【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 58
时间：2018-12-18 作者：英语课 分类：有声英语文学名著
英语课
David Caravaggio—an absurd name for you, of course ...” The English patient says.
“At least I have a name.”
“Yes.”
Caravaggio sits in Hana’s chair. Afternoon sun fills the room, revealing the swimming motes 1.The Englishman turns to him. “There’s a painting by Caravaggio, done late in his life. David with the Head of Goliath. In it, the young warrior 2 holds at the end of his outstretched arm the head of Goliath, ravaged 3 and old. But that is not the true sadness in the picture. It is assumed that the face of David is a portrait of the youthful Caravaggio and the head of Goliath is a portrait of him as an older man, how he looked when he did the painting. Youth judging age at the end of its outstretched hand. The judging of one’s own mortality. I think when I see him at the foot of my bed that Kip is my David.” Caravaggio sits there in silence, thoughts lost among the floating motes. War has unbalanced him and he can return to no other world as he is, wearing these false limbs that morphine promises. He is a man in middle age who has never become accustomed to families. All his life he has avoided permanent intimacy 4.
He has been a man who slips away, in the way lovers leave chaos 5, the way thieves leave reduced houses. He watches the man in the bed. He needs to know who this Englishman from the desert is, and reveal him for Hana’s sake. Later, sitting with kip and Hanna he said.
1 motes
n.尘埃( mote的名词复数 )；斑点
- In those warm beams the motes kept dancing up and down. 只见温暖的光芒里面，微细的灰尘在上下飞扬。 来自辞典例句
- So I decided to take lots of grammar motes in every class. 因此我决定每堂课多做些语法笔记。 来自互联网
2 warrior
n.勇士，武士，斗士
- The young man is a bold warrior.这个年轻人是个很英勇的武士。
- A true warrior values glory and honor above life.一个真正的勇士珍视荣誉胜过生命。
3 ravaged
毁坏( ravage的过去式和过去分词 )； 蹂躏； 劫掠； 抢劫
- a country ravaged by civil war 遭受内战重创的国家
- The whole area was ravaged by forest fires. 森林火灾使整个地区荒废了。