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
a capella
acute care
African drift
analytic fractorial
animal-health
authenticated turn
balsamed
bar primary bushing type current transformer
blast furnace blower
board lining
Byakangelicol
calomel half cell
capital of Oman
Casparian dot s
chart motor
claribellas
coal flap
complex fibre
control bar
cooking-pot
coroner indicator
corrugated asbestos cement roofing
cybercitizens
Cyrenaic
deigning
descending stroke
Dolgarrog
dolphinlike
double longitudinal stay
ever-sporting (bateson 1906)
family Rickettsiaceae
file generation utility
gagworthy
generator circuit breaker
glances
grisic acid
Gulf of Kutch
herbicarnivorous
hypermutate
illicit cohabitation
incremental recorder
inside guard rail
internal maxillary artery
jurisdiction in rem
Kestrone
Kosandji
laminated sheet iron
latan
lgic
lipoglobulin
lubricant pigment
Lupaso
macalpine
macintosb sheet
maritime Safety Board of Japan
multitrillion
noncon
nondivergent motion
oligomycins
operational level agreement
optimark
order relation
orotirelin
outside ring of the hawse pipe opening
ownership of productive means
peers-to-peers
perrier-jouets
phubber
preemptive bid
prelaminar
pressure distribution of foundation
prime of one's life
proto-Nile
Protophenicol
quality circles
radio communication range
radium a
recultivating
revification
rhadopoda
s movement
saccular
seisms
short-circuit equivalent test
sirtris
smull
snap-action contacts
Sofres
spark ionization chamber
steatorrhoeas
tertiarybutylhydroquinone
thymolytic steroid
two-wheeled tractor
uyehara
Vastazin
VDV
Walsse
water gage cock
wax-myrtle
Wynter's sign
yellow streak
zebrawood trees