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
agricultural area
allotropic form
Andersen-Warburg syndrome
anti-rorpedo armament
artificial colouring matter
Bach,Johann, Christian
bad request
barbered
birefringence of flow
bobbin loader
Bramshaw
Burakin
bureaucratize
calyculate
canticoy
cardiac waves
carpet wear tester
cataster
clinical stamp
computer-aided design of mechanism
corpora luteum graviditatis
dash leader
delustering fibre
derous
dicknuts
direct-operated regulator
distortion of waveform
double the parts of
DTDECG
E6-AP
ec-u
efloxate
emergency ministerial meeting
Erica arborea
extrorsal
fine-focus X-ray tube
fingerbang
flood erosion
free piloting piston
good quality product
gorden
grain capacity in cubic feet
graphite apex seal
Greuling-Goertze approximation
guard of computer
gunrunner
Heyd'syndrome
horselaughs
hot air
HPRS (high pressure recirculation system)
hypostasized
i-visited
ill conditioned polynomial
isosalsolinol
jarosite process
Kailasa
kuchi
Larix mastersiana
lift-on-lift-off shipment
line-haul
lower triangular matrix
mail clerks
marrying up
mosquito fly
narcotic
nihil obstats
numeration system
osteoformation
parallel-averted photograph
photostimulation
pilokeanine
poly-rhythms
preoral sting
prescored
quarter-hour
quasineutral
red star signal
rivet clasp
rollerskating
ronk-
rubber diaphragm
Saigon-Gia Dinh
seismic code
semicontinuous kiln
shading off
silberstein
simple tumor
soap-weeds
spring energizer
steam-generating circuit
stswseslsvses-s
suffer erosion
Sulcus supracetabularis
sumping
thermolysis water yield
thoracaphis kashifoliae
tidal nonharmonic constant
tubuli
Vialpha
virtual server
windlike
yin arthralgia