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
a-historic
a. arcuata
Actinodaphne pedicellata
aluminium bars
American Petroleum Industries Committee
antiphrases
atexite
axonotomesis
be at stake
bellows type sealing ring
blankoff flange
bluewashes
bodily-heavy
bonne fortune
breakdown by countries
Breughel the Elder
call up the reserves
carditis phlegmonosa
caroticotympanic canals
cartulary
centerer
chargeing density
chemical transducer
chlorogogue cell
chrome-nickel alloy
closing off
coffin
commiss
crockery
crow-bill
culturewide
damn-all
dance on the air
dephenylchlorarsine
desmine (stilbite)
diaminobenzophenone
disincentivizes
Dvuglavaya, Gora
ectospore
engine room floor
environmental assets
Ernstbrunn
euhemicera sakishimensis
foreign exchange quotation
fractionise
frontal incisure
fuscescens
galarza
Gardinol type detergent
gene transcription
Groupism
Hensens node
hornpipist
horus
indicate
inn-keeper
ionium-thorium dating
Jeevesian
kanwals
lauster
left handed screw
linkage system
low prf
Lupburg
marcoux
metal film interconnection
mlstp
money spinner
monte carloes
multidimensional feature space
multiprogrammed repeatable robot
obtusiloba
occipito-axial
octanamide
ossa lacrimale
paperflowers
parallel programing
pearlstone
pefsr
Pete Seeger
phoney wars
pilekiids
polyradiculoneuropathies
precipitation scatter
rami ventrales
rotopulsator
schizophrenias
self-mediating
Shoku
sidecar body
single flash
slept over
stainful
straddling stocks
Subject-Matter Jurisdiction
Telok Petai
umbillical groove
upland meadow
wikre
wowsville
X-ray transformer
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