时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:有声阅读空间


英语课

MONDAY morning found Tom Sawyer miserable 1. Monday morning always found him so -- because it began another week's slow suffering in school. He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity 2 and fetters 3 again so much more odious 4.


Tom lay thinking. Presently it occurred to him that he wished he was sick; then he could stay home from school. Here was a vague possibility. He canvassed 5 his system. No ailment 6 was found, and he investigated again. This time he thought he could detect colicky symptoms, and he began to encourage them with considerable hope. But they soon grew feeble, and presently died wholly away. He reflected further. Suddenly he discovered something. One of his upper front teeth was loose. This was lucky; he was about to begin to groan 8, as a "starter," as he called it, when it occurred to him that if he came into court with that argument, his aunt would pull it out, and that would hurt. So he thought he would hold the tooth in reserve for the present, and seek further. Nothing offered for some little time, and then he remembered hearing the doctor tell about a certain thing that laid up a patient for two or three weeks and threatened to make him lose a finger. So the boy eagerly drew his sore toe from under the sheet and held it up for inspection 9. But now he did not know the necessary symptoms. However, it seemed well worth while to chance it, so he fell to groaning 10 with considerable spirit.


But Sid slept on unconscious.


Tom groaned 11 louder, and fancied that he began to feel pain in the toe.


No result from Sid.


Tom was panting with his exertions 12 by this time. He took a rest and then swelled 13 himself up and fetched a succession of admirable groans 14.


Sid snored on.


Tom was aggravated 15. He said, "Sid, Sid!" and shook him. This course worked well, and Tom began to groan again. Sid yawned, stretched, then brought himself up on his elbow with a snort, and began to stare at Tom. Tom went on groaning. Sid said:


"Tom! Say, Tom!" [No response.] "Here, Tom! Tom! What is the matter, Tom?" And he shook him and looked in his face anxiously.


Tom moaned out:


"Oh, don't, Sid. Don't joggle me."


"Why, what's the matter, Tom? I must call auntie."


"No -- never mind. It'll be over by and by, maybe. Don't call anybody."


"But I must! don't groan so, Tom, it's awful. How long you been this way?"


"Hours. Ouch! Oh, don't stir so, Sid, you'll kill me."


"Tom, why didn't you wake me sooner ? Oh, Tom, don't! It makes my flesh crawl to hear you. Tom, what is the matter?"


"I forgive you everything, Sid. [Groan.] Everything you've ever done to me. When I'm gone --"


"Oh, Tom, you ain't dying, are you? Don't, Tom -- oh, don't. Maybe --"


"I forgive everybody, Sid. [Groan.] Tell 'em so, Sid. And Sid, you give my window-sash and my cat with one eye to that new girl that's come to town, and tell her --"


But Sid had snatched his clothes and gone. Tom was suffering in reality, now, so handsomely was his imagination working, and so his groans had gathered quite a genuine tone.


Sid flew down-stairs and said:


"Oh, Aunt Polly, come! Tom's dying!"


"Dying!"


"Yes'm. Don't wait -- come quick!"


"Rubbage! I don't believe it!"


But she fled up-stairs, nevertheless, with Sid and Mary at her heels. And her face grew white, too, and her lip trembled. When she reached the bedside she gasped 16 out:


"You, Tom! Tom, what's the matter with you?"


"Oh, auntie, I'm --"


"What's the matter with you -- what is the matter with you, child?"


"Oh, auntie, my sore toe's mortified 17!"


The old lady sank down into a chair and laughed a little, then cried a little, then did both together. This restored her and she said:


"Tom, what a turn you did give me. Now you shut up that nonsense and climb out of this."


The groans ceased and the pain vanished from the toe. The boy felt a little foolish, and he said:


"Aunt Polly, it seemed mortified, and it hurt so I never minded my tooth at all."


"Your tooth, indeed! What's the matter with your tooth?"


"One of them's loose, and it aches perfectly 18 awful."


"There, there, now, don't begin that groaning again. Open your mouth. Well -- your tooth is loose, but you're not going to die about that. Mary, get me a silk thread, and a chunk 19 of fire out of the kitchen."


Tom said:


"Oh, please, auntie, don't pull it out. It don't hurt any more. I wish I may never stir if it does. Please don't, auntie. I don't want to stay home from school."


"Oh, you don't, don't you? So all this row was because you thought you'd get to stay home from school and go a-fishing? Tom, Tom, I love you so, and you seem to try every way you can to break my old heart with your outrageousness 20." By this time the dental instruments were ready. The old lady made one end of the silk thread fast to Tom's tooth with a loop and tied the other to the bedpost. Then she seized the chunk of fire and suddenly thrust it almost into the boy's face. The tooth hung dangling 21 by the bedpost, now.


But all trials bring their compensations. As Tom wended to school after breakfast, he was the envy of every boy he met because the gap in his upper row of teeth enabled him to expectorate in a new and admirable way. He gathered quite a following of lads interested in the exhibition; and one that had cut his finger and had been a centre of fascination 22 and homage 23 up to this time, now found himself suddenly without an adherent 24, and shorn of his glory. His heart was heavy, and he said with a disdain 25 which he did not feel that it wasn't anything to spit like Tom Sawyer; but another boy said, "Sour grapes!" and he wandered away a dismantled 26 hero.


Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile 27 pariah 28 of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard. Huckleberry was cordially hated and dreaded 30 by all the mothers of the town, because he was idle and lawless and vulgar and bad -- and because all their children admired him so, and delighted in his forbidden society, and wished they dared to be like him. Tom was like the rest of the respectable boys, in that he envied Huckleberry his gaudy 31 outcast condition, and was under strict orders not to play with him. So he played with him every time he got a chance. Huckleberry was always dressed in the cast-off clothes of full-grown men, and they were in perennial 32 bloom and fluttering with rags. His hat was a vast ruin with a wide crescent lopped out of its brim; his coat, when he wore one, hung nearly to his heels and had the rearward buttons far down the back; but one suspender supported his trousers; the seat of the trousers bagged low and contained nothing, the fringed legs dragged in the dirt when not rolled up.


Huckleberry came and went, at his own free will. He slept on doorsteps in fine weather and in empty hogsheads in wet; he did not have to go to school or to church, or call any being master or obey anybody; he could go fishing or swimming when and where he chose, and stay as long as it suited him; nobody forbade him to fight; he could sit up as late as he pleased; he was always the first boy that went barefoot in the spring and the last to resume leather in the fall; he never had to wash, nor put on clean clothes; he could swear wonderfully. In a word, everything that goes to make life precious that boy had. So thought every harassed 33, hampered 34, respectable boy in St. Petersburg.


Tom hailed the romantic outcast:


"Hello, Huckleberry!"


"Hello yourself, and see how you like it."


"What's that you got?"


"Dead cat."


"Lemme see him, Huck. My, he's pretty stiff. Where'd you get him ?"


"Bought him off'n a boy."


"What did you give?"


"I give a blue ticket and a bladder that I got at the slaughter-house."


"Where'd you get the blue ticket?"


"Bought it off'n Ben Rogers two weeks ago for a hoop-stick."


"Say -- what is dead cats good for, Huck?"


"Good for? Cure warts 36 with."


"No! Is that so? I know something that's better."


"I bet you don't. What is it?"


"Why, spunk-water."


"Spunk-water! I wouldn't give a dern for spunk-water."


"You wouldn't, wouldn't you? D'you ever try it?"


"No, I hain't. But Bob Tanner did."


"Who told you so!"


"Why, he told Jeff Thatcher 37, and Jeff told Johnny Baker 38, and Johnny told Jim Hollis, and Jim told Ben Rogers, and Ben told a nigger, and the nigger told me. There now!"


"Well, what of it? They'll all lie. Leastways all but the nigger. I don't know him. But I never see a nigger that wouldn't lie. Shucks! Now you tell me how Bob Tanner done it, Huck."


"Why, he took and dipped his hand in a rotten stump 39 where the rain-water was."


"In the daytime?"


"Certainly."


"With his face to the stump?"


"Yes. Least I reckon so."


"Did he say anything?"


"I don't reckon he did. I don't know."


"Aha! Talk about trying to cure warts with spunk-water such a blame fool way as that! Why, that ain't a-going to do any good. You got to go all by yourself, to the middle of the woods, where you know there's a spunk-water stump, and just as it's midnight you back up against the stump and jam your hand in and say:


'Barley-corn, barley-corn, injun-meal shorts, Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these warts,'


and then walk away quick, eleven steps, with your eyes shut, and then turn around three times and walk home without speaking to anybody. Because if you speak the charm's busted 40."


"Well, that sounds like a good way; but that ain't the way Bob Tanner done."


"No, sir, you can bet he didn't, becuz he's the wartiest boy in this town; and he wouldn't have a wart 35 on him if he'd knowed how to work spunk-water. I've took off thousands of warts off of my hands that way, Huck. I play with frogs so much that I've always got considerable many warts. Sometimes I take 'em off with a bean."


"Yes, bean's good. I've done that."


"Have you? What's your way?"


"You take and split the bean, and cut the wart so as to get some blood, and then you put the blood on one piece of the bean and take and dig a hole and bury it 'bout 7 midnight at the crossroads in the dark of the moon, and then you burn up the rest of the bean. You see that piece that's got the blood on it will keep drawing and drawing, trying to fetch the other piece to it, and so that helps the blood to draw the wart, and pretty soon off she comes."


"Yes, that's it, Huck -- that's it; though when you're burying it if you say 'Down bean; off wart; come no more to bother me!' it's better. That's the way Joe Harper does, and he's been nearly to Coonville and most everywheres. But say -- how do you cure 'em with dead cats?"


"Why, you take your cat and go and get in the graveyard 41 'long about midnight when somebody that was wicked has been buried; and when it's midnight a devil will come, or maybe two or three, but you can't see 'em, you can only hear something like the wind, or maybe hear 'em talk; and when they're taking that feller away, you heave your cat after 'em and say, 'Devil follow corpse 42, cat follow devil, warts follow cat, I'm done with ye!' That'll fetch any wart."


"Sounds right. D'you ever try it, Huck?"


"No, but old Mother Hopkins told me."


"Well, I reckon it's so, then. Becuz they say she's a witch."


"Say! Why, Tom, I KNOW she is. She witched pap. Pap says so his own self. He come along one day, and he see she was a-witching him, so he took up a rock, and if she hadn't dodged 43, he'd a got her. Well, that very night he rolled off'n a shed wher' he was a layin drunk, and broke his arm."


"Why, that's awful. How did he know she was a-witching him?"


"Lord, pap can tell, easy. Pap says when they keep looking at you right stiddy, they're a-witching you. Specially 44 if they mumble 45. Becuz when they mumble they're saying the Lord's Prayer backards."


"Say, Hucky, when you going to try the cat?"


"To-night. I reckon they'll come after old Hoss Williams to-night."


"But they buried him Saturday. Didn't they get him Saturday night?"


"Why, how you talk! How could their charms work till midnight? -- and then it's Sunday. Devils don't slosh around much of a Sunday, I don't reckon."


"I never thought of that. That's so. Lemme go with you?"


"Of course -- if you ain't afeard."


"Afeard! 'Tain't likely. Will you meow?"


"Yes -- and you meow back, if you get a chance. Last time, you kep' me a-meowing around till old Hays went to throwing rocks at me and says 'Dern that cat!' and so I hove a brick through his window -- but don't you tell."


"I won't. I couldn't meow that night, becuz auntie was watching me, but I'll meow this time. Say -- what's that?"


"Nothing but a tick."


"Where'd you get him?"


"Out in the woods."


"What'll you take for him?"


"I don't know. I don't want to sell him."


"All right. It's a mighty 46 small tick, anyway."


"Oh, anybody can run a tick down that don't belong to them. I'm satisfied with it. It's a good enough tick for me."


"Sho, there's ticks a plenty. I could have a thousand of 'em if I wanted to."


"Well, why don't you? Becuz you know mighty well you can't. This is a pretty early tick, I reckon. It's the first one I've seen this year."


"Say, Huck -- I'll give you my tooth for him."


"Less see it."


Tom got out a bit of paper and carefully unrolled it. Huckleberry viewed it wistfully. The temptation was very strong. At last he said:


"Is it genuwyne?"


Tom lifted his lip and showed the vacancy 47.


"Well, all right," said Huckleberry, "it's a trade."


Tom enclosed the tick in the percussion-cap box that had lately been the pinchbug's prison, and the boys separated, each feeling wealthier than before.


When Tom reached the little isolated 48 frame schoolhouse, he strode in briskly, with the manner of one who had come with all honest speed. He hung his hat on a peg 49 and flung himself into his seat with business-like alacrity 50. The master, throned on high in his great splint-bottom arm-chair, was dozing 51, lulled 52 by the drowsy 53 hum of study. The interruption roused him.


"Thomas Sawyer!"


Tom knew that when his name was pronounced in full, it meant trouble.


"Sir!"


"Come up here. Now, sir, why are you late again, as usual?"


Tom was about to take refuge in a lie, when he saw two long tails of yellow hair hanging down a back that he recognized by the electric sympathy of love; and by that form was the only vacant place on the girls' side of the school-house. He instantly said:


"I STOPPED TO TALK WITH HUCKLEBERRY FINN!"


The master's pulse stood still, and he stared helplessly. The buzz of study ceased. The pupils wondered if this foolhardy boy had lost his mind. The master said:


"You -- you did what?"


"Stopped to talk with Huckleberry Finn."


There was no mistaking the words.


"Thomas Sawyer, this is the most astounding 54 confession 55 I have ever listened to. No mere 56 ferule will answer for this offence. Take off your jacket."


The master's arm performed until it was tired and the stock of switches notably 57 diminished. Then the order followed:


"Now, sir, go and sit with the girls! And let this be a warning to you."


The titter that rippled 58 around the room appeared to abash 59 the boy, but in reality that result was caused rather more by his worshipful awe 60 of his unknown idol 61 and the dread 29 pleasure that lay in his high good fortune. He sat down upon the end of the pine bench and the girl hitched 62 herself away from him with a toss of her head. Nudges and winks 63 and whispers traversed the room, but Tom sat still, with his arms upon the long, low desk before him, and seemed to study his book.


By and by attention ceased from him, and the accustomed school murmur 64 rose upon the dull air once more. Presently the boy began to steal furtive 65 glances at the girl. She observed it, "made a mouth" at him and gave him the back of her head for the space of a minute. When she cautiously faced around again, a peach lay before her. She thrust it away. Tom gently put it back. She thrust it away again, but with less animosity. Tom patiently returned it to its place. Then she let it remain. Tom scrawled 67 on his slate 68, "Please take it -- I got more." The girl glanced at the words, but made no sign. Now the boy began to draw something on the slate, hiding his work with his left hand. For a time the girl refused to notice; but her human curiosity presently began to manifest itself by hardly perceptible signs. The boy worked on, apparently 69 unconscious. The girl made a sort of non-committal attempt to see, but the boy did not betray that he was aware of it. At last she gave in and hesitatingly whispered:


"Let me see it."


Tom partly uncovered a dismal 70 caricature of a house with two gable ends to it and a corkscrew of smoke issuing from the chimney. Then the girl's interest began to fasten itself upon the work and she forgot everything else. When it was finished, she gazed a moment, then whispered:


"It's nice -- make a man."


The artist erected 71 a man in the front yard, that resembled a derrick. He could have stepped over the house; but the girl was not hypercritical; she was satisfied with the monster, and whispered:


"It's a beautiful man -- now make me coming along."


Tom drew an hour-glass with a full moon and straw limbs to it and armed the spreading fingers with a portentous 72 fan. The girl said:


"It's ever so nice -- I wish I could draw."


"It's easy," whispered Tom, "I'll learn you."


"Oh, will you? When?"


"At noon. Do you go home to dinner?"


"I'll stay if you will."


"Good -- that's a whack 73. What's your name?"


"Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer."


"That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?"


"Yes."


Now Tom began to scrawl 66 something on the slate, hiding the words from the girl. But she was not backward this time. She begged to see. Tom said:


"Oh, it ain't anything."


"Yes it is."


"No it ain't. You don't want to see."


"Yes I do, indeed I do. Please let me."


"You'll tell."


"No I won't -- deed and deed and double deed won't."


"You won't tell anybody at all? Ever, as long as you live?"


"No, I won't ever tell anybody. Now let me."


"Oh, you don't want to see!"


"Now that you treat me so, I will see." And she put her small hand upon his and a little scuffle ensued, Tom pretending to resist in earnest but letting his hand slip by degrees till these words were revealed: "I love you."


"Oh, you bad thing!" And she hit his hand a smart rap, but reddened and looked pleased, nevertheless.


Just at this juncture 74 the boy felt a slow, fateful grip closing on his ear, and a steady lifting impulse. In that vise he was borne across the house and deposited in his own seat, under a peppering fire of giggles 75 from the whole school. Then the master stood over him during a few awful moments, and finally moved away to his throne without saying a word. But although Tom's ear tingled 76, his heart was jubilant.


As the school quieted down Tom made an honest effort to study, but the turmoil 77 within him was too great. In turn he took his place in the reading class and made a botch of it; then in the geography class and turned lakes into mountains, mountains into rivers, and rivers into continents, till chaos 78 was come again; then in the spelling class, and got "turned down," by a succession of mere baby words, till he brought up at the foot and yielded up the pewter medal which he had worn with ostentation 79 for months.



adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的
  • It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他,这是可耻的。
  • Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。
n.囚禁;被俘;束缚
  • A zoo is a place where live animals are kept in captivity for the public to see.动物园是圈养动物以供公众观看的场所。
  • He was held in captivity for three years.他被囚禁叁年。
n.脚镣( fetter的名词复数 );束缚v.给…上脚镣,束缚( fetter的第三人称单数 )
  • They were at last freed from the fetters of ignorance. 他们终于从愚昧无知的束缚中解脱出来。
  • They will run wild freed from the fetters of control. 他们一旦摆脱了束缚,就会变得无法无天。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.可憎的,讨厌的
  • The judge described the crime as odious.法官称这一罪行令人发指。
  • His character could best be described as odious.他的人格用可憎来形容最贴切。
v.(在政治方面)游说( canvass的过去式和过去分词 );调查(如选举前选民的)意见;为讨论而提出(意见等);详细检查
  • He canvassed the papers, hunting for notices of jobs. 他仔细查阅报纸,寻找招工广告。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • The stirring event was well canvassed. 那桩惊人的事情已经是满城风雨。 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
n.疾病,小病
  • I don't have even the slightest ailment.我什么毛病也没有。
  • He got timely treatment for his ailment.他的病得到了及时治疗。
n.侵袭,发作;一次(阵,回);拳击等比赛
  • I was suffering with a bout of nerves.我感到一阵紧张。
  • That bout of pneumonia enfeebled her.那次肺炎的发作使她虚弱了。
vi./n.呻吟,抱怨;(发出)呻吟般的声音
  • The wounded man uttered a groan.那个受伤的人发出呻吟。
  • The people groan under the burden of taxes.人民在重税下痛苦呻吟。
n.检查,审查,检阅
  • On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查,发现肉变质了。
  • The soldiers lined up for their daily inspection by their officers.士兵们列队接受军官的日常检阅。
v.呻吟( groan的过去式和过去分词 );发牢骚;抱怨;受苦
  • He groaned in anguish. 他痛苦地呻吟。
  • The cart groaned under the weight of the piano. 大车在钢琴的重压下嘎吱作响。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.努力( exertion的名词复数 );费力;(能力、权力等的)运用;行使
  • As long as they lived, exertions would not be necessary to her. 只要他们活着,是不需要她吃苦的。 来自辞典例句
  • She failed to unlock the safe in spite of all her exertions. 她虽然费尽力气,仍未能将那保险箱的锁打开。 来自辞典例句
增强( swell的过去式和过去分词 ); 肿胀; (使)凸出; 充满(激情)
  • The infection swelled his hand. 由于感染,他的手肿了起来。
  • After the heavy rain the river swelled. 大雨过后,河水猛涨。
n.呻吟,叹息( groan的名词复数 );呻吟般的声音v.呻吟( groan的第三人称单数 );发牢骚;抱怨;受苦
  • There were loud groans when he started to sing. 他刚开始歌唱时有人发出了很大的嘘声。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • It was a weird old house, full of creaks and groans. 这是所神秘而可怕的旧宅,到处嘎吱嘎吱作响。 来自《简明英汉词典》
使恶化( aggravate的过去式和过去分词 ); 使更严重; 激怒; 使恼火
  • If he aggravated me any more I shall hit him. 假如他再激怒我,我就要揍他。
  • Far from relieving my cough, the medicine aggravated it. 这药非但不镇咳,反而使我咳嗽得更厉害。
v.喘气( gasp的过去式和过去分词 );喘息;倒抽气;很想要
  • She gasped at the wonderful view. 如此美景使她惊讶得屏住了呼吸。
  • People gasped with admiration at the superb skill of the gymnasts. 体操运动员的高超技艺令人赞叹。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
v.使受辱( mortify的过去式和过去分词 );伤害(人的感情);克制;抑制(肉体、情感等)
  • She was mortified to realize he had heard every word she said. 她意识到自己的每句话都被他听到了,直羞得无地自容。
  • The knowledge of future evils mortified the present felicities. 对未来苦难的了解压抑了目前的喜悦。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地
  • The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
  • Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。
n.厚片,大块,相当大的部分(数量)
  • They had to be careful of floating chunks of ice.他们必须当心大块浮冰。
  • The company owns a chunk of farmland near Gatwick Airport.该公司拥有盖特威克机场周边的大片农田。
悬吊着( dangle的现在分词 ); 摆动不定; 用某事物诱惑…; 吊胃口
  • The tooth hung dangling by the bedpost, now. 结果,那颗牙就晃来晃去吊在床柱上了。
  • The children sat on the high wall,their legs dangling. 孩子们坐在一堵高墙上,摇晃着他们的双腿。
n.令人着迷的事物,魅力,迷恋
  • He had a deep fascination with all forms of transport.他对所有的运输工具都很着迷。
  • His letters have been a source of fascination to a wide audience.广大观众一直迷恋于他的来信。
n.尊敬,敬意,崇敬
  • We pay homage to the genius of Shakespeare.我们对莎士比亚的天才表示敬仰。
  • The soldiers swore to pay their homage to the Queen.士兵们宣誓效忠于女王陛下。
n.信徒,追随者,拥护者
  • He was most liberal where money would bring him a powerful or necessary political adherent.在金钱能够收买一个干练的或者必需的政治拥护者的地方,他是最不惜花钱的。
  • He's a pious adherent of Buddhism.他是一位虔诚的佛教徒。
n.鄙视,轻视;v.轻视,鄙视,不屑
  • Some people disdain labour.有些人轻视劳动。
  • A great man should disdain flatterers.伟大的人物应鄙视献媚者。
拆开( dismantle的过去式和过去分词 ); 拆卸; 废除; 取消
  • The plant was dismantled of all its equipment and furniture. 这家工厂的设备和家具全被拆除了。
  • The Japanese empire was quickly dismantled. 日本帝国很快被打垮了。
n.青少年,少年读物;adj.青少年的,幼稚的
  • For a grown man he acted in a very juvenile manner.身为成年人,他的行为举止显得十分幼稚。
  • Juvenile crime is increasing at a terrifying rate.青少年犯罪正在以惊人的速度增长。
n.被社会抛弃者
  • Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village.不一会儿,汤姆碰上了村里的少年弃儿。
  • His landlady had treated him like a dangerous criminal,a pariah.房东太太对待他就像对待危险的罪犯、对待社会弃儿一样。
vt.担忧,忧虑;惧怕,不敢;n.担忧,畏惧
  • We all dread to think what will happen if the company closes.我们都不敢去想一旦公司关门我们该怎么办。
  • Her heart was relieved of its blankest dread.她极度恐惧的心理消除了。
adj.令人畏惧的;害怕的v.害怕,恐惧,担心( dread的过去式和过去分词)
  • The dreaded moment had finally arrived. 可怕的时刻终于来到了。
  • He dreaded having to spend Christmas in hospital. 他害怕非得在医院过圣诞节不可。 来自《用法词典》
adj.华而不实的;俗丽的
  • She was tricked out in gaudy dress.她穿得华丽而俗气。
  • The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.浮华的蝴蝶却相信花是应该向它道谢的。
adj.终年的;长久的
  • I wonder at her perennial youthfulness.我对她青春常驻感到惊讶。
  • There's a perennial shortage of teachers with science qualifications.有理科教学资格的老师一直都很短缺。
妨碍,束缚,限制( hamper的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The search was hampered by appalling weather conditions. 恶劣的天气妨碍了搜寻工作。
  • So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg. 圣彼德堡镇的那些受折磨、受拘束的体面孩子们个个都是这么想的。
n.疣,肉赘;瑕疵
  • What does the medicaments with remedial acuteness wet best wart have?治疗尖锐湿疣最好的药物有什么?
  • Flat wart is generally superficial,or sometimes a slight itching.扁平疣一般是不痛不痒的,或偶有轻微痒感。
n.疣( wart的名词复数 );肉赘;树瘤;缺点
  • You agreed to marry me, warts and all! 是你同意和我结婚的,我又没掩饰缺陷。 来自辞典例句
  • Talk about trying to cure warts with spunk-water such a blame fool way as that! 用那样糊涂蛋的方法还谈什么仙水治疣子! 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
n.茅屋匠
  • Tom Sawyer was in the skiff that bore Judge Thatcher. 汤姆 - 索亚和撒切尔法官同乘一条小艇。 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
  • Mrs. Thatcher was almost crazed; and Aunt Polly, also. 撒切尔夫人几乎神经失常,还有波莉姨妈也是。 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
n.面包师
  • The baker bakes his bread in the bakery.面包师在面包房内烤面包。
  • The baker frosted the cake with a mixture of sugar and whites of eggs.面包师在蛋糕上撒了一层白糖和蛋清的混合料。
n.残株,烟蒂,讲演台;v.砍断,蹒跚而走
  • He went on the stump in his home state.他到故乡所在的州去发表演说。
  • He used the stump as a table.他把树桩用作桌子。
n.坟场
  • All the town was drifting toward the graveyard.全镇的人都象流水似地向那坟场涌过去。
  • Living next to a graveyard would give me the creeps.居住在墓地旁边会使我毛骨悚然。
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。
v.闪躲( dodge的过去式和过去分词 );回避
  • He dodged cleverly when she threw her sabot at him. 她用木底鞋砸向他时,他机敏地闪开了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He dodged the book that I threw at him. 他躲开了我扔向他的书。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adv.特定地;特殊地;明确地
  • They are specially packaged so that they stack easily.它们经过特别包装以便于堆放。
  • The machine was designed specially for demolishing old buildings.这种机器是专为拆毁旧楼房而设计的。
n./v.喃喃而语,咕哝
  • Her grandmother mumbled in her sleep.她祖母含混不清地说着梦话。
  • He could hear the low mumble of Navarro's voice.他能听到纳瓦罗在小声咕哝。
adj.强有力的;巨大的
  • A mighty force was about to break loose.一股巨大的力量即将迸发而出。
  • The mighty iceberg came into view.巨大的冰山出现在眼前。
n.(旅馆的)空位,空房,(职务的)空缺
  • Her going on maternity leave will create a temporary vacancy.她休产假时将会有一个临时空缺。
  • The vacancy of her expression made me doubt if she was listening.她茫然的神情让我怀疑她是否在听。
adj.与世隔绝的
  • His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
  • Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。
n.木栓,木钉;vt.用木钉钉,用短桩固定
  • Hang your overcoat on the peg in the hall.把你的大衣挂在门厅的挂衣钩上。
  • He hit the peg mightily on the top with a mallet.他用木槌猛敲木栓顶。
n.敏捷,轻快,乐意
  • Although the man was very old,he still moved with alacrity.他虽然很老,动作仍很敏捷。
  • He accepted my invitation with alacrity.他欣然接受我的邀请。
vt.使镇静,使安静(lull的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • They lulled her into a false sense of security. 他们哄骗她,使她产生一种虚假的安全感。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The movement of the train lulled me to sleep. 火车轻微的震动催我进入梦乡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.昏昏欲睡的,令人发困的
  • Exhaust fumes made him drowsy and brought on a headache.废气把他熏得昏昏沉沉,还引起了头疼。
  • I feel drowsy after lunch every day.每天午饭后我就想睡觉。
adj.使人震惊的vt.使震惊,使大吃一惊astound的现在分词)
  • There was an astounding 20% increase in sales. 销售量惊人地增加了20%。
  • The Chairman's remarks were so astounding that the audience listened to him with bated breath. 主席说的话令人吃惊,所以听众都屏息听他说。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.自白,供认,承认
  • Her confession was simply tantamount to a casual explanation.她的自白简直等于一篇即席说明。
  • The police used torture to extort a confession from him.警察对他用刑逼供。
adj.纯粹的;仅仅,只不过
  • That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不过是重复了你以前讲的话。
  • It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.再等下去纯粹是浪费时间。
adv.值得注意地,显著地,尤其地,特别地
  • Many students were absent,notably the monitor.许多学生缺席,特别是连班长也没来。
  • A notably short,silver-haired man,he plays basketball with his staff several times a week.他个子明显较为矮小,一头银发,每周都会和他的员工一起打几次篮球。
使泛起涟漪(ripple的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • The lake rippled gently. 湖面轻轻地泛起涟漪。
  • The wind rippled the surface of the cornfield. 微风吹过麦田,泛起一片麦浪。
v.使窘迫,使局促不安
  • Nothing could abash him.没有什么可以使他感到难堪。
  • When the child see all the room fille with strangers,he is much abash.那小孩一看到满屋子都是陌生人,感到非常局促不安。
n.敬畏,惊惧;vt.使敬畏,使惊惧
  • The sight filled us with awe.这景色使我们大为惊叹。
  • The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。
n.偶像,红人,宠儿
  • As an only child he was the idol of his parents.作为独子,他是父母的宠儿。
  • Blind worship of this idol must be ended.对这个偶像的盲目崇拜应该结束了。
(免费)搭乘他人之车( hitch的过去式和过去分词 ); 搭便车; 攀上; 跃上
  • They hitched a ride in a truck. 他们搭乘了一辆路过的货车。
  • We hitched a ride in a truck yesterday. 我们昨天顺便搭乘了一辆卡车。
v.使眼色( wink的第三人称单数 );递眼色(表示友好或高兴等);(指光)闪烁;闪亮
  • I'll feel much better when I've had forty winks. 我打个盹就会感到好得多。
  • The planes were little silver winks way out to the west. 飞机在西边老远的地方,看上去只是些很小的银色光点。 来自辞典例句
n.低语,低声的怨言;v.低语,低声而言
  • They paid the extra taxes without a murmur.他们毫无怨言地交了附加税。
  • There was a low murmur of conversation in the hall.大厅里有窃窃私语声。
adj.鬼鬼崇崇的,偷偷摸摸的
  • The teacher was suspicious of the student's furtive behaviour during the exam.老师怀疑这个学生在考试时有偷偷摸摸的行为。
  • His furtive behaviour aroused our suspicion.他鬼鬼祟祟的行为引起了我们的怀疑。
vt.潦草地书写;n.潦草的笔记,涂写
  • His signature was an illegible scrawl.他的签名潦草难以辨认。
  • Your beautiful handwriting puts my untidy scrawl to shame.你漂亮的字体把我的潦草字迹比得见不得人。
乱涂,潦草地写( scrawl的过去式和过去分词 )
  • I tried to read his directions, scrawled on a piece of paper. 我尽量弄明白他草草写在一片纸上的指示。
  • Tom scrawled on his slate, "Please take it -- I got more." 汤姆在他的写字板上写了几个字:“请你收下吧,我多得是哩。”
n.板岩,石板,石片,石板色,候选人名单;adj.暗蓝灰色的,含板岩的;vt.用石板覆盖,痛打,提名,预订
  • The nominating committee laid its slate before the board.提名委员会把候选人名单提交全体委员会讨论。
  • What kind of job uses stained wood and slate? 什么工作会接触木头污浊和石板呢?
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
adj.阴沉的,凄凉的,令人忧郁的,差劲的
  • That is a rather dismal melody.那是一支相当忧郁的歌曲。
  • My prospects of returning to a suitable job are dismal.我重新找到一个合适的工作岗位的希望很渺茫。
adj.不祥的,可怕的,装腔作势的
  • The present aspect of society is portentous of great change.现在的社会预示着重大变革的发生。
  • There was nothing portentous or solemn about him.He was bubbling with humour.他一点也不装腔作势或故作严肃,浑身散发着幽默。
v.敲击,重打,瓜分;n.重击,重打,尝试,一份
  • After years of dieting,Carol's metabolism was completely out of whack.经过数年的节食,卡罗尔的新陈代谢完全紊乱了。
  • He gave me a whack on the back to wake me up.他为把我弄醒,在我背上猛拍一下。
n.时刻,关键时刻,紧要关头
  • The project is situated at the juncture of the new and old urban districts.该项目位于新老城区交界处。
  • It is very difficult at this juncture to predict the company's future.此时很难预料公司的前景。
n.咯咯的笑( giggle的名词复数 );傻笑;玩笑;the giggles 止不住的格格笑v.咯咯地笑( giggle的第三人称单数 )
  • Her nervous giggles annoyed me. 她神经质的傻笑把我惹火了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I had to rush to the loo to avoid an attack of hysterical giggles. 我不得不冲向卫生间,以免遭到别人的疯狂嘲笑。 来自辞典例句
v.有刺痛感( tingle的过去式和过去分词 )
  • My cheeks tingled with the cold. 我的脸颊冻得有点刺痛。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The crowd tingled with excitement. 群众大为兴奋。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
n.骚乱,混乱,动乱
  • His mind was in such a turmoil that he couldn't get to sleep.内心的纷扰使他无法入睡。
  • The robbery put the village in a turmoil.抢劫使全村陷入混乱。
n.混乱,无秩序
  • After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后,城市一片混乱。
  • The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。
n.夸耀,卖弄
  • Choose a life of action,not one of ostentation.要选择行动的一生,而不是炫耀的一生。
  • I don't like the ostentation of their expensive life - style.他们生活奢侈,爱摆阔,我不敢恭维。
学英语单词
a bad hand at
Amankaragay
automatically repaired computer
auxanometer
baked beef
Bambi bucket
Benicito, R.
blatt
broadbrimmed
bulletin advertising
bum-rushes
capillary collector
capnodium footii
cardinality of a fuzzy set
cascais
casing test pressure
central business intensity index
claim for additional security
committee of school curriculum development
Concemin
conchords
corfing
dispence
Douglas SBD
exempt from filing annual income tax returns
exponential amplification
expropriate
free-radical oxidation
gas utility
gas-filled stabilizer
grain magnesite
grey decision
harboring
Healon
hebephrenias
high courts
histoincompatibilities
hounskull
hydrothermal eruption
individual identification method
inverse distributions
it is a wise child that knows his own father
jung's disease
Lapland owls
like a bullet
Microstegiums
miseducation
morphographic map
Ne.
neagtive quantity
neck rot
neodata
norise
novoyes
NTTP
onboard repair part
one-sigma estimate
one-thousandth
ordinary grip
oronotus alboannulatus
ossa vesalianum
PBIP
pecherz (pitchblende)
pedicular
pheochromocytoma of bladder
plain indexing
play the violin
pombgranade
Pope Day
presternoidea
prewired program
prohibitionists
Psetta maxima
psychologic warfare task
Ramus pharyngeus
right of innocent passage
satellite reflection
scale rudiment
Schlosser injection
SEELONCE
self healing ring
sequence zoom shooting
short-neeked fiask
sitcom
spontaneous-potential log
sport competition
street girls
take ... into custody
tedding
thaliphenine
theory of strength
tooth saturation
tornilla
tribrachs
tuber of dwarf lilyturf
ultrarun
update control
urea solution filter
variable format part description
Vibble
Waldorfian
webzines