Chapter 5

‘We did,’ Mr Doolan told his wife that night. ‘But we never made head nor tail of it.’

‘It’s kind of spooky,’ said Mrs Doolan. ‘I hope I don’t dream tonight. The poor man with that sack¹! I keep thinking he’ll be down in purgatory² — and they’ll make him carve a ship in every one of those bottles — before he can go to heaven.’

‘Don’t!’ said Doolan quickly. ‘You’ll have me dreaming. There were plenty bottles.’

The End

1 sack   

n.袋子，劫掠；vt.解雇，劫掠，把...装入袋子

参考例句：

• They made him pay for his offence by giving him the sack.他们解雇了他，从而使他因自己的过错而受到了惩罚。
• If you're late again tomorrow,you'll get the sack!如果你明天再迟到，那就卷铺盖走吧！

2 purgatory   

n.炼狱；苦难；adj.净化的，清洗的

参考例句：

• Every step of the last three miles was purgatory.最后3英里时每一步都像是受罪。
• Marriage,with peace,is this world's paradise;with strife,this world's purgatory.和谐的婚姻是尘世的乐园，不和谐的婚姻则是人生的炼狱。