时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:有声英语文学名著


英语课
“You've tied yourself to a corpse 1 for some reason.” 
 
 
“He is a saint. I think. A despairing saint. Are there such things? Our desire is to protect them.” 
 
 
“He doesn't even care!” Caravaggio said.
“I can love him.” 
 
 
“A twenty-year-old who throws herself out of the world to love a ghost!” 
 
 
Caravaggio paused. “You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else's poison— thinking you can cure them by sharing it—you will instead store it within you. Those men in the desert were smarter than you. They assumed he could be useful. So they saved him, but when he was no longer useful they left him.”
 
 
“Leave me alone.” Hana said.
 
 
In her childhood her classroom had been Caravaggio. He had taught her the somersault. Now, with his hands always in his pockets, he just gestures with his shoulders. Who knew what country the war had made him live in. She herself had been trained at Women’s College Hospital and then sent overseas during the Sicilian invasion. That was in 1943. The First Canadian Infantry 2 Division worked its way up Italy, and the destroyed bodies were fed back to the field hospitals like mud passed back by tunnellers in the dark. After the battle of Arezzo, when the first barrage 3 of troops recoiled 4, she was surrounded day and night by their wounds. After three full days without rest, she finally lay down on the floor beside a mattress 5 where someone lay dead, and slept for twelve hours, closing her eyes against the world around her. 
When she woke, she picked up a pair of scissors out of the porcelain bowl, leaned over and began to cut her hair, 

1 corpse
n.尸体,死尸
  • What she saw was just an unfeeling corpse.她见到的只是一具全无感觉的尸体。
  • The corpse was preserved from decay by embalming.尸体用香料涂抹以防腐烂。
2 infantry
n.[总称]步兵(部队)
  • The infantry were equipped with flame throwers.步兵都装备有喷火器。
  • We have less infantry than the enemy.我们的步兵比敌人少。
3 barrage
n.火力网,弹幕
  • The attack jumped off under cover of a barrage.进攻在炮火的掩护下开始了。
  • The fierce artillery barrage destroyed the most part of the city in a few minutes.猛烈的炮火几分钟内便毁灭了这座城市的大部分地区。
4 recoiled
v.畏缩( recoil的过去式和过去分词 );退缩;报应;返回
  • She recoiled from his touch. 她躲开他的触摸。
  • Howard recoiled a little at the sharpness in my voice. 听到我的尖声,霍华德往后缩了一下。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 mattress
n.床垫,床褥
  • The straw mattress needs to be aired.草垫子该晾一晾了。
  • The new mattress I bought sags in the middle.我买的新床垫中间陷了下去。
学英语单词
acid rocker
Adams, Samuel
adjusted selling price method
Aframerican
Aldeburgh
amigos
anodic oxidation passivation
audit programs
Baja California, Estado de
balanced rotary relay
be but a joke
binomial distributions
blood fluid
break open
calculated mill capacity
cardiopathologies
central type carcinoma of lung
chaining search
closed universes
colored water
common plantains
constant motion
cross-pane hammer
cruickshank
Curinga
cyanogen iodide
Daniel Johnson Dam
dembroxol
desperately-neededs
double conical rotary vessel
draft document
dual channel system
early-detection
electric tube cleaner
electrical coal drill
film projection booth
floweret
fool around with
formates
franas
freshen one's way
galericulatus
gills
googolplex
hadamard
high-performance and low-power cmos design
hydromanicus wulaina
hydromodification
inoculated (cast) iron
Karleigh
knot tying machine
laser injection
line up against
lumbar anesthesia needle
man of parts
microhalos
monadal
multicolored filter
multipen oscillometer
mutational load (muller 1950)
n-nonyl alcohol
negative differential resistance region
nonpolarized electrode
outer regulator corrector
peckerwood
Prebitz
principal beam
probability unit method
pushknee
re-espouse
reflected signal indicator
rhombporphyry
seasoned duck
seiss
shaly structure
short fetched
shunt loading
slides out
stock subscription
struik
synflorescence
tanzens
Tate's Cairn Highway
technobureaucrat
tettery
thallous monothioperrhenate
total system optimization
triplet particle
triquint
tropical astrology
upcounter
vacciolate
Vernicia fordii
vio-lence
walking carpets
wewak
work ... off
world tonnage
wrecking pump
Yio Chu Kang
Zeyheria
zhamnov