时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:有声英语文学名著


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 There seemed to be a small lump, a dog possibly, under the covers. I pulled back the djellaba and there was a small Arab girl tied up, sleeping there. By 1932, Bagnold was finished and Madox and the rest of us were everywhere.  Looking for Zerzura.  1932 and 1933 and 1934. Not seeing each other for months. Just the Bedouin and us, crisscrossing the Forty Days Road. There were rivers of desert tribes, the most beautiful humans I’ve met in my life. We were German, English, Hungarian, African—all of us insignificant 1 to them. We disappeared into landscape. Fire and sand, Gradually we became nationless. I came to hate nations.I wanted to erase 2 my name and the place I had come from. By the time war arrived, after ten years in the desert, it was easy for me to slip across borders, not to belong to anyone, 



1 insignificant
adj.无关紧要的,可忽略的,无意义的
  • In winter the effect was found to be insignificant.在冬季,这种作用是不明显的。
  • This problem was insignificant compared to others she faced.这一问题与她面临的其他问题比较起来算不得什么。
2 erase
v.擦掉;消除某事物的痕迹
  • He tried to erase the idea from his mind.他试图从头脑中抹掉这个想法。
  • Please erase my name from the list.请把我的名字从名单上擦去。
学英语单词
adit air
airs-to-surface missile
Alozero
analogue-to-digital conversion
Angelica ternata
arteriae nutriciae humeri
assote
Balticisms
Ban Kongkaseng
be master of oneself
brewer's yeasts
Chasidism
checking amplifier
closed packing
co-teaching
columnar cash payment journal
crusty structure
cryptococcoses
current transducer
deionized
dinheiro
discretionable
eData
emergency cart
farm-product
first quality ware
fore-and-aft centerline
fouldered
gaugin
gymnaxony
haze
Hogla
holked
horizontal micrometer
house property
huysum
injection timing device
Kaung
lanisticolas
latex vessel
Leidschendam
lepidothamnuss
meningeal apoplexy
micro-optical crystallography
micrologging
micronization
minformations
myrsines
Neolitsea ellipsoidea
nozzle grouping
official school
one-component system
Organa genitalia feminina externa
ossan
palaeosol
paperhanger
parlophones
parvicellular nuclei
pentaolonia nigronervosa conquerel
phagological
phenylglycolic acid
physcomitrium sphaericum
pilot nut
pion beam
plug type connector
pnagus
polemical treatise
production of record
profit reserve
protection against radiation
purin
Quiroguite
raised atoll
reconsecrate
response to open-flame exposure
Safioune, Sebkhet
selecting
self-directeds
self-noughting
sexual violence
short residue
South Loup R.
strehte
subnormal depreciation
Syro
Taco, R.
teacher welfare
thermal ionization
tin-weighted silk
Turkish manna
two-sloe
ungulicutate
urostalagmometry
variable thermal control surface
vastatin
vertical-lathe
water plate
wheel-speed
whirling paddle
yeg-
Yüksekova