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
address for service
angular dissymmetry
as strong etc. as anything
binding energy per particle
body lock
breakage clause
bubenik
burnoosed
chekol
Chilkat
Christianshavn
cli-fi
close-ratio gearbox
Cohen, Leonard
comminglements
common crane
condominate
confirmably
cooling converter
Cronartium
cucumber dill pickle
current standing wave ratio
daffed
deaf ears
deoxyuridylate
development finance institution (dfi)
device characteristics
dey
diversion structure
driving spirit
DSG
duramater
Elbian
estimated reserves of crude oil
Eucalyptus saligna
evangelisers
faras
fault clearing time
fine machining
fixed-displacement-variable pressure pump
Forbes Reef
genus rachycentrons
Geranium nepalense Sweet.
GF-AAS
government-run factory
gray communicating branch
hand-punching
heave ahead
Huisne
i-wroht
import labo(u)r power
in vitro culture
inverso-
isocratically
Kitayama-gawa
lepidosaphes cycadicola
linear partial differential equation with variable coefficients
long life milk
luxury-product
middleport
miniwasher
Nonaspe
numerical control table
oceanographic hydrological element
office activity
officeless
okermanite (kermanite)
ophtalmometer
oscilloscopic polarography
out-thought
Phyllophoraceae
portable pulling machine
Potters field
primary water pump
rag-wheel
rat-goose
reachability of system
receding colours
ring-belt temperature
Rochuga
sesnsgslsissshs-s
spherical polygon
spreading bead
springer spaniel
St.Vitus dance
stimulating electrode
submarine sandwich
sulfaimidine
suredaite
system control programming
thread take-up cam position screw
thunderbolts
trimedone
Tsunenaga
typ(e)able
ultimate operational capability
unconformability
venae dentis
visible pit of track
voltage transformation
Wharton County