时间:2019-01-29 作者:英语课 分类:时间旅行者的妻子


英语课

“(You can still be cool )when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing your hair.”  Clare hums the beginning of “When I’m 64.” She moves her rook forward five spaces. I can checkmate her now, and I point this out to her and she hastily takes back the move.  “So why do you like Paul?” I ask her. I look up in time to see her blushing fervently 1.  “He’s so... beautiful,” Clare says. There’s something about the way she says it that makes me feel strange. I study the board, and it occurs to me that Clare could checkmate me if she took my bishop 2 with her knight 3. I wonder if I should tell her this. If she was a little younger, I would. Twelve is old enough to fend 4 for yourself. Clare is staring dreamily at the board. It dawns on me that I am jealous. Jesus. I can’t believe I’m feeling jealous of a multimillionaire rock star geezer old enough to be Clare’s dad.  “Hmpf,” I say.  Clare looks up, smiling mischievously 5. “Who do you like?”  You, I think but don’t say. “You mean when I was your age?”  “Um, yeah. When were you my age?”  I weigh the value and potential of this nugget before I dole 6 it out. “I was your age in 1975. I’m eight years older than you.”  “So you’re twenty?”  “Well, no, I’m thirty-six.” Old enough to be your dad.  Clare furrows 7 her brow. Math is not her strongest subject. “But if you were twelve in 1975....”  “Oh, sorry. You’re right. I mean, I myself am thirty-six, but somewhere out there”—I wave my hand toward the south—“I’m twenty. In real time.”  Clare strives to digest this. “So there are two of you?”  “Not exactly. There’s always only one me, but when I’m time traveling sometimes I go somewhere I already am, and yeah, then you could say there are two. Or more.”  “How come I never see more than one?”  



adv.热烈地,热情地,强烈地
  • "Oh, I am glad!'she said fervently. “哦,我真高兴!”她热烈地说道。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • O my dear, my dear, will you bless me as fervently to-morrow?' 啊,我亲爱的,亲爱的,你明天也愿这样热烈地为我祝福么?” 来自英汉文学 - 双城记
n.主教,(国际象棋)象
  • He was a bishop who was held in reverence by all.他是一位被大家都尊敬的主教。
  • Two years after his death the bishop was canonised.主教逝世两年后被正式封为圣者。
n.骑士,武士;爵士
  • He was made an honourary knight.他被授予荣誉爵士称号。
  • A knight rode on his richly caparisoned steed.一个骑士骑在装饰华丽的马上。
v.照料(自己),(自己)谋生,挡开,避开
  • I've had to fend for myself since I was 14.我从十四岁时起就不得不照料自己。
  • He raised his arm up to fend branches from his eyes.他举手将树枝从他眼前挡开。
adv.有害地;淘气地
  • He mischievously looked for a chance to embarrass his sister. 他淘气地寻找机会让他的姐姐难堪。 来自互联网
  • Also has many a dream kindheartedness, is loves mischievously small lovable. 又有着多啦a梦的好心肠,是爱调皮的小可爱。 来自互联网
n.救济,(失业)救济金;vt.(out)发放,发给
  • It's not easy living on the dole.靠领取失业救济金生活并不容易。
  • Many families are living on the dole since the strike.罢工以来,许多家庭靠失业救济金度日。
n.犁沟( furrow的名词复数 );(脸上的)皱纹v.犁田,开沟( furrow的第三人称单数 )
  • I could tell from the deep furrows in her forehead that she was very disturbed by the news. 从她额头深深的皱纹上,我可以看出她听了这个消息非常不安。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Dirt bike trails crisscrossed the grassy furrows. 越野摩托车的轮迹纵横交错地布满条条草沟。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
aerobactor
albiera
Ananta
antisubmarine detector
apothecaries' weight
Ascona
at cross-purposes
Azacualpa
benzophenone
blanket reprocessing
Bosanski Novi
brib
close-coupled
corona-starting gradient
damage by snow
Dekker, Thomas
dermasurgeon
dermohyal
deuterated solvent
diagonal elements
dilutee
dorsal tubercles
drum concrete spraying machine
easthams
elvin-lewis
enshrinee
equatorial orbit of satellite
fetal zone
frontperson
fry bread
Galaxy S
gas escape
Gentiana amplicrater
gnetophytinas
Go to Europe
gossemeere
grapple with sth
Hauy's law of crystallisation
heating output
hippolyte ventricosa
hydroformylation
immature sediment
imperfection sensitivity
in a hypnotic trance
inequality sign
januarys
kronykele
leisure society
limiting rudder
line of equal pressure
liquid-packing
longitudinal loading
make...pale by comparison
market-indexes
maxillary canal
monopropellant rocket engine
mortgage terms
muslimtards
Network card adapter
neuropeptidome
over sea containers Ltd.
parrest
Petrmyzon
phenyl-ethyl alcohol
pistolship
plastic downbuckling
plate singeing
polygonum fagopyrums
post-developments
precious garnet
prepyloric
primordians
prosaptia urceolaris
quality figure
rack and pinion loom
rarefaction quadrant
rate of finished products
renter
respirated
sand wheel band
service condition of ship
silver(i) oxide
ski-doos
slewing lock
soie platte
solar X-ray
spiked beater
substitution measurement
sweet-talking
tail rotor
televac
trailed share plow
travelling stair
trickling filter bed
Trumbiculidae
undertints
United Nations number
ureterocystoscope
vertical leveling mirror
Western blotting
wild fluctuation