时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:有声英语文学名著


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 They are in the botanical garden, near the Cathedral of All Saints. She sees one tear and leans forward and licks it, taking it into her mouth.( As she has taken the blood from his hand when he cut himself cooking for her. Blood. Tear.) He feels everything is missing from his body, feels he contains smoke. All that is alive is the knowledge of future desire and want. What he would say he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. (He cannot alter what he loves most in her, her lack of compromise, where the romance of the poems she loves still sits with ease in the real world. Outside these qualities he knows there is no order in the world. This night of her insistence 1


Twenty-eighth of September. The rain in the trees already dried by hot moonlight. Not one cool drop to fall down upon him like a tear. This parting at Groppi Park. He has not asked if her husband is home in that high square of light, across the street. He sees the tall row of traveller’s palms above them, their outstretched wrists. The way her head and hair were above him, when she was his lover. )
Now there is no kiss. Just one embrace. He untugs himself from her and walks away, then turns. She is still there. He comes back within a few yards of her, one finger raised to make a point. “I just want you to know. I don’t miss you yet.” His face awful to her, trying to smile. (Her head sweeps away from him and hits the side of the gatepost. He sees it hurt her, notices the wince 2. But they have separated already into themselves now, the walls up at her insistence. Her jerk, her pain, is accidental, is intentional 3. Her hand is near her temple. )

1 insistence
n.坚持;强调;坚决主张
  • They were united in their insistence that she should go to college.他们一致坚持她应上大学。
  • His insistence upon strict obedience is correct.他坚持绝对服从是对的。
2 wince
n.畏缩,退避,(因痛苦,苦恼等)面部肌肉抽动;v.畏缩,退缩,退避
  • The barb of his wit made us wince.他那锋芒毕露的机智使我们退避三舍。
  • His smile soon modified to a wince.他的微笑很快就成了脸部肌肉的抽搐。
3 intentional
adj.故意的,有意(识)的
  • Let me assure you that it was not intentional.我向你保证那不是故意的。
  • His insult was intentional.他的侮辱是有意的。
学英语单词
amphibiously
anterior labial nerves
artificial wave
barat
bribering
bronze vessels
canary stone
Cannock Chase
certain varieties of soybean
cheilalgia
cibophobia
cipi
classical-style
closed position
competitive list
computer bound system
connection error
contact heat exchanger
coscinodiscus curvatulus
crankshaft nut
dbrc data-sharing control
dimaprit
diode rectifier-amplifier meter
diver lock out submersible
elbow-deep
electron gas
english phonetics
EPCS (emergency plant cooldown system)
ergotamine tartrate injection
euronithopods
exit barrier
ferric pyrosulfate
finger fuck
gang-flower
generating station of ship
geode
gestations
get-rich
gross plant efficiency
hematocytosis
hexacene
human information input channel
immersion sintering
in snatches
Kalnik
Karabau
leonhardite
leucine zippers
liquid moderated reactor
litost
luven
make one's apology
malmarsh
mensless
mesocolic band
Metacopa
microstructures
misfiguring
molybdic oxide
nonblurring
nosell
out-reach
output hunting loss
pasteurized milk
pellitteri
perceived
permanent-magnet moving-coil instrument
phase detecting element
photointerpretation
posterodorsad
premission
primary metalworking
Puebla de Alcocer
Rainday
real-time information
repackagers
roodepoort
rosin size
rubber gage
sauropterygian
scyewed joint
sea-bordering
seeker azimuth orientation
self contempt
semi drop center rim
shot depth
Sila Piccola
single layer three phase winding
soilbrom
state control
taffeta faconne
telecomms
thromboembolic syndrome
TL (transmission line)
travel of underground water
turf court
untempter
water in oil emulsion
wishbook
wringle
zone line face-off spot
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