【跟着英剧练发音】Parades End E02 - 13
时间：2018-12-26 作者：英语课 分类：跟着英剧练发音
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E: What is it, dear?
D: Sulphur! Can't you smell it? Brimstone. I smelled him out the minute he came in.
E: Who, dear?
D: Beelzebub! He thought I was taken in.
E: You remember Miss Wannop?
D: He takes a pleasing shape.
E: I have just been telling Miss Wannop about Mr Macmaster's circle of beautiful intellects, all devoted 1 to the higher things...
D: But I was ready for him!
E: Beauty, truth, the shepherd's pipe, the gem-like flame, the wine-dark sea...
D: Lord, your servant slept when your handmaiden was taken into bondage 2 with a corset, but he wakes now!
E: The beautiful soul, souls, in harmony with our little gathering 3 of the finer minds, quite the finest really, the very best young writers, artists...
D: And cast out the Devil's new contraption, the brassiere! And all the swaddling and strapping 4 that constricts 5 the freely-flowing and God-glorifying bounty 6 of belly 7 and breast! Of airy buttock...
V: Why, Mr Duchemin, you are one of us! All we new women are united against the corset, it is the very devil! You must write an article for our paper. How splendid.
- He devoted his life to the educational cause of the motherland.他为祖国的教育事业贡献了一生。
- We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
- Masters sometimes allowed their slaves to buy their way out of bondage.奴隶主们有时允许奴隶为自己赎身。
- They aim to deliver the people who are in bondage to superstitious belief.他们的目的在于解脱那些受迷信束缚的人。
- 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。
- The tumour constricts the nerves. 肿瘤压迫神经。
- Fat constricts the blood vessels, making your circulation bad. 脂肪压缩血管，造成你的血液循环不畅。