【时间旅行者的妻子】01
时间：2019-01-01 作者：英语课 分类：时间旅行者的妻子
英语课
THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE
a novel by Audrey Niffenegger
Clock time is our bank manager, tax collector, police inspector 1;
this inner time is our wife.
—J. B. Priestley, Man and Time
LOVE AFTER LOVE
The time will come
when, with elation 2,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
—Derek Walcott
PROLOGUE 3
CLARE: It’s hard being left behind. I wait for Henry, not knowing where he is, wondering if he’s okay. It’s hard to be the one who stays.
I keep myself busy. Time goes faster that way.
I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I’m tired.I watch the wind play with the trash that’s been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified 4 by absence?
Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing 5 on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship. Now I wait for Henry. He vanishes unwillingly 6, without warning. I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity 7. Each moment is as slow and transparent 8 as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow?
n.检查员，监察员，视察员
- The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
- The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。
n.兴高采烈，洋洋得意
- She showed her elation at having finally achieved her ambition.最终实现了抱负，她显得十分高兴。
- His supporters have reacted to the news with elation.他的支持者听到那条消息后兴高采烈。
n.开场白，序言；开端，序幕
- A poor wedding is a prologue to misery.不幸的婚姻是痛苦的开始。
- The prologue to the novel is written in the form of a newspaper account.这本小说的序言是以报纸报道的形式写的。
v.（使）增强， （使）加剧( intensify的过去式和过去分词 )
- Violence intensified during the night. 在夜间暴力活动加剧了。
- The drought has intensified. 旱情加剧了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的
- After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
- They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
adv.不情愿地
- He submitted unwillingly to his mother. 他不情愿地屈服于他母亲。
- Even when I call, he receives unwillingly. 即使我登门拜访，他也是很不情愿地接待我。
n.不朽，来世；永恒，无穷
- The dull play seemed to last an eternity.这场乏味的剧似乎演个没完没了。
- Finally,Ying Tai and Shan Bo could be together for all of eternity.英台和山伯终能双宿双飞，永世相随。
adj.明显的，无疑的；透明的
- The water is so transparent that we can see the fishes swimming.水清澈透明，可以看到鱼儿游来游去。
- The window glass is transparent.窗玻璃是透明的。