【荆棘鸟】第二章 02

The year was 1787. His fleet of eleven ships held over one thousand convicts, plus sailors, naval officers and a contingent of marines. No glorious odyssey in search of freedom, this. At the end of January 1788, eight months after setting sail from E

【荆棘鸟】第一章 11

Well, it would have to wait until the morning, when no doubt the pillow would be wet, too. He always did that, reversed himself and then wet once more.Well, one bedwetter among five boys wasn't bad. Meggie was curled into a little heap, with her thum

【荆棘鸟】第二章 16

and no idea in the world how to make the afflicted limb do what Sister Agatha insisted it could. She became mentally deaf, dumb and blind; that useless appendage her right hand was no more linked to her thought processes than her toes. She dribbled a

【荆棘鸟】第二章 18

she was too busy trying to remember how many plates there were in Teresa's willow pattern tea set. And when the Maoris in the organ gallery broke into glorious song, Meggie's head was spinning in a daze of ultramarine blue far removed from Catholicis

【荆棘鸟】第二章 23

Meggie held her head up and kept her eyes dry. She was learning. It didn't matter what anyone else thought, it didn't, it didn't! The other girls avoided her, half because they were frightened of Bob and Jack, half because the word had got around the

【荆棘鸟】第二章 26

God, why weren't you older, so I could talk to you? Or maybe it's better that you're so little, maybe it's better . . . . He let her go abruptly, struggling to master himself, rolling his head back and forth against the log, his throat and mouth work

【荆棘鸟】第三章 10

我不明白，你怎么早没想到呢。他说。 哦，我想到了。不过，直到最近我才想到我最不希望发生的事就是有许多贪婪的人急不可耐地等着我咽下最后一口气。只是在最近，我的寿终之日似乎比

【荆棘鸟】第三章 15

我希望你能告诉我，妈。 她叹了口气，合上了古钢琴，抹掉了手指上的金粉。没什么可说的，根本就没有什么可说的。得了，帮我把这些东西挪到屋子中间去，这样你爸就好包装了。 这次航程

【荆棘鸟】第四章 06

it was a hundred and twenty degrees. Their many layers of clothing were close-fitting and designed for New Zealand, where inside the house it was almost always cool. Mary Carson, exercising gently by walking down to see her sister-in-law, looked at

【荆棘鸟】第五章 01

Let me buy the next one, old man, Paddy said genially to his son. I've got to take Auntie Mary to the Picnic Races luncheon, and I need moral sustenance if I'm going to get through the ordeal without Mum. Habit and awe are harder to overcome than peo

【荆棘鸟】第五章 03

the moment her heels touched the ground he released her, took her mount's reins in his hand and walked on, the lady beside him, matching his stride effortlessly. Will you win the Hunting, Miss Carmichael? he asked in tones of utter indifference. She

【荆棘鸟】第五章 05

Meggie thought they were wearing underclothes, for they were clad in long black tights and vests with closely fitting grey trunks from waists to midthighs. On their chests, big white Roman capitals said JIMMY SHARMAN'S TROUPE. NO two were the same s

【荆棘鸟】第五章 07

one of those strange people who even in the midst of titanic rake still can think. And he lasted the distance, in spite of the punishment those expert fists had meted out; his eye was swelling, his brow and lip cut. But he had won twenty pounds, and

【荆棘鸟】第六章 13

她实际上是个什么样的人，或者他认为她是个什么样的人？ 哦，梅吉。他无能为力地说道。 她转过身来，凝视着他，尽管她很悲痛，还是向他投来了毫不掺假的、充满了爱的一笑。这是恣意纵

【荆棘鸟】第六章 01

你明白吗，梅吉？你爸和弗兰克吵架只是表明弗兰克想走了。这不是因为他们互相厌恶。许多年轻人都是这样做的、这是一种借口。这次吵架给弗兰克找到了一个去做他长期以来就想做的事情

【荆棘鸟】第六章 25

It took all the fear and anguish away. Yet she was young, full of curiosity, eager now to know all there was to know, and not troubled by the perplexing philosophies of those who constantly question not the who of themselves but the why. He was her f

【荆棘鸟】第六章 24

But it continues every month until you're about fifty, and in some women it's as regular as the phases of the moon, in others it's not so predictable. Some women have no pain with it, others suffer a lot of pain. No one knows why it's so different fr

【荆棘鸟】第六章 23

因为他受过神学院的严格教育，这套特殊把戏，他根本不放在眼里。但是，那些姑娘们决不会讲述那些会使她们降低身份的秘事。 拉尔夫德布里克萨特神父竭力想阻止一股热潮在自己的皮肤下

【荆棘鸟】第六章 19

这是一头又野又凶的牲口，它的圈棚被严格地建在圈地之外。梅吉对它怕得要命，从不到它附近的地方去。狗都关在窝里，拴着链子。在帕迪或鲍勃的监视下，狗的交配是以科学方法进行的，

【荆棘鸟】第六章 20

There was no way she could come to terms with death; she lay night after night in a confused terror, trying to imagine if death was perpetual night, or an abyss of flames she had to jump over to reach the golden fields on the far side, or a sphere li