时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读II


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[00:00.11]12.Detour 1 to Romance 2


[00:06.39]Harry 3 came in the station two years ago and waited at the head of the stairs for his girl from the 9:05 train.


[00:12.60]He was all dressed up and they would be married twenty minutes after she arrived.


[00:17.17]All the passengers had left and she didn’t show up.


[00:20.87]She didn’t come on the 9:18 either, nor on the 9:40, and when the passengers from the 10:02 had all arrived and left,


[00:29.26]Harry was looking pretty desperate.


[00:31.65]I asked him what she looked like.


[00:33.50]“She’s small and dark,” he said, “and her eyebrows 4 come to a little point in the middle.”


[00:39.60]He showed me the telegram he’d received: ARRIVE THURSDAY. MEET ME AT STATION. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE. MAY.


[00:49.73]“Well,” I finally said, “why don’t you phone to your home?


[00:54.96]She’s probably called there if she got in ahead of you.”


[00:57.67]He gave me a sick look. “I’ve only been in town two days.


[01:02.47]She hasn’t any address for me.” He touched the telegram.


[01:06.06]Harry met every train for the next three or four days.


[01:10.42]One day, after about two weeks, Harry was behind the counter of Tony’s magazine and he began to work as a clerk for Tony.


[01:19.13]I noticed that Harry always saw every person who came up the stairs.


[01:23.37]One year passed, and another, then came yesterday. I heard a cry.


[01:30.45]The cry was from Harry and he was grabbing 5 a girl.


[01:34.48]She was small and dark and her eyebrows came to a little point in the middle.


[01:38.73]For a while they just hung there laughing and crying.


[01:42.43]He told her the many things he had done to find her.


[01:45.48]What apparently 6 had happened two years before was that May had come by bus, not by train,


[01:51.90]and in her telegram she meant “bus station,” not “railroad station.”


[01:56.16]She had waited at the bus station for days and had spent all her money trying to find Harry.


[02:01.71]Finally she got a job typing.


[02:04.10]“What?” said Harry, “Have you been working in town? All the time?”


[02:08.78]She nodded.


[02:10.09]“Well, Heavens. Didn’t you ever come down here to the station?”


[02:13.90]He pointed 7 across to his magazine stand, “I’ve been there all the time and watched everybody that came up the stairs.”


[02:20.33]She began to look a little pale.


[02:22.83]Pretty soon she looked over at the stairs and said in a weak voice, “I never came up the stairs before.


[02:28.51]I went out of town yesterday on a short business trip. Oh, Harry!”


[02:33.00]Then she threw her arms around his neck and really began to cry.


[02:37.69]After a minute she backed away and pointed toward 8 the north end of the station.


[02:42.29]“Harry, for two years, for two solid years,


[02:45.90]I’ve been right over there working right in this very station, typing, in the office of the stationmaster.”




1 detour
n.绕行的路,迂回路;v.迂回,绕道
  • We made a detour to avoid the heavy traffic.我们绕道走,避开繁忙的交通。
  • He did not take the direct route to his home,but made a detour around the outskirts of the city.他没有直接回家,而是绕到市郊兜了个圈子。
2 romance
n.恋爱关系,浪漫气氛,爱情小说,传奇
  • She wrote a romance about an artist's life in Tokyo.她写了一个关于一位艺术家在东京生活的浪漫故事。
  • They tried to rekindle the flames of romance.他们试图重燃爱火。
3 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。
4 eyebrows
眉毛( eyebrow的名词复数 )
  • Eyebrows stop sweat from coming down into the eyes. 眉毛挡住汗水使其不能流进眼睛。
  • His eyebrows project noticeably. 他的眉毛特别突出。
5 grabbing
v.抢先,抢占( grab的现在分词 );(尤指匆忙地)取;攫取;(尤指自私、贪婪地)捞取
  • The plane was grabbing for altitude. 这架飞机在抢占高度。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He sprang to his feet, grabbing his keys off the coffee table. 他一跃而起,从茶几上一把抓起自己的钥匙。 来自辞典例句
6 apparently
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
7 pointed
adj.尖的,直截了当的
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
8 toward
prep.对于,关于,接近,将近,向,朝
  • Suddenly I saw a tall figure approaching toward the policeman.突然间我看到一个高大的身影朝警察靠近。
  • Upon seeing her,I smiled and ran toward her. 看到她我笑了,并跑了过去。
学英语单词
act under coercion
Alisma orientale Juzep.
alleged violation
allotment control system
bahasa
be related by blood
benzoyl thiamin(e) desufide
beta-minus decay
bistable transistor circuit
blennorrhea alveolaris
bottomdump
cascade amplifier klystron
cfar
channel entrance
circular relation
classical guitarists
Cosinodiscus
cosmopolitain
country-side
cushion machine
dakpogan
deck cargo shipper's account
desublimations
dished end plate
double full
double split flow
draw cut type keyseater
eight-ply tyre
entodermal field
equal-area map projections
equivalent chain length
experimenter bias
extended partition
Fairmont City
family Pyrrhocoridae
gathering-arm
give aid
glassy zone
good cause
harbo(u)r signal
haustellates
Head-Holms
hemodialysis
hexadecameric
hexastylos
himerometra magnipinna
hull stiffness
hypocompact
impossiblenesses
in-flight Wi-Fi
irregular loading
jovine
Karungu
laser intercept receiver (lir)
lung-powers
magpie geese
Melina, Mt.
metapragmatic
method of link relatives
moral principle
NADW
Nantulo
natural deposit
non-standard equipment of chemical engineering
nonprofessionalism
object against
official emissary
oligomerisations
order Moniliales
oreste
orthose (orthoclase)
peduncular syndrome
phlegmasia
polarization-preserving fiber
premelanocyte
Ramus spinalis
rich in
rottes
screen-packed bed
Shasta ground sloth
shelllike
snapping joints
Spearsville
spherical radiation
start of message
statement of merchandise variation of funds
static synchronizing torque characteristic
stereomotivator
strip conducting wire
subacute septicemia
testatrices
toner low
transnaturing
trilled
tupid
turbinoid
unstable fluidized bed
venediktov
weld size
Williamsdale
wishtonwishes
wood block paving