时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:有声英语文学名著


英语课
The Englishman was asleep, breathing through his mouth as he always did, awake or asleep.  Suddenly Hana was claustrophobic, untired. She strode down the hall and leapt down the stairs. She pushed at the stiff swollen 1 door and came into the library and then removed the boards from the French doors at the far end of the room, opening them, letting in the night air. Where Caravaggio was, she didn’t know. 
 
She grabbed the grey sheet that covered the piano and walked away to a corner of the room hauling it in after her, 
No light. She heard a far grumble 2 of thunder. 
 
She was standing 3 in front of the piano. Without looking down she lowered her hands and started to play, just chording sound, reducing melody to a skeleton. She was looking down as two men slipped through the French doors and placed their guns on the end of the piano and stood in front of her. The noise of chords still in the air of the changed room.Her arms down her sides, one bare foot on the bass 4 pedal, continuing with the song her mother had taught her, that she practised on any surface, a kitchen table, a wall while she walked upstairs, her own bed before she fell asleep.

1 swollen
adj.肿大的,水涨的;v.使变大,肿胀
  • Her legs had got swollen from standing up all day.因为整天站着,她的双腿已经肿了。
  • A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.蚊子叮了她,她的手臂肿起来了。
2 grumble
vi.抱怨;咕哝;n.抱怨,牢骚;咕哝,隆隆声
  • I don't want to hear another grumble from you.我不愿再听到你的抱怨。
  • He could do nothing but grumble over the situation.他除了埋怨局势之外别无他法。
3 standing
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
4 bass
n.男低音(歌手);低音乐器;低音大提琴
  • He answered my question in a surprisingly deep bass.他用一种低得出奇的声音回答我的问题。
  • The bass was to give a concert in the park.那位男低音歌唱家将在公园中举行音乐会。
学英语单词
accompushments
amplitude ratio-phase difference instrument
anisamide
antigedades
backbar
bashing on
bearing indication
beauvallon
boiling-water
Brevibloc
camp sheeting
candle stick
card reeler
CEW
clearing of accounts
client priority
communistled
compeed
compression of light pulse
couseranite
data flow
Dexasine
disgraciously
disprisoning
Dixonian
eat right
ecbasis
entraining plume
equity share
facultative anaerobes
family therapeutics
febris rubra
floating channel
flotation column
flys
fucko
fund remittance and transfer
gangrenous stomatitis
germylidenes
gingival separator
high energy level pile
hour-hand
human skin
impulsive neurosis
indeprehensible
indifferent air mass
insurance-relateds
intragastrically
Inverness capes
jolliment
k homogeneous grammar
kawamoto
Khvosh Maqām
lagopodous
landing over obstacle
leveraged contract in foreign exchange
Machupicchu
make sail
marine seepage
mechanical friction
midflow
nephometer
Nitropotasse
non-scene
nonlinear deformation
not good enough to
nucleolform
oletimol
ottey
P-anisidine value
phlordzinize
Ponchon-Savarit diagram
Pontchartrain, L.
precisionists
radio sensor
real-value item
recessing-tool
reduction cell
reverting
rotating cylinder (pneumatic)
sandcloth
Sap-flow
sclerospora miscanthi
scorner
secondary focusing
sell for
semi-direct fired pulverizing system
SI batch file service
snipe fish
South Whittier
stealthie
stock base
subapical initial
thomisidae
tire-pressure gauge
towell
twisting(cleland 1949)
Upper Voltans
water-sop
winter moth
XRE
zappily