时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:有声英语文学名著


英语课

"3 CC’s BROMPTON COCKTAIL 1. 3:00 P.M." Caravaggio slips the book out of the man’s hands. “When you crashed in the desert—where were you flying from?” He asks.


“I was leaving the Gilf Kebir. I had gone there to collect someone. In late August. Nineteen forty-two.” 
“During the war? Everyone must have left by then.” 
“Yes. There were just armies.” 
(“The Gilf Kebir.” 
“Yes.” 
“Where is it?” 
“Give me the Kipling book... here.” 
On the frontispiece of Kirn was a map with a dotted line for the path the boy and the Holy One took. It showed just a portion of India—a darkly cross-hatched Afghanistan, and Kashmir in the lap of the mountains. He traces his black hand along the Numi River till it enters the sea at 23°3o’ latitude 2. He continues sliding his finger seven inches west, off the page, onto his chest; he touches his rib 3
“Here. The Gilf Kebir, just north of the Tropic of Cancer. On the Egyptian-Libyan border.” )
"What happened in 1942? " Caravaggio asks.
And the English patient begins,"I had made the journey to Cairo and was returning from there. I was slipping between the enemy, remembering old maps, hitting the pre-war caches of petrol and water, driving towards Uweinat. It was easier now that I was alone. Miles from the Gilf Kebir, the truck exploded and I capsized, rolling automatically into the sand, not wanting a spark to touch me. (In the desert one is always frightened of fire. )

1 cocktail
n.鸡尾酒;餐前开胃小吃;混合物
  • We invited some foreign friends for a cocktail party.我们邀请了一些外国朋友参加鸡尾酒会。
  • At a cocktail party in Hollywood,I was introduced to Charlie Chaplin.在好莱坞的一次鸡尾酒会上,人家把我介绍给查理·卓别林。
2 latitude
n.纬度,行动或言论的自由(范围),(pl.)地区
  • The latitude of the island is 20 degrees south.该岛的纬度是南纬20度。
  • The two cities are at approximately the same latitude.这两个城市差不多位于同一纬度上。
3 rib
n.肋骨,肋状物
  • He broke a rib when he fell off his horse.他从马上摔下来折断了一根肋骨。
  • He has broken a rib and the doctor has strapped it up.他断了一根肋骨,医生已包扎好了。
学英语单词
.ico
5-androstenedione
aerial contamination
alanus
alpha chamber
alphanumeric information
Alysicarpus
anaerobic cultivation
ant-jamming circuit
anti-religious
asserters
auriculo-ventricular valve
backward failure
basset oboe
blusher
brammalite
business share
chif
Cléry-sur-Somme
colatorium
combination board
communication network for space flight test
contentiousness
controllable convertor arm
cosmopolitanism
daltons alloy
damolic
differential gain
dilatement
discolouring
efficiency of transformer
exhaust gas waste-heat boiler
financial mix
fructus xanthil
gantry berth
gate-crashers
give-and-go
Grewia piscatorum
harvey cushings
Henrisporites
hold in play
hollowbody
homoca-mfin
hotfooted
international jurisdiction
invalid send buffer address
invariance of eigen value
Laomedia astacina
log-crib abutment
ludovicoes
MEOP
mermithodinergate
meteorette
methoxycinnamates
natural agriculture
neurosky
nival gradient
non concurrent force
nonradiator tentering machine
novy apparatus
operative gynecology
papineaux
pathoanatomic
pilot european image processing archive
pneumatic ramming
Poa nankoensis
prediagnosed
proficiat
profit ratio of operating capital
protocol level
pyrotartaric acid
rate of response
refaxed
refrigerant vapour
Rekvedbukta
reserve trunk
residual acid
retay-station
runos
Schizachyrium sanguineum
seedling coppice
slam-door
stone flies
stop nut
sudam
Sulzfeld
taxonus octopunctatus
tele-extender
test difficulty
the 'G'
the long jump
thickened oils
Thracians
top head shingle
torpedo coxswain
unshielded twisted pair (utp)
venae centralis retinae
Venturi-meter variable
wencher
wheat leaf spot
wreathed string