Chapter 10

Mr. Beckham gave a noisy hawk¹, Blair raised his eyes and sees the evidence. He had yellow hair. No yellow of blond, but yellow mucus as a serious patient. The eyes of both were found and Mr. Beckham did something strange: it was red. Excusez-moi? Blair distracted eyes, scared. Balan?aram his feet nervously² as she looked the question. Vous avez une desire. What desirez vous? She wanted very professorzinho film that she hated the thought of not the impression that it was in order. I wanted to be on the beach right now, instead of freezing your butt³ in a classroom barely heated. I have taken the breakfast because it was dead from hunger. I'd like a lot of things, but could only answer one. Blair said he wanted to go to Yale, but seemed totally redundant⁴ for a trainee⁵ secondary say that I go to a university, but it was better than reveal some juicy personal details to Madame Rogers, anyway. So she designed a high-heeled botinha margin⁶ in terms of evidence and looked for Mr. Beckham again. He was still looking for her, his face a shade of thick reddish-purple. What he was doing? Up to the murder of her or wonder how Blair would be of panties? She turned eyes, disgusted. He looked at the clock Cartier platinum⁷. Another hell of an hour ahead. Next question. Two floors below Blair, in the auditorium⁸ of the Constance Billard School, Serena was ralando with proof of American history. No. Serena was not exactly the type that ralava. She had already counted the number of tips on his tail-of-horse - nine - and had answered the question about the English involvement in the Second World War with a very short essay about how during the war there were shortages of everything and the British had to open hand of nylon socks because there was not available. Instead, these courageous⁹ women, aware of the fashion industry and painting lines on the back of the leg to give the impression that they were wearing stockings. Serena sighed. Then a girl probably spent a night with a guy and not have your picture filling all the gossip pages of the next day. Photos of Serena and Flow in Gorgona appeared on the Post, in Entertainment Weekly, the People, the Women's Wear Daily and on countless¹⁰ Web pages, all calling both "the new couple 'it'''. That was ridiculous. She gave a kiss-off in Flow amanhecia on the sidewalk when the bar of the Tribeca Star Hotel on Sunday, and he went out to catch a private plane to Baja, where they would redo some of the scenes clip for the new music from 45, Life of Krim, before leaving for Christmas. He was incredibly sweet and the two had a great night, but they definitely were not a couple. A couple meant that the two see every day. Meant that they were in love. And while she and Flow could have been half in lust¹¹, they definitely were not lovers, despite the fact he has sent flowers to her. Three dozen black tulips difficult-to-find, to be exact. Serena was accustomed to winning in these guys, so the flowers do not have, since Flow not begin to send him things every day. Sometimes a guy could exaggerate a little. Consider Dan Humphrey, for example. He followed Serena as a puppy when she returned to school in the fall, and even wrote poems that were so serious and sick of love that came to scare. Serena like that of Dan, but he was way too intense. Lucky for her, he fell in love with Vanessa, who was also intense, and they formed a great couple. But Serena was not interested in combining with anyone. She emphasized the independence, their ability to follow the whims¹² and do what it liked. She made a clean impulsive¹³ - form a casalzinho only restrict his style. Serena started the next question: When the U.S. armed forces entered the Second World War and why? A more pertinent¹⁴ question would be: Where is she would use this knowledge? The answer was totally obvious: never! Who to call what happened in the past when the future was in front of you, with surprises and sensational¹⁵ loucuras inenarráveis hiding behind every curve? Someone gave her a pat on the shoulder and looked at Serena. Mr. Hanson was the teacher of Latin and inspector¹⁶ of the evidence of history. He was tall, thin and had a mustache who was always exactly the same size so that all the girls of Constance were convinced that it was false. - What? - Serena said, functioning. She knew that was divagando, but could not be in trouble for it is written evidence could? - I did something wrong? Then she realized that Mr. Hanson had a smile beneath the mustache. He put a copy of the Post in her hands. I turned on page six, the gossip page of the celebrities¹⁷, where there was a huge picture of Serena and Flow entering a taxi after leaving Gorgona on Saturday night. - Sorry to interrupt, but I realized that you were finishing the race and I was wondering if it would be possible to ask for autograph Flow this - he whispered. - I am a big fan of him. It would be great if you autograph. Serena blinked. First, she did not even know that Mr. Hanson was cool enough to know who was Flow. Second, she did not intend to ask nothing to Flow. And third - If ligaaaa! She was nowhere near finishing the race! - The Flow is in Baja - she whispered back. - OK if I only autograph? - She gave a look at the room, embarrassed. Most of the other girls had stopped writing and was looking for her and for Mr. Hanson or talking. - I knew that Serena and Flow are engaged - Nicki Burton said the friend Alicia Edwards. - They will be married on the eve of New Year-in Vegas. In the Bellagio. - The Post said they met in the Black-and-White on Saturday - Isabel Coates said the Kati Farkas. - But it is not quite true. - They met in the recovery last year, right? - Kati said. - Flow was recovering, so kind, a dozen times. But it also. Serena signed his name and returned the paper to Mr. Hanson, hoping that he would not give him a bad note in Latin, now that she does not pegara autograph of the Flow. - Thanks - he whispered, looking to sign it. He smiled all excited. - I am sure it will worth a fortune one day! - Sure - Serena said, being lenient¹⁸ with him. The buzz in the room was getting louder. - Very good, girls. Back to work - roughly shouted Mr. Hanson returned to his desk while in front of the room. Serena looked at the evidence again. When the American forces entered the Second World War and why? But before he could begin to respond, came a swarm¹⁹ of dozens of members of the class, all holding copies of the Post for her autograph. Mr. Hanson could not tell them to stop when he was himself who started everything. - Very well - he said, ignoring the pleading eyes of Serena. - I will give the five minutes all the more in our evidence. Five minutes, then I want to return to their portfolios²⁰. - First I! - Rain Hoffstetter shouted, extending his copy of the Post for Serena. - No, me! - It was the turn of Laura Salmon²¹ shouting, pushing Rain to the side. Serena laughed to herself in amazement²². When he returned to school two months before, was considered a leper. And now everyone wanted his autograph. She hesitated, the pen placed on top of the photo copy of Laura. Then she wrote in her typical letter full of turns: For you who love me, Serena. sex, love and Frankenstein Proof of English learners in the Riverside Prep was notoriously long and difficult, but Dan was not worried. I had read of Frankenstein Mary Shelley twice and save the majority of Keats's poems in his memory anthological. Moreover, sleeping until he could write a test of English for a decent A. After building a Rouxinol''Ode''as completely as could, he turned the blue book of evidence and started writing a new poem that was espetava that turn into something that could send the proposal to the university. Dan in general never wrote anything that was not full of poems of love angútia. This is called''For Vanessa 'Paper Cuts Lemons thrown Salt water in my eyes He was experiencing a new form of free verse and was not sure were some great lines. His face A voice You softens²³ my edges And my engine lubricates Lubricates my engine? No, that seemed too much sex and he did not want to give Vanessa no idea where to generally show the poem to her. What he meant was that she inspired. Dan looked at the words and tried to think of a better way to say it. Then he pulled the sheet of paper from a notebook and amassou ball. Why could not write anything good? Dan felt that the observed someone and looked to the left, where Chuck Bass²⁴, one of the biggest assholes of his class, was sitting. In the fifth series, Chuck was one of the lowest in the boys class. Wore glasses with rims²⁵ of horn and brown suits of velvet²⁶ and it had seemed to go to the bathroom all the time. He and Dan have done together in fifth grade English teacher and the two asked in class, to write a poem about a part of the body. Chuck had a dreadful creative writing and passed a note to Dan Dan begging to write a poem for him. Writing was easy for Dan, he said the first thing that came to mind, a poem on his hands and all that they did it for a day. He gave the poem to Chuck, so he copy, and then prepared another poem about his own mouth that had n?ao nor the quality of the first half. Chuck took the poem A + with the hands and received a note from the teacher saying, See Q ue can do when focused? While Dan achieved a B in the poem of the mouth and a note that said the teacher, I know you can do better. In the beginning, Dan does not matter. At least he had helped a boy who seemed really need help. But a year later Chuck was 45 centimeters high, began to shave and use the ring pink monogram²⁷ and navy blue scarf, and has become a real jerk, especially when it came to girls. He was trying to hurt the sister of Dan, Jenny, in a bathroom at a party booked in the month passado.Dan left very clear that Chuck mortally hated, but this did not matter. From time to time he also asked to Dan to help you in English, and Dan would say it a''fuck you''again. Now that Chuck was looking for the blue book of Dan, trying to read the test on his''Ode to a Rouxinou'', Dan became a blank page and said, can read this, asshole? Fuck you! in huge black letters. Chuck espiou the blue book of Dan and then looked at cimea and showed the middle finger to Dan NO, fuck YOU!, Said Dan and underlined twice. Before moving to the next question, Dan releu some of verss''Ode to a Rouxinol''in its evidence. Secretly listen, and for a long time I was fascinated by the way light of Death. It was the perfect beginning of a poem to Vanessa. It was his secret. And that was true, Dan was half in love with death, the way they made a chimney smoked, rarely ate and drank buckets of coffee. Vanessa is the left. She kept the alive. Dan picked up the pen again and tried to think of a more poetic²⁸ sucista to write the same thing as Keats had written, but different. But even if working a lot, he could not think of another way of saying the same cosia that was at least nice. Instead, he read the next issue of proof. We discussed in class the various meanings of the symbolic²⁹ creature similar to humans Frankster of Mary Shelley. But what Frankster mean to you? Dan looked at the plate Output in bright red on the door of the gym, thinking. He always felt very scary Frankster, ms also very beautiful in some way. Frankenstein did not want to hurt anyone, but could not avoid - was a monster. In a way, was as the love and wonderful horrible, terrifying and liberating³⁰, creepy and sad, all at the same time. Tremendous creative energy, Dan pa'gina turned the blank on the back of a sheet of blue book and wrote to Vanessa again on top of the page. Then wrote the first verse: You're my Frankenstein. Oh, well. Want to know how was the second verse? Vanessa was sitting in the back of the auditorium of Constance Billard School doing the same proof of history of Serena. We discussed in class the various meanings of the symbolic creature similar to humans Frankster of Mary Shelley. But what Frankster mean to you? Dan looked at the plate Output in bright red on the door of the gym, thinking. He always felt very scary Frankster, ms also very beautiful in some way. Frankenstein did not want to hurt anyone, but could not avoid - was a monster. In a way, was as the love and wonderful horrible, terrifying and liberating, creepy and sad, all at the same time. Tremendous creative energy, Dan pa'gina turned the blank on the back of a sheet of blue book and wrote to Vanessa again on top of the page. Then wrote the first verse: You're my Frankenstein. Oh, well. Want to know how was the second verse? Vanessa was sitting in the back of the auditorium of Constance Billard School doing the same proof of history of Serena. He had finished the race 45 minutes earlier and now. while plugged Members of the class were still around Serena workers as bees around the queen just because Serena had been photographed with that tasteless and illiterate³¹ musical singer of a band of the weekend, Vanessa was tracing the route of a movie about the city that she hoped to deliver University of New York as part of its proposal. Fuck the Page Six. Would document the real life that rolava in the city, the really interesting things that happen right under the nose of people while they are occupied by reading the Page Six.Primeiro, she wanted to wake before dawn and shot the fishermen coming to the port to deliver the fish the FIDH Fulton Market. The smell of fish on sick leave, but one thing was perfect: it could follow the journey of a fish from the boat to the market, which would be sold by type so, 65 cents per kilo, and some of the uptown restaurant where he would be served encrusted of pistachio with red potatoes and wild mushroom butter from the dish for $ 29. An anorexic twice divorced from Park Avenue to ask, would give only a few nibble³² and then the rest of the dish would be thrown away.

1 hawk   

n.鹰，骗子；鹰派成员

参考例句：

• The hawk swooped down on the rabbit and killed it.鹰猛地朝兔子扑下来,并把它杀死。
• The hawk snatched the chicken and flew away.老鹰叼了小鸡就飞走了。

2 nervously   

adv.神情激动地，不安地

参考例句：

• He bit his lip nervously,trying not to cry.他紧张地咬着唇，努力忍着不哭出来。
• He paced nervously up and down on the platform.他在站台上情绪不安地走来走去。

3 butt   

n.笑柄；烟蒂；枪托；臀部；v.用头撞或顶

参考例句：

• The water butt catches the overflow from this pipe.大水桶盛接管子里流出的东西。
• He was the butt of their jokes.他是他们的笑柄。

4 redundant   

adj.多余的，过剩的；(食物)丰富的；被解雇的

参考例句：

• There are too many redundant words in this book.这本书里多余的词太多。
• Nearly all the redundant worker have been absorbed into other departments.几乎所有冗员，都已调往其他部门任职。

5 trainee   

n.受训练者

参考例句：

• The trainee checked out all right on his first flight.受训者第一次飞行完全合格。
• Few of the trainee footballers make it to the top.足球受训人员中没有几个能达到顶级水平。

6 margin   

n.页边空白；差额；余地，余裕；边，边缘

参考例句：

• We allowed a margin of 20 minutes in catching the train.我们有20分钟的余地赶火车。
• The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。

7 platinum   

n.白金

参考例句：

• I'll give her a platinum ring.我打算送给她一枚白金戒指。
• Platinum exceeds gold in value.白金的价值高于黄金。

8 auditorium   

n.观众席，听众席；会堂，礼堂

参考例句：

• The teacher gathered all the pupils in the auditorium.老师把全体同学集合在礼堂内。
• The stage is thrust forward into the auditorium.舞台向前突出，伸入观众席。

9 courageous   

adj.勇敢的，有胆量的

参考例句：

• We all honour courageous people.我们都尊重勇敢的人。
• He was roused to action by courageous words.豪言壮语促使他奋起行动。

10 countless   

adj.无数的，多得不计其数的

参考例句：

• In the war countless innocent people lost their lives.在这场战争中无数无辜的人丧失了性命。
• I've told you countless times.我已经告诉你无数遍了。

11 lust   

n.性(淫)欲；渴(欲)望；vi.对…有强烈的欲望

参考例句：

• He was filled with lust for power.他内心充满了对权力的渴望。
• Sensing the explorer's lust for gold, the chief wisely presented gold ornaments as gifts.酋长觉察出探险者们垂涎黄金的欲念，就聪明地把金饰品作为礼物赠送给他们。

12 WHIMS   

虚妄，禅病

参考例句：

• The mate observed regretfully that he could not account for that young fellow's whims. 那位伙伴很遗憾地说他不能说出那年轻人产生怪念头的原因。
• The rest she had for food and her own whims. 剩下的钱她用来吃饭和买一些自己喜欢的东西。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

13 impulsive   

adj.冲动的，刺激的；有推动力的

参考例句：

• She is impulsive in her actions.她的行为常出于冲动。
• He was neither an impulsive nor an emotional man,but a very honest and sincere one.他不是个一冲动就鲁莽行事的人，也不多愁善感.他为人十分正直、诚恳。

14 pertinent   

adj.恰当的；贴切的；中肯的；有关的；相干的

参考例句：

• The expert made some pertinent comments on the scheme.那专家对规划提出了一些中肯的意见。
• These should guide him to pertinent questions for further study.这些将有助于他进一步研究有关问题。

15 sensational   

adj.使人感动的，非常好的，轰动的，耸人听闻的

参考例句：

• Papers of this kind are full of sensational news reports.这类报纸满是耸人听闻的新闻报道。
• Their performance was sensational.他们的演出妙极了。

16 inspector   

n.检查员，监察员，视察员

参考例句：

• The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
• The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。

17 celebrities   

n.（尤指娱乐界的）名人( celebrity的名词复数 )；名流；名声；名誉

参考例句：

• He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
• a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目

18 lenient   

adj.宽大的，仁慈的

参考例句：

• The judge was lenient with him.法官对他很宽大。
• It's a question of finding the means between too lenient treatment and too severe punishment.问题是要找出处理过宽和处罚过严的折中办法。

19 swarm   

n.(昆虫)等一大群；vi.成群飞舞；蜂拥而入

参考例句：

• There is a swarm of bees in the tree.这树上有一窝蜜蜂。
• A swarm of ants are moving busily.一群蚂蚁正在忙碌地搬家。

20 portfolios   

n.投资组合( portfolio的名词复数 )；（保险）业务量；（公司或机构提供的）系列产品；纸夹

参考例句：

• Price risk arises in non-trading portfolios, as well as in trading portfolios. 价格风险中出现的非贸易投资，以及在贸易投资组合。 来自互联网
• How do we fatten our portfolios and stay financially healthy? 我们怎样育肥我们的投资结构和维持财政健康呢？ 来自互联网

21 salmon   

n.鲑，大马哈鱼，橙红色的

参考例句：

• We saw a salmon jumping in the waterfall there.我们看见一条大马哈鱼在那边瀑布中跳跃。
• Do you have any fresh salmon in at the moment?现在有新鲜大马哈鱼卖吗？

22 amazement   

n.惊奇，惊讶

参考例句：

• All those around him looked at him with amazement.周围的人都对他投射出惊异的眼光。
• He looked at me in blank amazement.他带着迷茫惊诧的神情望着我。

23 softens   

（使）变软( soften的第三人称单数 )； 缓解打击； 缓和； 安慰

参考例句：

• Iron softens with heat. 铁受热就软化。
• Moonlight softens our faults; all shabbiness dissolves into shadow. 月光淡化了我们的各种缺点，所有的卑微都化解为依稀朦胧的阴影。 来自名作英译部分

24 bass   

n.男低音(歌手)；低音乐器；低音大提琴

参考例句：

• He answered my question in a surprisingly deep bass.他用一种低得出奇的声音回答我的问题。
• The bass was to give a concert in the park.那位男低音歌唱家将在公园中举行音乐会。

25 rims   

n.（圆形物体的）边( rim的名词复数 )；缘；轮辋；轮圈

参考例句：

• As she spoke, the rims of her eyes reddened a little. 说时，眼圈微红。 来自汉英文学 - 围城
• Her eyes were a little hollow, and reddish about the rims. 她的眼睛微微凹陷，眼眶有些发红。 来自辞典例句

26 velvet   

n.丝绒，天鹅绒；adj.丝绒制的，柔软的

参考例句：

• This material feels like velvet.这料子摸起来像丝绒。
• The new settlers wore the finest silk and velvet clothing.新来的移民穿着最华丽的丝绸和天鹅绒衣服。

27 monogram   

n.字母组合

参考例句：

• There was a monogram in the corner in which were the initials"R.K.B.".原来手帕角上有个图案，其中包含着RKB三个字母。
• When we get married I don't have to change the monogram on my luggage.当我们结婚后，我连皮箱上的字母也不用改。

28 poetic   

adj.富有诗意的，有诗人气质的，善于抒情的

参考例句：

• His poetic idiom is stamped with expressions describing group feeling and thought.他的诗中的措辞往往带有描写群体感情和思想的印记。
• His poetic novels have gone through three different historical stages.他的诗情小说创作经历了三个不同的历史阶段。

29 symbolic   

adj.象征性的，符号的，象征主义的

参考例句：

• It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.它象征着现代妇女的战斗精神。
• The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.基督教的洗礼仪式是一种象征性的做法。

30 liberating   

解放，释放( liberate的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Revolution means liberating the productive forces. 革命就是为了解放生产力。
• They had already taken on their shoulders the burden of reforming society and liberating mankind. 甚至在这些集会聚谈中，他们就已经夸大地把改革社会、解放人群的责任放在自己的肩头了。 来自汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）

31 illiterate   

adj.文盲的；无知的；n.文盲

参考例句：

• There are still many illiterate people in our country.在我国还有许多文盲。
• I was an illiterate in the old society,but now I can read.我这个旧社会的文盲，今天也认字了。

32 nibble   

n.轻咬，啃；v.一点点地咬，慢慢啃，吹毛求疵

参考例句：

• Inflation began to nibble away at their savings.通货膨胀开始蚕食他们的存款。
• The birds cling to the wall and nibble at the brickwork.鸟儿们紧贴在墙上，啄着砖缝。