时间:2019-01-29 作者:英语课 分类:时间旅行者的妻子


英语课

She continues to hold my hands. She looks at me with eagerness; with love. I feel profoundly humble 1. “Clare?” “Yes?” “Could we back up? Could we pretend that this is a normal first date between two normal people?” “Okay.” Clare gets up and goes back to her side of the table. She sits up straight and tries not to smile. “Um, right. Gee 2, ah, Clare, ah, tell me about yourself. Hobbies? Pets? Unusual sexual proclivities 3?” “Find out for yourself.” “Right. Let’s see.. .where do you go to school? What are you studying?” “I’m at the School of the Art Institute; I’ve been doing sculpture, and I’ve just started to study papermaking.” “Cool. What’s your work like?” For the first time, Clare seems uncomfortable. “It’s kind of...big, and it’s about.. .birds.” She looks at the table, then takes a sip 4 of tea. “Birds?” “Well, really it’s about, um, longing 5.” She is still not looking at me, so I change the subject. “Tell more about your family.” “Okay.” Clare relaxes, smiles. “Well...my family lives in Michigan, by a small town on the lake called South Haven 6. Our house is in an unincorporated area outside the town, actually. It originally belonged to my mother’s parents, my Grandpa and Grandma Meagram. He died before I was born, and she lived with us until she died. I was seventeen. My grandpa was a lawyer, and my dad is a lawyer; my dad met my mom when he came to work for Grandpa.” “So he married the boss’s daughter.” “Yeah. Actually, I sometimes wonder if he really married the boss’s house. My mom is an only child, and the house is sort of amazing; it’s in a lot of books on the Arts and Crafts movement.” “Does it have a name? Who built it?” “It’s called Meadowlark House, and it was built in 1896 by Peter Wyns.” “Wow. I’ve seen pictures of it. It was built for one of the Henderson family, right?” “Yes. It was a wedding present for Mary Henderson and Dieter Bascombe. 



adj.谦卑的,恭顺的;地位低下的;v.降低,贬低
  • In my humble opinion,he will win the election.依我拙见,他将在选举中获胜。
  • Defeat and failure make people humble.挫折与失败会使人谦卑。
n.马;int.向右!前进!,惊讶时所发声音;v.向右转
  • Their success last week will gee the team up.上星期的胜利将激励这支队伍继续前进。
  • Gee,We're going to make a lot of money.哇!我们会赚好多钱啦!
n.倾向,癖性( proclivity的名词复数 )
  • Raised by adoptive parents,Hill received early encouragement in her musical proclivities. 希尔由养父母带大,从小,她的音乐爱好就受到了鼓励。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Whatever his political connections and proclivities, he did not care to neglect so powerful a man. 无论他的政治关系和脾气如何,他并不愿怠慢这样有势力的人。 来自辞典例句
v.小口地喝,抿,呷;n.一小口的量
  • She took a sip of the cocktail.她啜饮一口鸡尾酒。
  • Elizabeth took a sip of the hot coffee.伊丽莎白呷了一口热咖啡。
n.(for)渴望
  • Hearing the tune again sent waves of longing through her.再次听到那首曲子使她胸中充满了渴望。
  • His heart burned with longing for revenge.他心中燃烧着急欲复仇的怒火。
n.安全的地方,避难所,庇护所
  • It's a real haven at the end of a busy working day.忙碌了一整天后,这真是一个安乐窝。
  • The school library is a little haven of peace and quiet.学校的图书馆是一个和平且安静的小避风港。
学英语单词
adaptive-optics
additional commitment
amorphous phase
analog sound
anaphorically
annalized
antirevolution
arrow root starch
Atlas rocket
Bannesdorf auf Fehmarn
binder modification
braine le comte
callback
Candin
cantral terminal unit
cash ratio deposits
Cassoalala
circulation integral
collection service
continuing professional education (cpe)
continuous string
convolute mineralization
cubic-lattice cell
differents
dining-table
dioxygens
drp
easy bilge
elasto-plastic system
Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros
final periods
fireband
formed stool
garbage trucks
Geesteren
give it another brush
greenish-grey
Hemerocallis forrestii
heparphosphotides
hexagonal-close-packed
Hochkalter
hoof-pick
hourglass curve
Imidazolo-2-Idrossibenzoate
induplication
infiltration tunnel
International Meeting of Marine Radio Aids to Navigation
Joliet, Louis
juvenile sulfur
kachang puteh
Kyaikpi
Lhenice
lifting and moving equipment
long hundred
Luchki
made for life
maquiladoras
Mary Queen of Scots
megaton bomb
metering characteristic of nozzle
mixed mode
modulation reference level
moneyhatting
NATO phonetic alphabet
nested scope
nonnarcotics
olpc
Phosphor Bronze Strip
physical distance measuring
postgena
premires
Processing loss
pyloric stenosis
queueing network model
rapid growths
re-activating
redundant recording
reheat steam conditions
right elevation
Roig, C.
rosenstiel
Rubus mesogaeus
san juan de camarones
sedentary polychaete
shikimic acid
standard specific volume
Staphylininae
sterile food
sweet basils
swing tow
temperature - sensitive mutant
the furies
top-blown
turnover ratio of accounts payable
uninstructively
united parcel service
water-stage transmitter
wax-bill
white firs
Wirrega
yellow-backeds
youthward