时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:有声英语文学名著


英语课

 They are in the botanical garden, near the Cathedral of All Saints. She sees one tear and leans forward and licks it, taking it into her mouth.( As she has taken the blood from his hand when he cut himself cooking for her. Blood. Tear.) He feels everything is missing from his body, feels he contains smoke. All that is alive is the knowledge of future desire and want. What he would say he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. (He cannot alter what he loves most in her, her lack of compromise, where the romance of the poems she loves still sits with ease in the real world. Outside these qualities he knows there is no order in the world. This night of her insistence 1


Twenty-eighth of September. The rain in the trees already dried by hot moonlight. Not one cool drop to fall down upon him like a tear. This parting at Groppi Park. He has not asked if her husband is home in that high square of light, across the street. He sees the tall row of traveller’s palms above them, their outstretched wrists. The way her head and hair were above him, when she was his lover. )
Now there is no kiss. Just one embrace. He untugs himself from her and walks away, then turns. She is still there. He comes back within a few yards of her, one finger raised to make a point. “I just want you to know. I don’t miss you yet.” His face awful to her, trying to smile. (Her head sweeps away from him and hits the side of the gatepost. He sees it hurt her, notices the wince 2. But they have separated already into themselves now, the walls up at her insistence. Her jerk, her pain, is accidental, is intentional 3. Her hand is near her temple. )

1 insistence
n.坚持;强调;坚决主张
  • They were united in their insistence that she should go to college.他们一致坚持她应上大学。
  • His insistence upon strict obedience is correct.他坚持绝对服从是对的。
2 wince
n.畏缩,退避,(因痛苦,苦恼等)面部肌肉抽动;v.畏缩,退缩,退避
  • The barb of his wit made us wince.他那锋芒毕露的机智使我们退避三舍。
  • His smile soon modified to a wince.他的微笑很快就成了脸部肌肉的抽搐。
3 intentional
adj.故意的,有意(识)的
  • Let me assure you that it was not intentional.我向你保证那不是故意的。
  • His insult was intentional.他的侮辱是有意的。
学英语单词
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accentuals
acid-refining tank
Aconitum fischeri
adulterizes
air gate bearing door
almost surely convergent
anaphylaetia
Apogee.
Astomatophorina
aurothiosulfate
Babylonian
balanced step
Bauda
blue foxes
Buxpune
case cord
Cassia mimosoides L.
claustrum gutturis
clothing lined board
comminuted fracture of olecranon
confederalist
consecutive sexuality
costly binding
cut methods
Depok
designer apartment
digital information service
dipalmitostearin
disappearance
double tension test
double wall box
doublebutted
dysoxidation
ease ahead
economic experiment
fascia subcutanea
fibular surface
foul up
freedom from molestation
giraldiana
gormy
grain unloading auger
gramarie
Hadsten
hardware test
have sth against sb
hepatoduodenal ligament
impurity gas
intermediate muscle
internal mixing
jellybean part
klibi
line access point
long-run adjustment
macia
make one's farewells
melilotus suaveloens ledeb.
milheparine
minimal convex polygon
monorhina
pennsylvania-baseds
periureteric
petty misdemeanor
pinged us
pituitary space
ploughshare bone (or plowshare bone)
point beam
point-source model
powerboard
put someone's monkey up
referred to as
Robledo de Chavela
ruly language
Scidmore eyepiece
scoutmistress
sea-cucumbers
searse
self-expansion
shoulder cape
shouldered arches
single-column planing machine
Solanum cathayanum
specific gravity separator
sponge roll
start-stop bit
store order
storing up
stromatographium stromaticum
surface plasmon
swarf-penny
Talavera la Real
tongue test
touch move
UCG
under-utilize
underwater hydraulic drive unnit
unedging
unified magnitude
Victoria green
viewer
wigged out