【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 57

He is halfway across the room, his hand sunk to the wrist in his open satchel which still hangs off his shoulder. His walk silent. He turns and pauses beside the bed. As the English patient completes one of his long exhalations kip snips the wire of

【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 58

David Caravaggioan absurd name for you, of course ... The English patient says. At least I have a name. Yes. Caravaggio sits in Hanas chair. Afternoon sun fills the room, revealing the swimming motes.The Englishman turns to him. Theres a painting by

【有声英语文学名著】英语听力 64

How much she is in love with him or he with her we dont know. Or how much it is a game of secrets. As theygrow intimate the space between them during the day grows larger. She likes the distance he leaves her, the space he assumes is their right. She

【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 59

Tell me, is it possible to love someone who is not as smart as you are? in a belligerent morphine rush, wanted the mood of argument. This is something that has concerned me most of my sexual lifewhich began late, I must announce to this select compa

【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 41

The sapper stood, his hands raised above him as if he were holding a giant cobweb. He was shaking his head to get free of the earphones. As she ran towards him he yelled at her to circle to the left, there were mine wires all over the place. She stop

【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 50

There was a muffled noise, and the sapper turned quickly and looked out of the window, into the darkness. The others froze. It could have been a mine. He turned back to the party and said, Its all right, it wasnt a mine. That seemed to come from a cl

【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 49

The sapper shrugged, not modestly, but as if it was too complicated to explain. Night fell fast, night filled up the valley and then the mountains and they were left once more with lanterns. They were shuffling together in the corridors towards the E

【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 48

She woke when the caterpillar moved from the collar of her dress onto her cheek, and she opened her eyes, saw him crouched over her. He plucked it from her face, not touching her skin, and placed it in the grass. She noticed he had already packed up

【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 47

The successful defusing of a bomb ended novels. Wise white fatherly men shook hands, were acknowledged, and limped away, having been coaxed out of solitude for this special occasion. But he was a professional. And he remained the foreigner, the Sikh.

【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 46

But he felt he was now within something, perhaps a painting he had seen somewhere in the last year. Some secure couple in a field. How many he had seen with their laziness of sleep, with no thought of work or the dangers of the world. If he were a he

【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 45

Her mouth was against his shirt. He lay with her on the ground as still as he had to, his eyes clear, looking up into a branch. He could hear her deep breath. When he had put his arm around her shoulder she was already asleep but had gripped it again

【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 44

I wanted to place my fingers against it. Ive always liked flesh the colour of rivers and rocks or like the brown eye of a Susan, do you know what that flower is? I am so tired, Kip, I want to sleep. I want to sleep under this tree, put my eye against

【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 43

Stepping up to her, he cut the wire below her left fist before the theorem faded, the sound like something bitten through with a tooth. He saw the dark print of her dress along her shoulder, against her neck. The bomb was dead. He dropped the cutters

【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 42

He opened up his satchel for the Geiger counter and magnet. He ran the dial up and along the wires she was holding. No swerve to negative. No clue. Nothing. He stepped backwards, wondering where the trick could be. Let me tape those to the tree, and

【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 31

She has found dry leaves in that area which she has rolled in her fingers and identified. Now and then after a rain she recognizes the perfume of it. At first he will not come into the house at all. He walks past on some duty or other to do with the

【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 32

She runs out or runs to a window seeing Cara-vaggio too in the corner of her vision, and they will see the sapper waving lazily towards the house, not even turning around from the herb terrace. He is always humming or whistling. Who is whistling? ask

【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 34

(Beside his tent the antenna of a crystal set) is strung up into the trees. Hana can see the phosphorus green from the radio dial if she looks over there at night with Caravaggios field glasses, the sappers shifting body covering it up suddenly if he

【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 35

After a week of the Sikh sappers presence around the villa they adapted to his habits of eating. Wherever he wason the hill or in the villagehe would return around twelve-thirty and join Hana and Caravaggio, pull out the small bundle of blue handkerc

【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 36

Caravaggio and the sapper take a trip by cart down into the valley to pick up a sack of flour. Also, the soldier has to deliver maps of the cleared areas to headquarters at San Domenico. Finding it difficult to ask questions about each other, they sp

【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 37

The Englishman turned to her and said, Were getting along famously! She was put out that the sapper had strolled casually into this domain, seemed able to surround her, be everywhere. Kip, hearing from Caravaggio that the patient knew about guns, had