot moonlight. Not one cool drop to fall down upon him like a tear. This parting at Groppi Park. He has not asked if her husband is home in that high square of light, across the street. He sees the tall row of traveller’s palms above them, their outstretched wrists. The way her head and hair were above him, when she was his lover. )
Now there is no kiss. Just one embrace. He untugs himself from her and walks away, then turns. She is still there. He comes back within a few yards of her, one finger raised to make a point. “I just want you to know. I don’t miss you yet.” His face awful to her, trying to smile. (Her head sweeps away from him and hits the side of the gatepost. He sees it hurt her, notices the wince 2. But they have separated already into themselves now, the walls up at her insistence. Her jerk, her pain, is accidental, is intentional 3. Her hand is near her temple. )

1 insistence
n.坚持;强调;坚决主张
  • They were united in their insistence that she should go to college.他们一致坚持她应上大学。
  • His insistence upon strict obedience is correct.他坚持绝对服从是对的。
2 wince
n.畏缩,退避,(因痛苦,苦恼等)面部肌肉抽动;v.畏缩,退缩,退避
  • The barb of his wit made us wince.他那锋芒毕露的机智使我们退避三舍。
  • His smile soon modified to a wince.他的微笑很快就成了脸部肌肉的抽搐。
3 intentional
adj.故意的,有意(识)的
  • Let me assure you that it was not intentional.我向你保证那不是故意的。
  • His insult was intentional.他的侮辱是有意的。
学英语单词
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access function
acid resisting casting
active group
airborne laser absorption spectrometer
algebraic oriented language
aluminium-clad rod
animal power
back pressure regulator
back transient
bag bellows
balance brought down
benzylchlorophenol
breiter grieskogel
Caluso
capsella bursa-pastoris (l.) medic.?
carbon alloy
charcoal saturation time
church's
colour difference acuity
computer supervusory control systems
cooling towers
Corymbus
counter-espionages
cronan
crossed metastasis
de-humanisings
denny
di-s
disseminated necrotizing periarteritis
double-chamber vacuum packaging machine
electrochromic dye
erolia alpinas
FABERE
fleurs
fossors
frequency outage report
front area of the plant
gasification gallery
genus argynniss
go on the binge
hadeda
hayses
high-level message
hook-and-ladder company
hydraulic-feed
influences
inguinal falx
interrupt return instruction
Jefferee light valve
Kapetyn's star
Kissinger
Lasegue's syndrome
left junction
Littonia
logarithmic speed
lumina
maddow
main gear-box
Mannich reaction
mendham
midship line
misappraises
moment distribution
monobutyl phthalate
moua
non-canonical
non-symmetrical line
numb-ray
Obuchi Keizo
of late
Ok'umi
olympiques
opi
passive tank stabilization system
period of light
political elites
pretendants
prostrators
remedyless
repair of funnel chest
ry
Saussurea centiloba
sayability
side charged furnace
skansen
Southery
spark-coil leak detector
specimen collection
squared multiple correlation
the evening of an empire
time transaction
tongue clacking
transfer survey inmining district
transistor digit computer
Trichodactylidae
twin sister
two-strike
vinegar of squill
volsella
warping lease
Yc-93