时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:有声英语文学名著


英语课

 How much she is in love with him or he with her we don’t know. Or how much it is a game of secrets. As theygrow intimate 1 the space between them during the day grows larger. She likes the distance he leaves her, the space he assumes 2 is their right. 


She learns all the varieties of his darkness. The colour of his forearm against the colour of his neck. The colour of his palms, his cheek, the skin under the turban. The darkness of fingers separating red and black wires, or against bread he picks off the gunmetal plate he still uses for food. 
She loves most the wet colours of his neck when he bathes. And his chest with its sweat which her fingers grip 3 when he is over her, and the dark, tough arms in the darkness of his tent, or one time in her room when light from the valley’s city, finally free of curfew, rose among them like twilight 4 and lit the colour of his body. 
Later she will realize he never allowed himself to be beholden to her, or her to him. 

1 intimate
adj.亲密的,密切的;个人的,私人的;v.暗示、提示、宣布、通知
  • The two of them were as intimate as sisters.她们俩处得好像亲姐妹一样。
  • I can't tell them my intimate thoughts.我不能告诉他们我内心深处的想法。
2 assumes
取得(权力)( assume的第三人称单数 ); 假设; 假定; 呈现
  • The motion of matter always assumes certain forms. 物质的运动总是表现为一定的形式。
  • It is usually the woman who assumes overall care of the baby. 通常由女性负责照顾孩子的方方面面。
3 grip
v.握紧,紧握;吸引;引起;n.紧握,控制
  • He keeps a firm grip on his children.他对孩子们管得很严。
  • The brake doesn't grip properly.煞车不灵。
4 twilight
n.暮光,黄昏;暮年,晚期,衰落时期
  • Twilight merged into darkness.夕阳的光辉融于黑暗中。
  • Twilight was sweet with the smell of lilac and freshly turned earth.薄暮充满紫丁香和新翻耕的泥土的香味。
学英语单词
-cic
abandonments
agricultural export crop
aleurolobus barodensis
alpine desert
autologic
Aymaran languages
barometric tube
basophil, basophile
Belfield's operation
bioequivalence test
book reader
bootlegs
brawniness
bull into
cholangioscopy
chromatid segregation
chromosome elimination (seiler & haniel 1921)
combined service
concrete deck cable stayed bridge
corroborants
Cremosuxidine
crode
daniel ortega saavedras
diacetonuria
dispersants
down-wind WTG
duty insurance
early equivalent network
effective steam pressure
explosive separation
extemporise
exteriours
fillet tract
flight area
flux residue
forthrast
gingahs
grantiid
hafnium metal powder
harshaw
hernarias
high speed compound terminal
hourglass shaped spring
Ilek
inter-company accounts
jeddahs
laminated particle-board
leeswoods
lifting table
lightened
LRC - longitudinal redundancy check
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron
malendomas
mental representations
motion picture film processing plant
mountain maple
mulitpath effect
necking
oil charge valve
oxo synthesis
oxygen limiter
pcna
perchloroethylene
perifollicular macular atrophy
picksies
Pilea Lindl.
Polymita
popsci
PPD-B
primer brass
problem program partition
rabbit oral-papillomatosis virus
rated lamp wattage
relocation diffusion
rocket turbopump assembly
runways.
Sage, Russell
sapphirinid
secondary polyploid
send to the wash
sick puppy
side action die
Smoothstone R.
Solanum suffruticosum
spruce needle rust
stool-ball
strenuous test
striking of cutting
substantial defence
supersaturations
tank sheet-iron
three-sphere theorem
tropudalf
ultraviolet spectrums
veitchianus
virilizes
Wundt
xylene poisoning
yokings
zeugma
zitis