时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:有声英语文学名著


英语课

 Never  mind,  it  suited  him,  as  did  the  preponderance  of  young  women  like Naomi:  hard,  ambitious,  metropolitan.  In  rare  moments  of  self-doubt,  Dexter  had  once worried  that  a  lack  of  intellect  might  hold  him  back  in  life,  but  here  was  a  job  where confidence, energy, perhaps even a certain arrogance 1 were what mattered, all qualities that lay  within  his  grasp.  Yes,  you  had  to  be  smart,  but  not  Emma-smart.  Just  politic,  shrewd, ambitious.


He loved his new flat in nearby Belsize Park, all dark wood and gunmetal, and he loved London,  spread  out  vast  and  hazy  before  him  on  this  St  Swithin‘s  Day,  and  he  wanted  to share  all  this  excitement  with  Emma,  introduce  her  to  new  possibilities,  new  experiences, new  social  circles;  to  make  her  life  more  like  his  own.  Who  knows,  perhaps  Naomi  and Emma might even become friends.
Soothed 2 by these thoughts, and on the verge 3 of sleep, he was woken by a shadow across his face. He opened one eye, squinting 4 up.
Hello, beautiful.‘
Emma kicked him sharply in the hip 5.
Ow!‘
Don‘t you ever, ever do that again!‘
Do what?‘
You know what! Like I‘m in a zoo, you poking 6 me with a stick, laughing—‘
I wasn‘t laughing at you!‘
I watched you, sat straddling your girlfriend, chuckling 7 away—‘
She isn‘t my girlfriend, and we were laughing at the menu—‘
You were laughing at where I work.‘
So? You do!‘
Yes, because I  work  there. I‘m laughing in the face of adversity, you‘re just laughing in my face!‘
Em, I would never, ever—‘
That‘s what it feels like.‘
Well I apologise.‘
Good.‘ She folded her legs beneath her and sat next to him. Now do your shirt up and pass me the bottle.‘
And she really isn‘t my girlfriend.‘ He fastened three low shirt buttons, waiting for her to take the bait. When she didn‘t, he prodded 8 again. ‗We‘re just sleeping together every now and then, that‘s all.‘
As the possibility of a relationship had faded, Emma had endeavoured to harden herself to Dexter‘s  indifference  and  these  days  a  remark  like  this  caused  no  more  pain  than,  say,  a tennis  ball  thrown  sharply  at  the  back  of  her  head.  These  days  she  barely  even  flinched.

n.傲慢,自大
  • His arrogance comes out in every speech he makes.他每次讲话都表现得骄傲自大。
  • Arrogance arrested his progress.骄傲阻碍了他的进步。
v.安慰( soothe的过去式和过去分词 );抚慰;使舒服;减轻痛苦
  • The music soothed her for a while. 音乐让她稍微安静了一会儿。
  • The soft modulation of her voice soothed the infant. 她柔和的声调使婴儿安静了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
n.边,边缘;v.接近,濒临
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • She was on the verge of bursting into tears.她快要哭出来了。
斜视( squint的现在分词 ); 眯着眼睛; 瞟; 从小孔或缝隙里看
  • "More company," he said, squinting in the sun. "那边来人了,"他在阳光中眨巴着眼睛说。
  • Squinting against the morning sun, Faulcon examined the boy carefully. 对着早晨的太阳斜起眼睛,富尔康仔细地打量着那个年轻人。
n.臀部,髋;屋脊
  • The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
  • The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。
轻声地笑( chuckle的现在分词 )
  • I could hear him chuckling to himself as he read his book. 他看书时,我能听见他的轻声发笑。
  • He couldn't help chuckling aloud. 他忍不住的笑了出来。 来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
v.刺,戳( prod的过去式和过去分词 );刺激;促使;(用手指或尖物)戳
  • She prodded him in the ribs to wake him up. 她用手指杵他的肋部把他叫醒。
  • He prodded at the plate of fish with his fork. 他拿叉子戳弄着那盘鱼。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
aluminum gaskat
beyond bearing
Blackadder
blind-ending
broad leaved
cancel from an account
capital and liquidity requirement
cartridge filter
casting technique
chemisms
Chire (Shire), R.
circular-tool
cisternal
clangier
clasmatosis
coatable
coelosomus
collapse field of mangnetic bubble
continuous front slagging spout
conventional method
Coulmier-le-Sec
critical parameter of flow
Dakshin Jāmsa
debt-fuelled
depth of zone
deving
Dianthus ramosissimus
dieli
dimenhydrinates
dramseller
dropperful
economics of pasteurization
electro diagnosis
endear
eolian deposition
exceed-infiltration rainfall intensity
fairy armadillo
follow - up studies
fully-fledged
hells to pay
hydrogen-bridged ion
inter-industries
ion synergism
ISCCO
Jegłownik
journey to work
Kebayoran-Baru
land clearance
landing circle
law interpretation
legislative assembly
line of saturation
Lisfranc's joint
lovinia
LWYS
Lýtingstadhir
mangnetosonic wave
Mashu-ko
Mauriac, Claude
medial necrosis
Meloidae
melonite
metal pulverization
Min Min lights
Mokhsogollokh
monarchist
Montemurlo
Morse-Smale system
nauplia
naviculocuneiform
neotropical fauna
Newton's cradle
Nojon-bong
nuchas
oil of pepper
pile loading test
playfeer
pleomorphy
plunger assist mechanism
plyrating
postprandial hypoglycemia
power fail/auto restart
pre-breakdown state
present a paper
put in a hole
radiotelegraph installation
rate tracking
raunges
rocker of injector pump
rothsteins
rubber dingey
spraying nozzle
star tracking
sweet potato chip
templestowe
thermal neutron leakage factor
Thesium
ticilimumab
transverse electrooptic effect
unharmed fruit
uremic coma
white supremacists