时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:有声英语文学名著


英语课
You‘ve got to stop letting women slip drugs into your mouth, Dex, it‘s unhygienic. And dangerous. One day it‘ll be a cyanide capsule.‘
Dexter laughed. So do you want to hear what happened next?‘
She placed a finger on her chin. Do I? Nope, I don‘t think so. No, I don‘t.‘
But he told her anyway, the usual narrative 1 about dark back-rooms at clubs and late-night phone-calls and taxis across the city at dawn; the endless, eat-as-much-as-you-can buffet 2 that was  Dexter‘s  sex-life,  and  Emma  made  a  conscious  effort  not  to  listen  and  just  watch  his mouth instead.  It was a nice mouth as she remembered, and if she  were fearless, bold and asymmetrical 3 like this Naomi girl she would lean over now and kiss him, and it occurred to her that she had never kissed anyone, that is never  initiated  the kiss. She had been kissed of course, suddenly and far too hard by drunken boys at parties, kisses that came swinging out of nowhere like punches. Ian had tried three weeks ago while she was mopping out the meat locker 4,  looming  in  so  violently  that  she  had  thought  he  was  going  to  head -butt  her.  Even Dexter had kissed her once, many, many years ago. Would it really be so strange to kiss him back?  What  might  happen  if  she  were  to  do  it  now?  Take  the  initiative,  remove  your spectacles, hold onto his head while he‘s still talking and kiss him, kiss him—
—so Naomi calls at three in the morning, says, ―Get in a cab. Right. Now.‖‘
She had a perfectly 5 clear mental picture of him  wiping his mouth with the back of his hand: the kiss as custard-pie. She let her head loll to the other side to watch the others on the hill.  The  evening  light  was  starting  to  fade  now,  and  two  hundred  prosperous,  attractive young  people  were  throwing  frisbees,  lighting  disposable  barbecues,  making  plans  for  the evening. Yet she felt as far removed from these people, with their interesting careers and CD players and  mountain bikes, as if it had been a TV commercial, for vodka perhaps or small 
sporty cars. Why don‘t you come home, sweetheart,‘ her mother had said on the phone last night, Your room‘s still here . . .‘
She looked back to Dexter, still narrating 6 his own love-life, then over his shoulder at a 
young couple, kissing aggressively, the woman kneeling astride the man, his arms flung back in surrender, their fingers interlocked.

n.叙述,故事;adj.叙事的,故事体的
  • He was a writer of great narrative power.他是一位颇有记述能力的作家。
  • Neither author was very strong on narrative.两个作者都不是很善于讲故事。
n.自助餐;饮食柜台;餐台
  • Are you having a sit-down meal or a buffet at the wedding?你想在婚礼中摆桌宴还是搞自助餐?
  • Could you tell me what specialties you have for the buffet?你能告诉我你们的自助餐有什么特色菜吗?
adj.不均匀的,不对称的
  • Most people's faces are asymmetrical.多数人的脸并不对称。
  • Folds may be gentle and symmetrical,or sharp and asymmetrical.褶皱可以是平缓而对称的,也可以是陡峭而非对称的。
n.更衣箱,储物柜,冷藏室,上锁的人
  • At the swimming pool I put my clothes in a locker.在游泳池我把衣服锁在小柜里。
  • He moved into the locker room and began to slip out of his scrub suit.他走进更衣室把手术服脱下来。
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。
v.故事( narrate的现在分词 )
  • She entertained them by narrating her adventures in Africa. 她讲述她在非洲的历险来使他们开心。
  • [Mike Narrating] Worm and I fall into our old rhythm like Clyde Frazier and Pearl Monroe. [迈克叙述] 虫子和我配合得象以前一样默契我们两好象是克莱德。弗瑞泽和佩尔。门罗。 来自电影对白
学英语单词
acetylphosphoric acid
approbated
arteriola efferens
assembler loader package
babusar pass
basivolsella
beef stroganoffs
biosphere reserve
black teals
blandished
board bridge
breanna
calcium pyrophosphate
chemical insecticide
clear panel key
colouring book
computer forensics
cool-summer damage due to impotency
Cuproartinite
customs compound
customs supervision
decaudates
direct current source
documents-against-payment bill
DTRTT
electric resistance wire
enthalpy-entropy chart
excess mean portfolio return
firmware support
food-purchasing
four-address code
friction pressure
ghiaour
greys
Hawkins Point
hedonic price method
high-tempreature strain gauge
hovde
hyperpipecolatemia
intraploidy
job-lot production
kellwood
Keota
Koh Sla, Stung
lightly deformed crystal
lindeberg's condition
liquefaction temperature
Lloyd's anchors and chains proved
Loxwood
lymphonoduli aggregati
Madipelesa
magnaliums
mark sth up
megawatt (mw)
micromechanically
momentum cutoff
muhs
myristicic acid
nonutilized
obituarial
OGRL
Omlet
on-line cipher
orbiculately
ortho-nitraniline
Os Draconis
philosoph
piratesses
possessive pronoun
pritchie
pseudoprognathism
pulpitless
Q clearance
R. M. S.
rauca
reattend
remote sensing for atmospheric pollution
residual current operated protective device
Rhododendron mainlingense
sassen
sea language
see ... do
self-redemptions
simple HISAM data base
Skave
steam water interface
steering gear tube cam
stratum compactum of integument
stress bolt
suicide bombing
synchronization
tatouay
Thai Ridgebacks
thorotrast
turite
type of machine
varnish-treated tape
vigna angulariss
wage tax
wheeler and dealer
worm-gears