时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:雾都孤儿.Oliver.Twist


英语课


2  Oliver’s first job 


 


Oliver stayed a prisoner alone in the dark room for a week. He cried bitterly all day,and when the long night came,he spread his little hands over his eyes to shut out the darkness, and tried to sleep.He was given freezing water to wash with,and was beaten daily by Mr Bumble in front of all the other boys in the hall,as a warning to the m. 


One day Mr Bumble met the local undertaker殡仪业者


,Mr Sowerberry,outside the workhouse. 


‘Do you know anybody who wants to train a boy for work,Mr Sowerberry?’Mr Bumble pointed 2 at the notice on the wall above him, which offered five pounds to anybody who would take Oliver Twist for work. 


Mr Sowerberry rubbed his chin and thought for a while. ‘I pay enough  for the poor with my taxes,’he said,‘so why shouldn’t I be able to make use of them in my work? Yes, I’ll take the boy myself.’ 


And so the board agreed to send Oliver to work for the undertaker.The necessary papers were signed.Oliver’s small possessions were put into a brown paper parcel,and he was led to Mr Sowerberry’s house by Mr Bumble.As They walked along,tears began to run down Oliver’s face. 


‘What is it this time?’asked Mr Bumble impatiently 3. ‘Don’t be so ungrateful.This gentleman is going to look after you.’  


‘It’s just that I’m so lonely,sir!’said the child.‘Everybody hates m


e.Please don’t be angry with me,sir!’ 


Even Mr Bumble felt a little pity. He coughed,told Oliver to dry his eyes and be a good boy, and walked on with him in silence. 


The undertaker had just finished work for the day when Mr Bumble entered his shop. 


‘Here,I’ve brought the boy,’ said the beadle. 


Oliver bowed to the undertaker,who raised his candle to get a better view of the boy. Mrs Sowerberry,’he called, ‘come and  have  a look.’ 


His wife,a short,thin woman with a disagreeable face,came out to see. ‘He’s very small,’she said immediately. 


‘He is,’agreed Mr Bumble,‘but he’ll grow,Mrs Sowerberry.’  


‘Yes,’she said crossly,‘when he eats our food. Go on,get downstairs.’ She pushed O liver 1 downstairs into a damp,dark kitchen,and called to the girl working down there. ‘Here,Charlotte,give this boy some meat that the dog left-if he thinks it’s good enough for him.’ 


Oliver tore the meat to pieces with his teeth as if he were a wild animal. Mrs Sowerberry watched him in silent horror,already thinking about her future food bills,then took him upstairs to the shop. 


‘You’ll sleep here, among the coffins 5,’she said. 


O liver stared around the dark,airless shop at the coffins,some finished,some only half-made.He trembled at the thought of ghosts.His bed was a small hole in the floor,and looked  very  like  a grave 6. 


But it was not only the room that depressed 7 Oliver.He felt very lonely,with no friends and no one to care for him. As he lay on the bed,he found himself wishing that it really was his grave.  


The next morning he was woken up by someone kicking at the shop door. 


‘Open the door,will you?’shouted a voice through  the keyhole. 


‘Yes,sir.’  


‘I suppose you’re the new boy,’said the voice through the keyhole. ‘How old are you?’ 


‘Ten, sir.’  


‘Then I’ll hit you when I get in,’said the voice. 


Oliver was experienced 8 enough to know that the promise was probably true. He opened the door with a shaking hand,then looked  up  and  down the street.All he could see was a large boy wearing the uniform of one of the charity schools,where the children of the very poor used to go. 


‘Did you want a coffin 4?’asked Oliver,innocently. 


The charity-boy looked at him fiercely. ‘You’ll be needing a coffin soon,Workhouse,if you make jokes like that! I’m Mister 9 Noah Claypole,and you’re working under me.Now,hurry up and open the curtains!’As he said this, he kicked Oliver and entered the shop.He was a big,clumsy boy of about fourteen, with a large head and very small eyes.Added to these attractions were a red nose and dirty yellow trousers. 


The boys went down to breakfast, which the girl Charlotte had made for them. She gave an extra piece of meat to Noah,then told Oliver to hurry up as it was his job to look after the shop. 


‘Did you hear that,Workhouse?’ shouted Noah. 


‘He heard, Noah,’said Charlotte.  ‘Leave him alone.’ 


‘Why?’asked Noah. ‘All his relations have already left him alone. His mother and father aren’t going to interfere 10 with him!’Charlotte and Noah both started laughing loudly.Oliver sat alone in the corner,eating old bits of bread. 


Noah was a charity-boy, but not a workhouse orphan 11; he at least knew who his parents were. But for a long time all the local shop-boys had insulted 13 him because he wore the uniform of a charity-boy. Now fortune had brought him a creature in an even lower position in society than himself.Noah intended to repay 14 to Oliver every insult 12 he had ever received,and to make the new boy’s life a misery 15.  


After a few weeks,Mr Sowerberry decided 16 that he liked Oliver’s appearance enough to train him in the undertaking 17 business.Oliver’s permanent expression of sadness was very suitable,the undertaker thought,for collecting dead bodies from houses and accompanying the coffins to funerals. 


One day Mr Bumble came to tell them about a woman who had died in an extremely poor part of the town,and Sowerberry and Oliver went to collect the body.They went down dirty narrow streets where the houses on either side were tall and large,but very old.Some of the houses were almost falling down, and had to be supported by huge blocks of wood. The area was so poor that even the dead rats in the street looked as though They had died of hunger. 


They found the right house,and climbed the dark stairs to a miserable 18 little room.Some children watched them from the shadows as They entered.Something lay beneath a blanket on the floor in one corner.A man and an old woman stood near the body.Oliver was afraid to look at them. With their thin faces and sharp teeth, They looked like the rats he had seen outside. 


As Sowerberry began to measure the body for a coffin,  the man knelt 19 on the floor and cried out, ‘She starved to death,I tell you!That’s why she died!’He fell to the floor,and all the children behind him started to cry.Sowerberry and O liver,their work done,left as fast as They could. 


They returned the next day with the coffin and four men from the workhouse who were to carry it.The man and the old woman followed the coffin to the church,and waited silently by the grave for the priest 20 to arrive.When at last he came, he hurried through the burial prayers, and as quickly as possible(it was only a job,after all) the coffin was put into the ground. At this point the husband, who had not moved once during his wife’s burial- not even during the long wait for the priest-suddenly fainted to the ground and had to have cold water thrown over him. 


‘So how did you like it,Oliver?’asked Sowerberry later,as they walked home. 


‘Not very much, sir,’Oliver answered truthfully. 


‘You’ll get used to it,my boy.’ 


Oliver wondered how long that would take,and remained silent all the way back to the shop,thinking about everything that he had seen and heard.




n.肝;肝脏
  • He has a weak liver.他的肝脏不好。
  • The largest organ in the body is the liver.人体最大的器官是肝脏。
adj.尖的,直截了当的
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
adv.不耐烦地
  • Impatiently he cut short what I was telling him. 他不耐烦地打断了我的话。
  • The children wait impatiently for the vacation.孩子们焦急地等待着假期的来临。
n.棺材,灵柩
  • When one's coffin is covered,all discussion about him can be settled.盖棺论定。
  • The coffin was placed in the grave.那口棺材已安放到坟墓里去了。
n.棺材( coffin的名词复数 );使某人早亡[死,完蛋,垮台等]之物
  • The shop was close and hot, and the atmosphere seemed tainted with the smell of coffins. 店堂里相当闷热,空气仿佛被棺木的味儿污染了。 来自辞典例句
  • Donate some coffins to the temple, equal to the number of deaths. 到寺庙里,捐赠棺材盒给这些死者吧。 来自电影对白
n.墓穴,坟墓,雕刻工,抑音;adj.庄重的,严肃的,重大的,低沉的;vt.雕刻
  • Marriage is the grave of love.婚姻是爱情的坟墓。
  • This is a very grave matter indeed.这问题的确非常严重。
adj.沮丧的,抑郁的,不景气的,萧条的
  • When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
  • His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。
adj.有经验的;经验丰富的,熟练的
  • Experienced seamen will advise you about sailing in this weather.有经验的海员会告诉你在这种天气下的航行情况。
  • Perhaps you and I had better change over;you are more experienced.也许我们的工作还是对换一下好,你比我更有经验。
n.(略作Mr.全称很少用于书面)先生
  • Mister Smith is my good friend.史密斯先生是我的好朋友。
  • He styled himself " Mister Clean ".他自称是“清廉先生”。
v.(in)干涉,干预;(with)妨碍,打扰
  • If we interfere, it may do more harm than good.如果我们干预的话,可能弊多利少。
  • When others interfere in the affair,it always makes troubles. 别人一卷入这一事件,棘手的事情就来了。
n.孤儿;adj.无父母的
  • He brought up the orphan and passed onto him his knowledge of medicine.他把一个孤儿养大,并且把自己的医术传给了他。
  • The orphan had been reared in a convent by some good sisters.这个孤儿在一所修道院里被几个好心的修女带大。
vt.侮辱,凌辱;n.侮辱的言词或行为
  • You will insult her if you don't go to her party. 你要是不去参加她举办的聚会,就对她太无礼了。
  • I can't sit down with that insult.我不能忍受那种侮辱。
侮辱,冒犯( insult的过去式和过去分词 )
  • I have never been so insulted in my life! 我一生中从未被如此侮辱过!
  • These boys insulted a girl by spitting at her. 这几个男孩向一个女孩吐口水侮辱她。
v.偿还,报答,还钱给
  • I feel honor bound to repay the money I borrowed.我觉得有责任归还我借的钱。
  • I must repay her for her kindness.我必须报答她的恩惠。
n.痛苦,苦恼,苦难;悲惨的境遇,贫苦
  • Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦。
  • He has rescued me from the mire of misery.他把我从苦海里救了出来。
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
n.保证,许诺,事业
  • He gave her an undertaking that he would pay the money back with in a year.他向她做了一年内还钱的保证。
  • He is too timid to venture upon an undertaking.他太胆小,不敢从事任何事业。
adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的
  • It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他,这是可耻的。
  • Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。
v.跪( kneel的过去式和过去分词 );(kneel的过去式与过去分词)
  • They knelt down and prayed. 他们跪下来祷告。
  • She knelt in supplication. 她跪地祷求。
n.神父,牧师,司铎,司祭,领导者,神甫;vt.使成为神职人员
  • He confessed to a priest that he had sinned.他向神父忏悔他犯了罪。
  • The priest visited all the old people in the parish.牧师探望了教区里的所有老人。
学英语单词
a strake
activated sludge filamentation bulking
adder accumulator
al faw (fao)
alkaline incrusted cystitis
apple jellies
B. & T.
bar disintegrator
baseball-card
be in favour
be no end fine
big-endian and little-endian
bolivian monetary units
boyis
camshaft gear drive
cap flashing
Cardium
cavetti
chinese calligraphy
claimants ledger
conversational report
crab winch
cutting over
delay mixing
deletes
demeurer
dhoruba
diatomaceous chert
double counterpoint in the twelfth
Dove Dale
energy-intensive technology
esc.
Ethershare
evaporable waste
Evenk
expendient
false reed
flour
forward current rating
genuflect
guardaba
hand driven generator
hattrick
heat exchange in sea
ice cream slab
indicine
individual cylinder
inhabited building distance
inherent opening time
ioderma
ko gaku (japan)
Kǒmdǒksan
mace butter
Madison River
mat matter
matrix gate
micro-code
monosyaptic reflex
multiple terminal
N-dimethylcyclohexaneethylamine
Nafrine
nuclear magnetic resonance computerized tomography
ordinal indicator
ordinary budget
Paleo-Siberian languages
Paneth and Hevesy method
passing shot
physik
pilot light burner
polyphenol-aldehyde fibre reinforcement
precompute
preferee
pry bars
Puricama
raphe of scrotum
rejoindure
roller cone
run-up brake
Salix microphyta
salmorejo
salvage group
scammoniae resina
scummers
semibatch selectivity
Serangoon, Pulau
Sitosterln
slamkins
sphinx-likest
sulfhydryl compound
super typhoon
taxable base
transfrontal orbitotomy
trial at nisi prius
triphenylguanidine
ultraviolet absorber fixative
unique array
unsupportively
vertical sliding window
vessel detection
virusin
yellow-orange leaf