【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 78
时间：2018-12-18 作者：英语课 分类：有声英语文学名著
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I left them with the others and went to join a man in Kufra and spent many days with him, trying out theories I had kept secret from the rest of the expedition. I returned to the base camp at El Jof three nights later. The desert fire was between us. The Cliftons, Madox, Bell and myself. I left them with the others and went to join a man in Kufra and spent many days with him, trying out theories I had kept secret from the rest of the expedition. I returned to the base camp at El Jof three nights later. The desert fire was between us. The Cliftons, Madox, Bell and myself. If a man leaned back a few inches he would disappear into darkness.
Katharine Clifton began to recite something, and my head was no longer in the halo of the camp’s twig 1 fire. There was classical blood in her face. Her parents were famous, apparently 2, in the world of legal history. I am a man who did not enjoy poetry until I heard a woman recite it to us. And in that desert she dragged her university days into our midst to describe the stars—the way Adam tenderly taught a woman with gracious metaphors 3.
These then, though unbeheld in deep of night, Shine not in vain, nor think, though men were none, That Heaven would want spectators, God want praise;
1 twig
n.小树枝，嫩枝；v.理解
- He heard the sharp crack of a twig.他听到树枝清脆的断裂声。
- The sharp sound of a twig snapping scared the badger away.细枝突然折断的刺耳声把獾惊跑了。
2 apparently
adv.显然地；表面上，似乎
- An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
- He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。