【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 24
时间：2018-12-18 作者：英语课 分类：有声英语文学名著
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then nestles in his neck. What she holds seems firm, healed. He raises his hands up as if to cup the quarter-moon. “They removed both thumbs, Hana. See.” They handcuffed me to the table legs. When they cut off my thumbs my hands slipped out of them without any power. Like a wish in a dream.When they came into the house the English patient was shouting. Hana let go of Caravaggio and he watched her run up the stairs,The voice filled the halls. Caravaggio walked into the kitchen, tore off a section of bread and followed Hana up the stairs. When he stepped into the bedroom the Englishman was
staring at a dog—the dog’s head angled back as if stunned 1 by the screaming. Hana looked over to Caravaggio and grinned.
“I haven’t seen a dog for years. All through the war I saw no dog.”
She crouched 2 and hugged the animal, smelling its hair and the odour of hill grasses within it. She steered 3 the dog towards Caravaggio, who was offering it the heel of bread. The Englishman saw Caravaggio then and his jaw 4 dropped.