【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 70
时间：2018-12-18 作者：英语课 分类：有声英语文学名著
in their ever present knapsacks which will always be a part of their bodies. These men of all nations travel at that early evening hour, six o’clock, when there is the light of the solitary 1. It is an anonymous 2 time, most of the city is going home. The explorers arrive too early at Kensington Gore 3, eat at the Lyons Corner House and then enter the Geographical 4 Society, where they sit in the upstairs hall next to the large Maori canoe, going over their notes. At eight o’clock the talks begin. Every other week there is a lecture. Someone will introduce the talk and someone will give thanks.（ The concluding speaker usually argues or tests the lecture for hard currency, is pertinently 5 critical but never impertinent. The main speakers, everyone assumes, stay close to the facts, and even obsessive 6 assumptions are presented modestly. My journey through the Libyan Desert from Sokum on the Mediterranean 7 to El Obeid in the Sudan was made over one of the few tracks of the earth’s surface which present a number and variety of interesting geographical problems.... ）
The years of preparation and research and fund-raising are never mentioned in these oak rooms. The previous week’s lecturer recorded the loss of thirty people in ice in Antarctica. Similar losses in extreme heat or windstorm are announced with minimal 8 eulogy 9. All human and financial behaviour lies on the far side of the issue being discussed—which is the earth’s surface and its “interesting geographical problems.”
- I am rather fond of a solitary stroll in the country.我颇喜欢在乡间独自徜徉。
- The castle rises in solitary splendour on the fringe of the desert.这座城堡巍然耸立在沙漠的边际，显得十分壮美。
- Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
- The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。
- The fox lay dying in a pool of gore.狐狸倒在血泊中奄奄一息。
- Carruthers had been gored by a rhinoceros.卡拉瑟斯被犀牛顶伤了。
- The current survey will have a wider geographical spread.当前的调查将在更广泛的地域范围內进行。
- These birds have a wide geographical distribution.这些鸟的地理分布很广。
- It is one thing to speak much and another to speak pertinently. 说得多是一回事，讲得中肯又是一回事。
- Pertinently pointed out the government, enterprises and industry association shall adopt measures. 有针对性地指出政府、企业和行业协会应采取的措施。
- Some people are obsessive about cleanliness.有些人有洁癖。
- He's becoming more and more obsessive about punctuality.他对守时要求越来越过分了。
- The houses are Mediterranean in character.这些房子都属地中海风格。
- Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean.直布罗陀是地中海的要冲。