时间:2019-01-29 作者:英语课 分类:时间旅行者的妻子


英语课
 
 But what if it was Henry? I jump out of bed and I run, with no shoes I run downstairs, out the back door, into the Meadow. It’s cold, the wind cuts right through my nightgown. Where is he? I stop and look and there, by the orchard 1, there’s Daddy and Mark, in their bright orange hunting clothes, and there’s a man with them, they are all standing 2 and looking at something but then they hear me and they turn and I see that the man is Henry. What is Henry doing with Daddy and Mark? I run to them, my feet cut by the dead grasses, and Daddy walks to meet me. “Sweetheart,” he says, “what are you doing out here so early?”
 
 
 “I heard my name” I say. He smiles at me. Silly girl, his smile says, and I look at Henry, to see if he will explain. Why did you call me, Henry? but he shakes his head and puts his finger to his lips, Shhh, don’t tell, Clare. He walks into the orchard and I want to see what they were looking at but there’s nothing there and Daddy says, “Go back to bed, Clare, it was just a dream.” He puts his arm around me and begins to walk back toward the house with me and I look back at Henry and he waves, he’s smiling, It’s okay, Clare, I’ll explain later (although knowing Henry he probably won’t explain, he’ll make me figure it out or it will explain itself one of these days). 
    I wave back at him, and then I check to see if Mark saw that but Mark has his back to us, he’s irritated and is waiting for me to go away so he and Daddy can go back to hunting, but what is Henry doing here, what did they say to each other? I look back again but I don’t see Henry and Daddy says, “Go on, now, Clare, go back to bed,” and he kisses my forehead. He seems upset and so I run, run back to the house, and then softly up the stairs and then I am sitting on my bed, shivering, and I still don’t know what just happened, but I know it was bad, it was very, very bad.
 
 Monday, February 2, 1987 (Clare is 15, Henry is 38)
 
 
CLARE: When I get home from school Henry is waiting for me in the Reading Room. I have fixed 3 a little room for him next to the furnace room; it’s on the opposite side from where all the bicycles are. I have allowed it to be known in my household that I like to spend time in the basement reading, and I do in fact spend a lot of time in here, so that it doesn’t seem unusual. Henry has a chair wedged under the doorknob. I knock four knocks and he lets me in. He has made a sort of nest out of pillows and chair cushions and blankets, he has been reading old magazines under my desk lamp. 

n.果园,果园里的全部果树,(美俚)棒球场
  • My orchard is bearing well this year.今年我的果园果实累累。
  • Each bamboo house was surrounded by a thriving orchard.每座竹楼周围都是茂密的果园。
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
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abstract syntax notation
aeropulverize
aspires
auri-
avendano
bactericera miyatakeiana
bescot
Bismarck Arch.
blackened fish
BRC (below-regulatory-concern)
bufogin
bunny slopes
bursae intratendinea olecrani
bursts forth
Carex alba
Charlie Foxtrot
complex Young's modulus
Cordaianthus
cumulative mark on
device group
diaphragm pulsator
digital locker
disproportionate dwarfism
don't touch that dial
doncha
drive ... up the wall
durands
ecological terrorist
ellerby
embracer
enjoining
evasible
exuviates
fixed to floating point conversion
Foss, River
G-man
generating gear shaper
Glossodoris
Glucodiazine
glycolytic
guilty tools
hole drilling
innerduces
International Seabed Authority
iredalea exilis
it snows
klg
layd
linen papers
liquid brush rectifier
locating piece
low-volume low-pressure weed sprayer
married up
material wave
Megarhinus
meure
miascite (miaskit)
midcoursetrajectory
mistarget
mixed audio
moazagotl cloud
Munam-ni
neglect of economic performance
neodymium-doped lanthanum beryllate
new-better-than-used in expectation (nbue)
normal delay
not give a fuck
oil inlet pipe
ordinary staff
Ortodrinex
Petrocosmea grandiflora
Philiptschenko's gland
photo-mechanics
planned repair system
PMDS
polychlorobiphenyl
Purchena
radar target designation (rtd) control
Reactive Brilliant Red M-8B
recent infarct
rectifier disk
Rybinskiy Rayon
Sanicula rubriflora
schollers
servomechanistic
ship's inertial navigation system
small-scalest
sorcin
sowell
St-Léon
staphylococcic actinophytosis
Stepanshchino
stock reel
symmetrical cutting
tithis
tripodian
Trondhjem
turbulent zone
ultranationalism
Versenid
vertical accountability
weak charge