【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER TWO（5）
时间：2018-12-31 作者：英语课 分类：有声英语文学名著
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Her younger sister, Marianne, a happily married nurse with a new
baby, would come round at nights just to gloat at mum and dad‘s golden girl brought low.
But every now and then, there was Dexter Mayhew. In the last few warm days of the
summer after graduation she had gone to stay at his family‘s beautiful house in Oxfordshire;
not a house, but a mansion to her eyes. Large, 1920s, with faded rugs and large abstract
canvases and ice in the drinks. In the large, herb-scented garden they had spent a long,
languid day between the swimming pool and tennis court, the first she‘d ever seen that had
not been built by the local council. Drinking gin and tonics 1 in wicker chairs, looking at the
view, she had thought of The Great Gatsby. Of course she had spoiled it; getting nervous and
drinking too much at dinner, shouting at Dexter‘s father – a mild, modest, perfectly
reasonable man – about Nicaragua, while all the time Dexter regarded her with a look of
affectionate disappointment, as if she were a puppy who had soiled a rug. Had she really sat
at their table, eating their food and calling his father a fascist 2? That night she lay in the guest
bedroom, dazed and remorseful, waiting for a knock on the door that clearly would never
come; romantic hopes sacrificed for the Sandinistas, who were unlikely to be grateful.
baby, would come round at nights just to gloat at mum and dad‘s golden girl brought low.
But every now and then, there was Dexter Mayhew. In the last few warm days of the
summer after graduation she had gone to stay at his family‘s beautiful house in Oxfordshire;
not a house, but a mansion to her eyes. Large, 1920s, with faded rugs and large abstract
canvases and ice in the drinks. In the large, herb-scented garden they had spent a long,
languid day between the swimming pool and tennis court, the first she‘d ever seen that had
not been built by the local council. Drinking gin and tonics 1 in wicker chairs, looking at the
view, she had thought of The Great Gatsby. Of course she had spoiled it; getting nervous and
drinking too much at dinner, shouting at Dexter‘s father – a mild, modest, perfectly
reasonable man – about Nicaragua, while all the time Dexter regarded her with a look of
affectionate disappointment, as if she were a puppy who had soiled a rug. Had she really sat
at their table, eating their food and calling his father a fascist 2? That night she lay in the guest
bedroom, dazed and remorseful, waiting for a knock on the door that clearly would never
come; romantic hopes sacrificed for the Sandinistas, who were unlikely to be grateful.
n.滋补品( tonic的名词复数 )；主音；奎宁水；浊音
- I think you have a prejudice against tonics. 我认你对补药有偏见。 来自互联网
- Two gin and tonics, please. 请来两杯杜松子酒加奎宁水。 来自互联网