时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:有声英语文学名著


英语课

 There is a spark from a short, and the twigs 1 at her knee catch fire. He pulls her back into the seat beside him. He thrusts his hands up against the cockpit glass and it will not shift. Begins punching the glass, cracking it, finally breaking it, and the oil and the fire slop and spin everywhere. How low is he in the sky? She collapses—acacia twigs, leaves, the branches that were shaped into arms uncoiling around him. Limbs begin disappearing in the suck of air.( The odour of morphine on his tongue. Caravaggio reflected in the black lake of his eye. He goes up and down now like a well bucket. There is blood somehow all over his face.) He is flying a rotted plane, the canvas sheetings on the wings ripping open in the speed. They are carrion 2. (How far back had the palm tree been? How long ago?) He lifts his legs out of the oil, but they are so heavy. There is no way he can lift them again. He is old. Suddenly. Tired of living without her. He cannot lie back in her arms and trust her to stand guard all day all night while he sleeps. He has no one. He is exhausted 3 not from the desert but from solitude 4. (Madox gone. )The woman translated into leaves and twigs, the broken glass to the sky like a jaw 5 above him. He slips into the harness of the oil-wet parachute and pivots 6 upside down, breaking free of glass, wind flinging his body back. Then his legs are free of everything, and he is in the air, bright, not knowing why he is bright until he realizes he is on fire. 



1 twigs
细枝,嫩枝( twig的名词复数 )
  • Some birds build nests of twigs. 一些鸟用树枝筑巢。
  • Willow twigs are pliable. 柳条很软。
2 carrion
n.腐肉
  • A crow of bloodthirsty ants is attracted by the carrion.一群嗜血的蚂蚁被腐肉所吸引。
  • Vultures usually feed on carrion or roadkill.兀鹫通常以腐肉和公路上的死伤动物为食。
3 exhausted
adj.极其疲惫的,精疲力尽的
  • It was a long haul home and we arrived exhausted.搬运回家的这段路程特别长,到家时我们已筋疲力尽。
  • Jenny was exhausted by the hustle of city life.珍妮被城市生活的忙乱弄得筋疲力尽。
4 solitude
n. 孤独; 独居,荒僻之地,幽静的地方
  • People need a chance to reflect on spiritual matters in solitude. 人们需要独处的机会来反思精神上的事情。
  • They searched for a place where they could live in solitude. 他们寻找一个可以过隐居生活的地方。
5 jaw
n.颚,颌,说教,流言蜚语;v.喋喋不休,教训
  • He delivered a right hook to his opponent's jaw.他给了对方下巴一记右钩拳。
  • A strong square jaw is a sign of firm character.强健的方下巴是刚毅性格的标志。
6 pivots
n.枢( pivot的名词复数 );最重要的人(或事物);中心;核心v.(似)在枢轴上转动( pivot的第三人称单数 );把…放在枢轴上;以…为核心,围绕(主旨)展开
  • The success of the project pivots on investment from abroad. 这个工程的成功主要依靠外来投资。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The novel pivots around a long conversation between two characters. 这部小说是以两个人物的对话为中心展开的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
5-Nonanol
alkyl aryl recinoleate
amatea
amplitude splitting
anachorism
Anaphalis sinica
angle of twist
Apoi
azollaceaes
be responsible for
branch access type
burn like matchwood
Cachimbo, Sa.do
canary dextrin
clowness
copper-to-glass
counterblow drop hammer
cunt-struck
day of entry
Dendrobium equitans
depeche mode
dequace
design of children at play
diffuse prior
diktyoma
dished section
drill through
dust collector cyclone
elmisaurids
explosion protection
eyeshadow cream
factorial trials
ferri-
fill up a post
glutenins
heme-controlled inhibitor
Herbert Henry Asquith
hess
hypochordal longmuscle
I-peganine
incremental feed
infrared microspectrometry
inspection of fit clearance of propeller
interfacial reaction
laithes
leptaflorine
lift-ups
lindelof
line-breadth phenomenon
lipolytic
magneto volume effect
marine autotraverse positioner
mesenteric vascular occlusion
miniature component
minimal brain dysfunctions
morbid sound
mortise wheel
nephromalacia
newborough
nominal pitch
non-operation
nonflier
Norman Rockwell
Novy-MacNeal blood agar
offence of betraying state secretes
Okinoerabu-jima
operative lay time
output-truncated condensation
overstressing
photointaglio
pilot valve bushing
pissin' it
pontoon-type breakwater
populist-right
posterula
potentiogalvanostat
present angular height
Pseudo Exchange Union
quadchromatic
rate of temperature drop
reference model for open system interconnection
regular creche
reseal voltage
response facilitation effect
rotary spherical digester
ruptura
shaded-pole relay
Sitophylus
soil particle
swing type check mechanism
symphyocladia marchantioides
tedd
theodicy
through transit club
transformation of Gestalt
twerkers
unadornedly
Uncovered Put writing
unspotlighted
vuel
wooks
zig-zags