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
achatz
adtevak
agent bank
agreement on protection of investment
American Towing Tank Conference
amino group powder
amphojel
antiseptic rubber
ash shatrah (shatra)
asplenium griffithianum
asplenium obscurum
benevolentiae
bheu-
body snatchers
bosporuss
brillats
canonici codex
cape wrath
Chien ware
chortle about
chromatron
combining estimate of variance
completely stable
conceded
Danchangjin
day's residue
Decofluor
deferred profit on instalment sales
deficious
dense-core
desulfurizing furnace
dialkyl pyrophosphoric acid
digital servomechanism
drop-frame trailer
dry-cleaner
end out
ethnogenesis
extra bold
fibre sorter
flash testing equipment
get desperate
goerdeler
good condition of vehicle
Goshiki
Görschlitz
hoopoe
hour-glass contraction
imperial statutes
individual program
injection profile thickness
investment flow
Januariebos
kazanian
Kirovabad
Kǔmya
laddery
lividomycinB
locomotive selection
longitudinal parallax screw
mercury(mercuric)blende
mielies
minkema
nonstimulating
nuclear solution
Ophiorrhiza medogensis
Osmoseton
Othello
Output hardware
pledge her honour
pnp triode
polgol
power source for switch control
Pozuelos de Calatrava
prooving
quick-freezing
radioactive tracer gas
railroad traction
recognition meeting
recoil nuclei counter tube
reheating regulator
RHR (system )pump
safety-critical system
sharps
Shixuan
show one's true colours
soil feasibility
sticker break
stoolings
sublimbic fissure
Sys.
taiwanomyia fragilicornis
tie-pin
to tag
transceiver
transfrontal bristles
transness
underslops
unigram
valve-spring cup
what's shaking
whisk away
Wilnis