【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 25
时间：2018-12-18 作者：英语课 分类：有声英语文学名著
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It must have seemed to him that the dog—now blocked by Hana’s back —had turned into a man. Caravaggio collected the dog in his arms and left the room. He poured some water into a bowl for the dog. An old mongrel, older than the war.
He sat down with the carafe 1 of wine the monks 2 from the monastery 3 had given Hana. It was Hana’s house and he moved carefully, rearranging nothing. He noticed her civilisation 4 in the small wildflowers, the small gifts to herself. Even in the overgrown garden he would come across a square foot of grass snipped 5 down with her nurse’s scissors. If he had been a younger man he would have fallen in love with this.
He was no longer young. How did she see him? With his wounds, his unbalance, the grey curls at the back of his neck. He had never imagined himself to be a man with a sense of age and wisdom. They had all grown older, but he still did not feel he had wisdom to go with his aging. He crouched 6 down to watch the dog drinking and he rebalanced himself too late, grabbing the table, upsetting the carafe of wine.
1 carafe
n.玻璃水瓶
- She lifted the stopper from the carafe.她拔出玻璃酒瓶上的瓶塞。
- He ordered a carafe of wine.他要了一瓶葡萄酒。
2 monks
n.修道士，僧侣( monk的名词复数 )
- The monks lived a very ascetic life. 僧侣过着很清苦的生活。
- He had been trained rigorously by the monks. 他接受过修道士的严格训练。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 monastery
n.修道院，僧院，寺院
- They found an icon in the monastery.他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像。
- She was appointed the superior of the monastery two years ago.两年前她被任命为这个修道院的院长。
4 civilisation
n.文明，文化，开化，教化
- Energy and ideas are the twin bases of our civilisation.能源和思想是我们文明的两大基石。
- This opera is one of the cultural totems of Western civilisation.这部歌剧是西方文明的文化标志物之一。