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
acanthoameloblastoma
adjustable riveting machine
all agog to
arkansite
banterer
bastard elder
bellamie
benefitting
bioconverting
blue rinse
bridge control system
bunker group
calcium soap
chainstores
circinella muscae
communion service
contraguitarist
control-moment gyro
course of performance
dabells
definiendums
demagogical
deskfaxes
despotist
developing agricultural economics
draughting scale
enterocolitis
exchange proviso clause
existeth
exkursionsbreite
exterior lighting system
fibre-optic transmission system
fisher-men
form oriented interactive database system
formosan lesser horseshoe bat
Francis Galton
freight rebate system
frequency shift modulator
gehey
Gjerrild
guidescopes
horse sorrel
ignoscency
intercommunicability
intuitives
isocratic elution
judge-arbitrator
Litig.
lost costs
Lycospora
Lötschberg Tun.
magheralins
mathematicks
mcgahan
monoprenylated
mother-of-pearl cloud
mumbo jumbos
naturalized species
nonlipids
Norrbo
optomyometer
outbleated
pattern function
percussion sidewall sampling
pharyngotyphoid
phononless
picture varnish
plunge-refex
polar reciprocal curves
quick-eared
Radio Data System
reches
relative condition
Remote assistant
represseth
ro.
Sacasaca
sand-grass
self-ignited
self-isolation resistor
shelter porosity
Shiroka
slash pump
sniegoski
Socceroo
starch dust
Stereaceae
stewable
stoyan
superconductance
tail of a stream
tapered tube
terrestrial communication network
theche
thermometer bird
to get out a boat
True Romance
typifiter
unsymmetrical circuit
utility seaplane
V.S.O.
vibratory therapeutic