英语听书《海底两万里》第503期 第31章 章鱼(11)
时间：2018-12-31 作者：英语课 分类：《海底两万里》中英双语有声读物
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I stared in my turn and couldn't keep back a movement of revulsion. 我上前一看，忍不住感到一阵恶心。
Before my eyes there quivered a horrible monster worthy 1 of a place among the most farfetched teratological legends. 在我的眼前，游动着一头可怕的完全配得上载入那些离奇怪诞的传说中的怪物。
It was a squid of colossal 2 dimensions, fully 3 eight meters long. 这是一条8米长的巨大的章鱼。
It was traveling backward with tremendous speed in the same direction as the Nautilus. 它非常迅速地往“鹦鹉螺号”船只的同一方向倒退走。
It gazed with enormous, staring eyes that were tinted 4 sea green. 它那巨大的海绿色眼睛盯着我们。
Its eight arms (or more accurately 5, feet) were rooted in its head, which has earned these animals the name cephalopod; 那八只长在头上、使它被称为头足动物的爪子，或者说八只脚，
its arms stretched a distance twice the length of its body and were writhing 6 like the serpentine 7 hair of the Furies. 伸展时相当于身体的两倍，像复仇三女神的头发一样扭动着。
You could plainly see its 250 suckers, arranged over the inner sides of its tentacles 8 and shaped like semispheric capsules. 我们清楚地看到它的两百五十个吸盘，呈半圆球状，排列在触脚的内侧。
Sometimes these suckers fastened onto the lounge window by creating vacuums against it. 有时，这些吸盘内形成真空紧紧地吸住客厅的玻璃。
The monster's mouth--a beak 9 made of horn and shaped like that of a parrot--opened and closed vertically 10. 这头怪物的嘴——像鹦鹉的喙一样是骨质的——垂直地一张一翕。
Its tongue, also of horn substance and armed with several rows of sharp teeth, would flicker 11 out from between these genuine shears 12. 它的骨质舌头上武装着好几排尖牙，颤动时活像一把真正的大铁剪。
What a freak of nature! 大自然是多离奇怪诞啊！
A bird's beak on a mollusk 13! 一只软体动物竟然长着一只鸟喙！
Its body was spindle-shaped and swollen 14 in the middle, a fleshy mass that must have weighed 20,000 to 25,000 kilograms. 它的身体成棱形，中间部位鼓起，形成一块重可达20000到25000公斤的肉。
adj.(of)值得的，配得上的；有价值的
- I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
- There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。
adj.异常的，庞大的
- There has been a colossal waste of public money.一直存在巨大的公款浪费。
- Some of the tall buildings in that city are colossal.那座城市里的一些高层建筑很庞大。
adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地
- The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
- They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
adv.准确地，精确地
- It is hard to hit the ball accurately.准确地击中球很难。
- Now scientists can forecast the weather accurately.现在科学家们能准确地预报天气。
（因极度痛苦而）扭动或翻滚( writhe的现在分词 )
- She was writhing around on the floor in agony. 她痛得在地板上直打滚。
- He was writhing on the ground in agony. 他痛苦地在地上打滚。
adj.蜿蜒的，弯曲的
- One part of the Serpentine is kept for swimmers.蜿蜒河的一段划为游泳区。
- Tremolite laths and serpentine minerals are present in places.有的地方出现透闪石板条及蛇纹石。
n.触手( tentacle的名词复数 )；触角；触须；触毛
- Tentacles of fear closed around her body. 恐惧的阴影笼罩着她。
- Many molluscs have tentacles. 很多软体动物有触角。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.鸟嘴，茶壶嘴，钩形鼻
- The bird had a worm in its beak.鸟儿嘴里叼着一条虫。
- This bird employs its beak as a weapon.这种鸟用嘴作武器。
adv.垂直地
- Line the pages for the graph both horizontally and vertically.在这几页上同时画上横线和竖线，以便制作图表。
- The human brain is divided vertically down the middle into two hemispheres.人脑从中央垂直地分为两半球。
vi./n.闪烁，摇曳，闪现
- There was a flicker of lights coming from the abandoned house.这所废弃的房屋中有灯光闪烁。
- At first,the flame may be a small flicker,barely shining.开始时，光辉可能是微弱地忽隐忽现，几乎并不灿烂。
n.大剪刀
- These garden shears are lightweight and easy to use.这些园丁剪刀又轻又好用。
- With a few quick snips of the shears he pruned the bush.他用大剪刀几下子就把灌木给修剪好了。
n.软体动物
- I swear I have never seen such a mollusk with thorns all over its body.我敢发誓我从来没有见过这种全身长满棘刺的软体动物。
- The colour varies with the mollusk and its environment.颜色因母体及其环境的不同而异。
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