【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 38
时间：2018-12-18 作者：英语课 分类：有声英语文学名著
英语课
The tales Hana had read to the English patient, travelling with the old wanderer in Kim or with Fabrizio in The Charterhouse of Parma, had intoxicated 1 them in a swirl 2 of armies and horses and wagons—those running away from or running towards a
war.When she begins a book she enters through stilted 3 doorways 4 into large courtyards. Parma and Paris and India spread their carpets. “Read Kipling slowly, dear girl, you must read him slowly. Think about the speed of his pen. That was the English patient’s first lesson about reading. He did not interrupt again. If he happened to fall asleep she would continue, never looking up until she herself was fatigued 5. If he had missed the last half-hour of plot, just one room would be dark in a story he probably already knew.
The tribe that had saved the burned pilot brought him into the British base at Siwa in 1944. He was moved in the midnight ambulance train from the Western Desert to Tunis, then shipped to Italy. At that time of the war there were hundreds of soldiers lost from themselves, more innocent than devious 6. Those who claimed to be uncertain of their nationalities were housed in compounds in Tirrenia, where the sea hospital was. The burned pilot was one more enigma 7.
war.When she begins a book she enters through stilted 3 doorways 4 into large courtyards. Parma and Paris and India spread their carpets. “Read Kipling slowly, dear girl, you must read him slowly. Think about the speed of his pen. That was the English patient’s first lesson about reading. He did not interrupt again. If he happened to fall asleep she would continue, never looking up until she herself was fatigued 5. If he had missed the last half-hour of plot, just one room would be dark in a story he probably already knew.
The tribe that had saved the burned pilot brought him into the British base at Siwa in 1944. He was moved in the midnight ambulance train from the Western Desert to Tunis, then shipped to Italy. At that time of the war there were hundreds of soldiers lost from themselves, more innocent than devious 6. Those who claimed to be uncertain of their nationalities were housed in compounds in Tirrenia, where the sea hospital was. The burned pilot was one more enigma 7.
1 intoxicated
喝醉的，极其兴奋的
- She was intoxicated with success. 她为成功所陶醉。
- They became deeply intoxicated and totally disoriented. 他们酩酊大醉，东南西北全然不辨。
2 swirl
v.(使)打漩，(使)涡卷；n.漩涡，螺旋形
- The car raced roughly along in a swirl of pink dust.汽车在一股粉红色尘土的漩涡中颠簸着快速前进。
- You could lie up there,watching the flakes swirl past.你可以躺在那儿，看着雪花飘飘。
3 stilted
adj.虚饰的；夸张的
- All too soon the stilted conversation ran out.很快这种做作的交谈就结束了。
- His delivery was stilted and occasionally stumbling.他的发言很生硬，有时还打结巴。
4 doorways
n.门口，门道( doorway的名词复数 )
- The houses belched people; the doorways spewed out children. 从各家茅屋里涌出一堆一堆的人群，从门口蹦出一群一群小孩。 来自辞典例句
- He rambled under the walls and doorways. 他就顺着墙根和门楼遛跶。 来自辞典例句
5 fatigued
adj. 疲乏的
- The exercises fatigued her. 操练使她感到很疲乏。
- The President smiled, with fatigued tolerance for a minor person's naivety. 总统笑了笑，疲惫地表现出对一个下级人员的天真想法的宽容。