【时间旅行者的妻子】10
时间：2019-01-01 作者：英语课 分类：时间旅行者的妻子
英语课
It begins with September 23, 1977, and ends sixteen small, blue, puppied pages later on May 24, 1989. I count. There are 152 dates, written with great care in the large open Palmer Method blue ball point pen of a six-year-old.
“You made the list? These are all accurate?”
“Actually, you dictated 1 this to me. You told me a few years ago that you memorized the dates from this list. So I don’t know how exactly this exists; I mean, it seems sort of like a Mobius strip. But they are accurate. I used them to know when to go down to the Meadow to meet you.” The waitress reappears and we order: Tom Kha Kai for me and Gang Mussaman for Clare. A waiter brings tea and I pour us each a cup.
“What is the Meadow?” I am practically hopping 2 with excitement. I have never met anyone from my future before, much less a Botticelli who has encountered me 152 times.
“The Meadow is a part of my parents’ place up in Michigan. There’s woods at one edge of it, and the house on the opposite end. More or less in the middle is a clearing about ten feet in diameter with a big rock in it, and if you’re in the clearing no one at the house can see you because the land swells 3 up and then dips in the clearing. I used to play there because I liked to play by myself and I thought no one knew I was there. One day when I was in first grade I came home from school and went out to the clearing and there you were.”
“Stark naked and probably throwing up.”
“Actually, you seemed pretty self-possessed. I remember you knew my name, and I remember you vanishing quite spectacularly. In retrospect 4, it’s obvious that you had been there before. I think the first time for you was in 1981; I was ten. You kept saying ‘Oh my god,’ and staring at me. Also, you seemed pretty freaked out about the nudity, and by then I just kind of took it for granted that this old nude 5 guy was going to magically appear from the future and demand clothing.” Clare smiles. “And food.”
“What’s funny?”
“You made the list? These are all accurate?”
“Actually, you dictated 1 this to me. You told me a few years ago that you memorized the dates from this list. So I don’t know how exactly this exists; I mean, it seems sort of like a Mobius strip. But they are accurate. I used them to know when to go down to the Meadow to meet you.” The waitress reappears and we order: Tom Kha Kai for me and Gang Mussaman for Clare. A waiter brings tea and I pour us each a cup.
“What is the Meadow?” I am practically hopping 2 with excitement. I have never met anyone from my future before, much less a Botticelli who has encountered me 152 times.
“The Meadow is a part of my parents’ place up in Michigan. There’s woods at one edge of it, and the house on the opposite end. More or less in the middle is a clearing about ten feet in diameter with a big rock in it, and if you’re in the clearing no one at the house can see you because the land swells 3 up and then dips in the clearing. I used to play there because I liked to play by myself and I thought no one knew I was there. One day when I was in first grade I came home from school and went out to the clearing and there you were.”
“Stark naked and probably throwing up.”
“Actually, you seemed pretty self-possessed. I remember you knew my name, and I remember you vanishing quite spectacularly. In retrospect 4, it’s obvious that you had been there before. I think the first time for you was in 1981; I was ten. You kept saying ‘Oh my god,’ and staring at me. Also, you seemed pretty freaked out about the nudity, and by then I just kind of took it for granted that this old nude 5 guy was going to magically appear from the future and demand clothing.” Clare smiles. “And food.”
“What’s funny?”
v.大声讲或读( dictate的过去式和过去分词 )；口授；支配；摆布
- He dictated a letter to his secretary. 他向秘书口授信稿。
- No person of a strong character likes to be dictated to. 没有一个个性强的人愿受人使唤。 来自《简明英汉词典》
增强( swell的第三人称单数 )； 肿胀； （使）凸出； 充满（激情）
- The waters were heaving up in great swells. 河水正在急剧上升。
- A barrel swells in the middle. 水桶中部隆起。
n.回顾，追溯；v.回顾，回想，追溯
- One's school life seems happier in retrospect than in reality.学校生活回忆起来显得比实际上要快乐。
- In retrospect,it's easy to see why we were wrong.回顾过去就很容易明白我们的错处了。