【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER FOUR（7）
时间：2018-12-31 作者：英语课 分类：有声英语文学名著
英语课
So, Ian, can we get two, no, three of the ―Remember the Alamo‖ margaritas. Two or three? Em, are you joining us?‘
Dexter, I told you. I‘m working.‘
Okay, in that case, do you know what? We‘ll leave it then. Just the bill, please, um . . .‘ Ian left and Dexter beckoned 1 to Emma and in a low voice said, ‗Hey, look, is there any way I can, you know . . .‘
What?‘
Give you the money for the drinks.‘
Emma stared blankly. I don‘t understand.‘
What I mean is, is there any way I can, you know, tip you?‘
Tip me?‘
Exactly. Tip you.‘
Why?‘
No reason, Em,‘ said Dex. I just really, really want to tip you,‘ and Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away.
On Primrose 2 Hill, Dexter slept in the evening sun, shirt unbuttoned, hands beneath his head, a half-empty bottle of grocer‘s white wine warming by his side as he slipped from the hangover of the afternoon into drunkenness again. The parched 3 yellow grass of the hill was crowded with young professional people, many straight from their offices, talking and laughing as three different stereos competed with each other, and Dexter lay in the centre of it all and dreamt about television.
The idea of being a professional photographer had been abandoned without much of a fight. He knew that he was a decent amateur, probably always would be, but to become exceptional, a Cartier-Bresson, a Capa or a Brandt, would require toil 4, rejection 5 and struggle,and he wasn‘t sure if struggle suited him. Television, on the other hand, television wanted him right now. Why hadn‘t he thought of it before? Growing up there had always been a television in the home, but there was something a little unwholesome about watching the thing. Now, in the last nine months it had suddenly come to dominate his life. He was a convert, and with the passion of the new recruit he found himself getting quite emotional about the medium, as if he had finally found a spiritual home.
And no, it didn‘t have the arty gleam of photography or the credibility of reporting from a war zone, but TV mattered, TV was the future.
v.（用头或手的动作）示意，召唤( beckon的过去式和过去分词 )
- He beckoned to the waiter to bring the bill. 他招手示意服务生把账单送过来。
- The seated figure in the corner beckoned me over. 那个坐在角落里的人向我招手让我过去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.樱草，最佳部分，
- She is in the primrose of her life.她正处在她一生的最盛期。
- The primrose is set off by its nest of green.一窝绿叶衬托着一朵樱草花。
adj.焦干的；极渴的；v.（使）焦干
- Hot winds parched the crops.热风使庄稼干透了。
- The land in this region is rather dry and parched.这片土地十分干燥。
vi.辛劳工作，艰难地行动；n.苦工，难事
- The wealth comes from the toil of the masses.财富来自大众的辛勤劳动。
- Every single grain is the result of toil.每一粒粮食都来之不易。