【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 87-英语课

时间：2018-12-18 作者：英语课 分类：有声英语文学名著

英语课

He sweeps his arm across plates and glasses on a restaurant table so she might look up somewhere else in the city hearing this cause of noise. When he is without her. He, who has never felt alone in the miles of longitude 1 between desert towns. （A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something that feeds him more than water. There is a plant he knows of near El Taj, whose heart, if one cuts it out, is replaced with a fluid containing herbal goodness. Every morning one can drink the liquid the amount of a missing heart. The plant continues to flourish for a year before it dies from some lack or other. ）

He lies in his room surrounded by the pale maps. He is without Katharine. His hunger wishes to burn down all social rules, all courtesy. Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute and secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal 2, theirforeignness intimate like two pages of a closed book. He has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to?

（When she is within the wall of her class and he is beside her in larger groups he tells jokes he doesn’t laugh at himself. Uncharacteristically manic, he attacks the history of exploration. When he is unhappy he does this. Only Madox recognizes the habit. But she will not even catch his eye. She smiles to everyone, to the objects in the room, praises a flower arrangement, worthless impersonal 3 things. She misinterprets his behaviour, assuming this is what he wants, and doubles the size of the wall to protect herself. But now he cannot bear this wall in her. You built your walls too, she tells him, so I have my wall. She says it glittering in a beauty he cannot stand. She with her beautiful clothes, with her pale face that laughs at everyone who smiles at her, with the
uncertain grin for his angry jokes. He continues his appalling 4 statements about this and that in some expedition they are all familiar with.

The minute she turns away from him in the lobby of Grop-pi’s bar after he greets her, he is insane. He knows the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall. Sunlight pours into his Cairo room. His hand flabby over the Herodotus journal, all the tension in the rest of his body, so he writes words down wrong, the pen sprawling 5 as if without spine 6. He can hardly write down the word sunlight. The words in love. ）In the apartment there is light only from the river and the desert beyond it. It falls upon her neck her feet the vaccination 7 scar he loves on her right arm.

1 longitude

n.经线，经度

The city is at longitude 21°east.这个城市位于东经21度。
He noted the latitude and longitude,then made a mark on the admiralty chart.他记下纬度和经度，然后在航海图上做了个标记。

2 minimal

adj.尽可能少的，最小的

They referred to this kind of art as minimal art.他们把这种艺术叫微型艺术。
I stayed with friends, so my expenses were minimal.我住在朋友家，所以我的花费很小。

3 impersonal

adj.无个人感情的，与个人无关的，非人称的

Even his children found him strangely distant and impersonal.他的孩子们也认为他跟其他人很疏远，没有人情味。
His manner seemed rather stiff and impersonal.他的态度似乎很生硬冷淡。

4 appalling

adj.骇人听闻的，令人震惊的，可怕的

The search was hampered by appalling weather conditions.恶劣的天气妨碍了搜寻工作。
Nothing can extenuate such appalling behaviour.这种骇人听闻的行径罪无可恕。

5 sprawling

adj.蔓生的，不规则地伸展的v.伸开四肢坐[躺]( sprawl的现在分词 )；蔓延；杂乱无序地拓展；四肢伸展坐着（或躺着）