时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:有声英语文学名著


英语课
Every four days she washes his black body, beginning at the destroyed feet. She wets a washcloth and holding it above his ankles squeezes the water onto him, looking up as he murmurs 1, seeing his smile. Above the shins the burns are worst. Beyond purple. Bone. She has nursed him for months and she knows the body well,( the penis sleeping like a sea horse) the thin tight hips 2. Hipbones of Christ, she thinks. He is her despairing saint. He lies flat on his back, no pillow, looking up at the foliage 3 painted 
onto the ceiling, its canopy 4 of branches, and above that, blue sky. 
 
She pours calamine in stripes across his chest where he is less burned, where she can touch him. (She loves the hollow below the lowest rib 5, its cliff of skin.) Reaching his shoulders she blows cool air onto his neck, and he mutters. 
 
What? she asks, coming out of her concentration. 
He turns his dark face with its grey eyes towards her. She puts her hand into her pocket. She unskins the plum with her teeth, withdraws the stone and passes the flesh of the fruit into his mouth. He whispers again, dragging the listening heart of the young nurse beside him to wherever his mind is, into that well of memory he kept plunging 6 into during those months before he died. 

1 murmurs
n.低沉、连续而不清的声音( murmur的名词复数 );低语声;怨言;嘀咕
  • They spoke in low murmurs. 他们低声说着话。 来自辞典例句
  • They are more superficial, more distinctly heard than murmurs. 它们听起来比心脏杂音更为浅表而清楚。 来自辞典例句
2 hips
abbr.high impact polystyrene 高冲击强度聚苯乙烯,耐冲性聚苯乙烯n.臀部( hip的名词复数 );[建筑学]屋脊;臀围(尺寸);臀部…的
  • She stood with her hands on her hips. 她双手叉腰站着。
  • They wiggled their hips to the sound of pop music. 他们随着流行音乐的声音摇晃着臀部。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 foliage
n.叶子,树叶,簇叶
  • The path was completely covered by the dense foliage.小路被树叶厚厚地盖了一层。
  • Dark foliage clothes the hills.浓密的树叶覆盖着群山。
4 canopy
n.天篷,遮篷
  • The trees formed a leafy canopy above their heads.树木在他们头顶上空形成了一个枝叶茂盛的遮篷。
  • They lay down under a canopy of stars.他们躺在繁星点点的天幕下。
5 rib
n.肋骨,肋状物
  • He broke a rib when he fell off his horse.他从马上摔下来折断了一根肋骨。
  • He has broken a rib and the doctor has strapped it up.他断了一根肋骨,医生已包扎好了。
6 plunging
adj.跳进的,突进的v.颠簸( plunge的现在分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降
  • War broke out again, plunging the people into misery and suffering. 战祸复发,生灵涂炭。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • He is plunging into an abyss of despair. 他陷入了绝望的深渊。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
a cappella singings
accident type
active service
akihiko
allyl diglycocarbonate
almond moths
anisotropic hypofine coupling constant
Baravukha
behavioral criteria
box body dump car
cadastral file
car licence
charge correlator
chestnutty
cobalt carbonate
collateralizes
compressed air source unit
construction process
coordinated inspection visit
cutting electrode holder
decorate ... with
decryption algorithm
di-active amyl succinate
disennobling
E-Cadherins
edifier
equilibrium phase
extended binary-coded decimal interchange code
Federation of British Industries
finback whale
finger rest
flagrable
fly at sb's throat
form as content
fruit-picking
gayl
gold ingot
goods consigned
guide disc
heat ray
in contempt of danger
in their shoes
kadin
kand
Krupp, Alfred
large-panel construction
large-scale manufacturing
last number
loan car
lock pawl
loss due to concrete shrinkage
magnetic basement
marcopulos
matzo balls
metaphase arrest
micro-Omega
Mirandaing
moral lesson
mormyrocerebellum
multivariate negative hypergeometric distribution
muraqabah
nercoes
nitches
nut problem
open the door to sth
open to
overwide
oxide core
pen-writing oscillograph
personal defense weapon
plaintive
plate fin
podocarpus macrophyllus var maki(sieb.)endl.
potted orchid
quaser
R center
reconcele
requirers
rfc 822
Ruffle a few feathers
Schaan
shorthairs
South Williamson
spiraled duct
split rails
stable push
stalactitic
stroke regulating screw
third-last
Tirstrup
touch football
toxin-antitoxin reaction
trammelling
transformed curve
transient characteristic
transverse lines
tubeworms
unattractiveness
virgin bull
visualized model
wine-jar
Wisconsin protocol