时间:2018-12-05 作者:英语课 分类:哈利波特与魔法石


英语课

  CHAPTER FOUR


       THE KEEPER OF THE KEYSBOOM.


       They knocked again. Dudley jerked awake. "Where's thecannon?" he said stupidly.

There was a crash behind them and Uncle Vernon came skiddinginto the room. He was holding a rifle in his hands -- now they knewwhat had been in the long, thin package he had brought with them.

"Who's there?" he shouted. "I warn you -- I'm armed!"There was a pause. Then --SMASH!

The door was hit with such force that it swung clean off itshinges and with a deafening 1 crash landed flat on the floor.

A giant of a man was standing 2 in the doorway 3. His face wasalmost completely hidden by a long, shaggy mane of hair and a wild,tangled beard, but you could make out his eyes, glinting like blackbeetles under all the hair.

The giant squeezed his way into the hut, stooping so that hishead just brushed the ceiling. He bent 5 down, picked up the door,and fitted it easily back into its frame. The noise of the stormoutside dropped a little. He turned to look at them all.

"Couldn't make us a cup o' tea, could yeh? It's not been aneasy journey..."He strode over to the sofa where Dudley sat frozen with fear.

"Budge 6 up, yeh great lump," said the stranger.

Dudley squeaked 7 and ran to hide behind his mother, who wascrouching, terrified, behind Uncle Vernon.

"An' here's Harry 8!" said the giant.

Harry looked up into the fierce, wild, shadowy face and sawthat the beetle 4 eyes were crinkled in a smile.

"Las' time I saw you, you was only a baby," said the giant. "Yehlook a lot like yet dad, but yeh've got yet mom's eyes."Uncle Vernon made a funny rasping noise.

I demand that you leave at once, sit!" he said. "You are breakingand entering!""Ah, shut up, Dursley, yeh great prune," said the giant; hereached over the back of the sofa, jerked the gun out of UncleVernon's hands, bent it into a knot as easily as if it had beenmade of rubber, and threw it into a corner of the room.

Uncle Vernon made another funny noise, like a mouse beingtrodden on.

"Anyway -- Harry," said the giant, turning his back on theDursleys, "a very happy birthday to yeh. Got summat fer yeh here --I mighta sat on it at some point, but it'll taste all right."From an inside pocket of his black overcoat he pulled a slightlysquashed box. Harry opened it with trembling fingers. Inside was alarge, sticky chocolate cake with Happy Birthday Harry written onit in green icing.

Harry looked up at the giant. He meant to say thank you, but thewords got lost on the way to his mouth, and what he said instead was,"Who are you?"The giant chuckled 9.

"True, I haven't introduced meself. Rubeus Hagrid, Keeper ofKeys and Grounds at Hogwarts."He held out an enormous hand and shook Harry's whole arm.

"What about that tea then, eh?" he said, rubbing his handstogether. "I'd not say no ter summat stronger if yeh've got it,mind."His eyes fell on the empty grate with the shriveled chip bags init and he snorted. He bent down over the fireplace; they couldn't seewhat he was doing but when he drew back a second later, there wasa roaring fire there. It filled the whole damp hut with flickeringlight and Harry felt the warmth wash over him as though he'd sunkinto a hot bath.



1 deafening
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
2 doorway
n.门口,(喻)入门;门路,途径
  • They huddled in the shop doorway to shelter from the rain.他们挤在商店门口躲雨。
  • Mary suddenly appeared in the doorway.玛丽突然出现在门口。
3 beetle
n.甲虫,近视眼的人
  • A firefly is a type of beetle.萤火虫是一种甲虫。
  • He saw a shiny green beetle on a leaf.我看见树叶上有一只闪闪发光的绿色甲虫。
4 bent
n.爱好,癖好;adj.弯的;决心的,一心的
  • He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
  • We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。
5 budge
v.移动一点儿;改变立场
  • We tried to lift the rock but it wouldn't budge.我们试图把大石头抬起来,但它连动都没动一下。
  • She wouldn't budge on the issue.她在这个问题上不肯让步。
6 squeaked
v.短促地尖叫( squeak的过去式和过去分词 );吱吱叫;告密;充当告密者
  • The radio squeaked five. 收音机里嘟嘟地发出五点钟报时讯号。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • Amy's shoes squeaked on the tiles as she walked down the corridor. 埃米走过走廊时,鞋子踩在地砖上嘎吱作响。 来自辞典例句
7 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。
8 chuckled
轻声地笑( chuckle的过去式和过去分词 )
  • She chuckled at the memory. 想起这件事她就暗自发笑。
  • She chuckled softly to herself as she remembered his astonished look. 想起他那惊讶的表情,她就轻轻地暗自发笑。
学英语单词
accidental admission of vapo(u)r
acid neutralizing capacity
adult-only
affine coordinate ring
allotherapy
angiomyces
Ashm.
averaging control
be at an advantage
best actor
bleaching earth activated
blow-off cock
borazines
Bursera simaruba
butterflies in the stomach
carpet pick
chiropterans
chlorinolog
circle point curve
Clindamicin
compensability
Conselheiro Pena
continuous driving test
copper abietinate
credit default swaps
crude battery
cube cells
defecatory
diaphragm regulator
dien bien phus
digital phase meter
double-word length
doutor camargo (chapeu)
drop something into someone's lap
dry-steam energy system
dump plate
Eberth's lines
Elevated command prompt
enrolee
fire resistant agent
fist pumps
floral analysis
gasoline burn
gave occasion to
geometric method of satellite geodesy
gharst
grey sages
half-price
hardigree
himatia
homo erectus heidelbergensis
housefathers
integrating electric timer
intramurally
inviters
jet agitator
Leuglay
lignify
limited decision making
lookie
main wash heating phase
megasporogenesis
metal card memory
methylmercuries
negative fractional exponent
NPCIL (Nuclear Power Co. of India Ltd.)
octacosactrine
operating administration
optimum consumptive use
organoperoxys
Pamitene
partner portal
periptere
phosphorous oxide
radio-stations
recombinant human plasminogen
resin tin
rest oneself
rhamnogalacturonase
Samaraskaya Oblast'
Sandared
servosystems
sextuple apparatus
skinned over
sky line
statistical constant
stuffed chicken
subtransmission
supper-coated open-tubular
team track
thMiopropyl
thorium dioxide
throttle (pneumatic)
trabbi
track split
twisting-moment
ultraviolet technology
unshared structure
Veronica filipes
vesicocolic
water cooled transformer
weatherwise