时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读II


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[00:00.11]12.Detour 1 to Romance 2


[00:06.39]Harry 3 came in the station two years ago and waited at the head of the stairs for his girl from the 9:05 train.


[00:12.60]He was all dressed up and they would be married twenty minutes after she arrived.


[00:17.17]All the passengers had left and she didn’t show up.


[00:20.87]She didn’t come on the 9:18 either, nor on the 9:40, and when the passengers from the 10:02 had all arrived and left,


[00:29.26]Harry was looking pretty desperate.


[00:31.65]I asked him what she looked like.


[00:33.50]“She’s small and dark,” he said, “and her eyebrows 4 come to a little point in the middle.”


[00:39.60]He showed me the telegram he’d received: ARRIVE THURSDAY. MEET ME AT STATION. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE. MAY.


[00:49.73]“Well,” I finally said, “why don’t you phone to your home?


[00:54.96]She’s probably called there if she got in ahead of you.”


[00:57.67]He gave me a sick look. “I’ve only been in town two days.


[01:02.47]She hasn’t any address for me.” He touched the telegram.


[01:06.06]Harry met every train for the next three or four days.


[01:10.42]One day, after about two weeks, Harry was behind the counter of Tony’s magazine and he began to work as a clerk for Tony.


[01:19.13]I noticed that Harry always saw every person who came up the stairs.


[01:23.37]One year passed, and another, then came yesterday. I heard a cry.


[01:30.45]The cry was from Harry and he was grabbing 5 a girl.


[01:34.48]She was small and dark and her eyebrows came to a little point in the middle.


[01:38.73]For a while they just hung there laughing and crying.


[01:42.43]He told her the many things he had done to find her.


[01:45.48]What apparently 6 had happened two years before was that May had come by bus, not by train,


[01:51.90]and in her telegram she meant “bus station,” not “railroad station.”


[01:56.16]She had waited at the bus station for days and had spent all her money trying to find Harry.


[02:01.71]Finally she got a job typing.


[02:04.10]“What?” said Harry, “Have you been working in town? All the time?”


[02:08.78]She nodded.


[02:10.09]“Well, Heavens. Didn’t you ever come down here to the station?”


[02:13.90]He pointed 7 across to his magazine stand, “I’ve been there all the time and watched everybody that came up the stairs.”


[02:20.33]She began to look a little pale.


[02:22.83]Pretty soon she looked over at the stairs and said in a weak voice, “I never came up the stairs before.


[02:28.51]I went out of town yesterday on a short business trip. Oh, Harry!”


[02:33.00]Then she threw her arms around his neck and really began to cry.


[02:37.69]After a minute she backed away and pointed toward 8 the north end of the station.


[02:42.29]“Harry, for two years, for two solid years,


[02:45.90]I’ve been right over there working right in this very station, typing, in the office of the stationmaster.”




1 detour
n.绕行的路,迂回路;v.迂回,绕道
  • We made a detour to avoid the heavy traffic.我们绕道走,避开繁忙的交通。
  • He did not take the direct route to his home,but made a detour around the outskirts of the city.他没有直接回家,而是绕到市郊兜了个圈子。
2 romance
n.恋爱关系,浪漫气氛,爱情小说,传奇
  • She wrote a romance about an artist's life in Tokyo.她写了一个关于一位艺术家在东京生活的浪漫故事。
  • They tried to rekindle the flames of romance.他们试图重燃爱火。
3 harry
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
4 eyebrows
眉毛( eyebrow的名词复数 )
  • Eyebrows stop sweat from coming down into the eyes. 眉毛挡住汗水使其不能流进眼睛。
  • His eyebrows project noticeably. 他的眉毛特别突出。
5 grabbing
v.抢先,抢占( grab的现在分词 );(尤指匆忙地)取;攫取;(尤指自私、贪婪地)捞取
  • The plane was grabbing for altitude. 这架飞机在抢占高度。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He sprang to his feet, grabbing his keys off the coffee table. 他一跃而起,从茶几上一把抓起自己的钥匙。 来自辞典例句
6 apparently
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
7 pointed
adj.尖的,直截了当的
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
8 toward
prep.对于,关于,接近,将近,向,朝
  • Suddenly I saw a tall figure approaching toward the policeman.突然间我看到一个高大的身影朝警察靠近。
  • Upon seeing her,I smiled and ran toward her. 看到她我笑了,并跑了过去。
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Histostab
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