【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER TWO（9）
时间：2018-12-31 作者：英语课 分类：有声英语文学名著
英语课
And how is Rome? How is La Dolce Vita? (look it up). I imagine you right now at a café table,
drinking one of those ‘cappuccinos’ we hear so much about, and wolf-whistling at everything. You’re
probably wearing sunglasses to read this. Well take them off, you look ridiculous. Did you get the
books I sent you? Primo Levi is a fine Italian writer. It’s to remind you that life isn’t all gelati and
espadrilles. Life can’t always be like the opening of Betty Blue. And how is teaching? Please promise
me you’re not sleeping with your students. That would just be so . . . disappointing.
Must go now. Bottom of page looms 1, and in the other room I can hear the thrilling murmur 2 of our
audience as they throw chairs at each other. I finish this job in two weeks THANK GOD, then Gary
Nutkin, our director, wants me to devise a show for infantschools about Apartheid. With PUPPETS
for fuck’s sake. Six months in a Transit 3 on the M6 with a Desmond Tutu marionette 4 on my lap. I might
give that one a miss. Besides, I’ve written this two-woman play about Virginia Woolf and Emily
Dickinson called ‘Two Lives’ (either that or ‘Two Depressed 5 Lesbians’). Maybe I’ll put that on in a
pub-theatre somewhere. Once I’d explained to Candy who Virginia Woolf was, she said that she
really, really wanted to play her, but only if she can take her top off, so that’s the casting sorted. I’ll
be Emily Dickinson, and keep my top on. I’ll reserve you tickets.
n.织布机( loom的名词复数 )v.隐约出现，阴森地逼近( loom的第三人称单数 )；隐约出现，阴森地逼近
- All were busily engaged,men at their ploughs,women at their looms. 大家都很忙，男的耕田，女的织布。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The factory has twenty-five looms. 那家工厂有25台织布机。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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。
n.经过，运输；vt.穿越，旋转；vi.越过
- His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。
- The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。
n.木偶
- With this marionette I wish to travel through the world.我希望带着这个木偶周游世界。
- The development of marionette had a great influence on the future development of opera.木偶戏的发展对以后的戏曲有十分重要的影响。