时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:有声英语文学名著


英语课
Caravaggio leaves the party in a car.  It crunches 1 over the slowly curving gravel 2 path leading out of the grounds, the automobile 3 purring, serene 4 as ink within the summer night. For the rest of the evening during the Villa 5 Cosima gathering 6 he had been looking at the photographer, spinning his body away whenever she lifted the camera to photograph in his direction. Now that he knows of its existence he can avoid it. He moves into the range of her dialogue, her name is Anna, mistress to an officer, who will be staying here in the villa for the night and then in the morning will travel north through Tuscany. The death of the woman or the woman’s sudden disappearance 7 will only arouse suspicion. Nowadays anything out of the ordinary is investigated. 
 
Four hours later, he runs over the grass in his socks, his shadow curled under him, painted by the moon. He stops at the gravel path and moves slowly over the grit 8. He looks up at the Villa Cosima, at the square moons of window. A palace of war-women. 
 
A car beam—like something sprayed out of a hose—lights up the room he is in, and he pauses once again in mid-step, seeing that same woman’s eyes on him, a man moving on top of her, his fingers in her blonde hair. And she has seen, he knows, even though now he is naked, the same man she photographed earlier in the crowded party, for by accident he stands the same way now, half turned in surprise at the light that reveals his body in the darkness. The car lights sweep up into a corner of the room and disappear. 
 
Then there is blackness.

1 crunches
n.(突发的)不足( crunch的名词复数 );需要做出重要决策的困难时刻;紧要关头;嘎吱的响声v.嘎吱嘎吱地咬嚼( crunch的第三人称单数 );嘎吱作响;(快速大量地)处理信息;数字捣弄
  • I can't bear the way she crunches the sugar. 我简直看不惯她嚼糖的那副样子。 来自辞典例句
  • Crunches with a twisting motion (to hit obliques) are excellent. 做仰卧起坐时加上转体动作更好。 来自互联网
2 gravel
n.砂跞;砂砾层;结石
  • We bought six bags of gravel for the garden path.我们购买了六袋碎石用来铺花园的小路。
  • More gravel is needed to fill the hollow in the drive.需要更多的砾石来填平车道上的坑洼。
3 automobile
n.汽车,机动车
  • He is repairing the brake lever of an automobile.他正在修理汽车的刹车杆。
  • The automobile slowed down to go around the curves in the road.汽车在路上转弯时放慢了速度。
4 serene
adj. 安详的,宁静的,平静的
  • He has entered the serene autumn of his life.他已进入了美好的中年时期。
  • He didn't speak much,he just smiled with that serene smile of his.他话不多,只是脸上露出他招牌式的淡定的微笑。
5 villa
n.别墅,城郊小屋
  • We rented a villa in France for the summer holidays.我们在法国租了一幢别墅消夏。
  • We are quartered in a beautiful villa.我们住在一栋漂亮的别墅里。
6 gathering
n.集会,聚会,聚集
  • He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
  • He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
7 disappearance
n.消失,消散,失踪
  • He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。
  • Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。
8 grit
n.沙粒,决心,勇气;v.下定决心,咬紧牙关
  • The soldiers showed that they had plenty of grit. 士兵们表现得很有勇气。
  • I've got some grit in my shoe.我的鞋子里弄进了一些砂子。
学英语单词
absorption sensors
airportage
al burghuliyah
aquae plumbi
axillary hair grafting
bandwagoner
billet pusher
Bookabie
brushoffs
bucket wheel trencher
carbon dioxide leakage
carcinosectomy
cerol colors
CFU-Blast
chat bot
chihsia age
Chloranthus henryi
Ciidae
cladoselachids
Clematis napoensis
colluvies
convergence indicator
corpora pampiniforme
cost of structures of water project
Daily Chart
decide
derecha
diameter breast height
differential class
digicorin
divert in
dripplekie
earthquake periodicity
Esaki
feed proportioning system
felicitated
field lateral
Fritillaria pluriflora
Galois
general patton
gerle
go at it
grid measuring system
haloalkaliphilic
helical Bourdon-tube
hepatomegalies
insect vector of rice virus
JSIT
Kilómetro 96
kingdom prokaryotaes
lawnmarkets
Los Alamos County
loved ones
low altitude alert system
low-energy path
Lowville
metalexicographical
millimeter wave amplifiers
multiple-word processing
N-methyl-N-nitro-p-toluenesulfonamide (MNSA)
narvas
Ningbo
non-permissive
not see beyond sth
not well maintained
overaccelerating
paleolongitudinal
parapronoe elongata
pedobaptisms
performance-boosting
platinum-blond
PMIC
pockmarked
polden
prepayment of freight charge
prodigence
prosenneahedral
psychomotor seizure
quartz-lens method
rationalizing denominator
redundancy payment
reefer cargo list
reset bias circuit
resource data file
saxter aithe
schne
Sloanea leptocarpa
stick something on
stoicer
straight line body
table-rapping
taking-up equipment
Terrasson-la-Villedieu
the secession
think light of
tog sb up
torsion prime
vaccum xanthate mixer
velvetier
xvth
your telex
youssuf