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亲爱的,我看你应当更频繁地把脚从钢琴踏板上抬起来。对了,这一段很好听……非常好听。你说呢?是的,剧中人物把麦克风藏在裤子里来回走动。剧情发生在亚洲,因为这种气氛更有益。来一点安如葡萄酒怎么样?这是我们特意为你买的呢……

I think, dear, you should lift your foot from the pedal more frequently. Yes, that part is very nice … very nice, don't you think? Yes, the characters go around with microphones in their trousers. The locale is in Asia, because the atmospheric1 conditions are more conducive2. Would you like to try a little Anjou? We bought it especially for you…

 

吃饭过程中他一直这样蝶蝶不休地胡扯,他这番话使人切实感到他已掏出自己割过包皮的鸡巴在朝我们身上撒尿。塔尼亚听得厌烦死了,自从满怀柔情蜜意回来后他一直不停地自言自语。塔尼亚告诉我,他边脱裤子边唠叨,一泡热呼呼的尿便源源不断地撒出来,像有人刺穿了他的膀胱。一想到塔尼亚同这个破了膀胱的家伙一起爬上床我就来气。想想看,一个又穷又憔悴的狗杂种,被子里塞着几部下作的百老汇剧本,居然朝我心爱的女人身上撒尿,居然叫红酒、要旋转灯具、要在豌豆汤里放油炸面包块。他脸皮真厚!再想想看,他居然躺在我替他弄好的炉火边,什么都不干,只是撒尿!老天,你这家伙,你该跪在地下好好谢我才是。难道你没有看见你屋里有了一个女人?难道你看不出她已厌烦了?你竟然还沙哑着嗓子告诉我—“好了,我告诉你……有两种方法看待……”去你妈的两种看待事物的方法!去你妈的多元世界和你的亚洲人的音响效果!别把你的红酒或安如葡萄酒递给我……把她让给我……她是属于我的。你去坐在喷泉边上好了,让我来嗅紫丁香!弄出你眼睛里的头皮屑……把那个见鬼的慢板裹在一条法兰绒裤子里!还有别的小乐章……你那衰弱的膀胱造出来的所有小乐章。你那么自信、那么有心计地朝我微笑。我把你奉承得忘乎所以了,知道吗?就在我听你说蠢话的问时她正在抚摸我—只是你没有看见罢了。你以为我乐意受磨难,你说那是我该扮演的角色。好吧。问问她,她会告诉你我是怎样受磨难的。”你是个癌病人、狂人。”那天她在电话上这么说。她现在得到这个癌病人和狂人了,不用多久你也会在身上找到疥癣的。她的血管快炸了,我告诉你,你的话一点意思也没有。无论你唠唠叨叨地说多少也堵不住漏洞。雷恩先生是怎么说的?”言语即意味着孤独。”昨晚我在桌布上给你留了几个字,可你却用胳膊盖住了。

All through the meal this patter continues. It feels exactly as if he had taken out that circumcised dick of his and was peeing on us. Tania is bursting with the strain. Ever since he came back with a heart full of love this monologue3 has been going on. He talks while he's undressing, she tells me – a steady stream of warm piss, as though his bladder had been punctured4. When I think of Tania crawling into bed with this busted5 bladder I get enraged6. To think that a poor, withered7 bastard8 with those cheap Broadway plays up his sleeve should be pissing on the woman I love. Calling for red wine and revolving9 drums and croutons in his pea soup. The cheek of him! To think that he can lie beside that furnace I stoked for him and do nothing but make water! My God, man, you ought to get down on your knees and thank me. Don't you see that you have a woman in your house now? Can't you see she's bursting? You telling me with those strangulated adenoids of yours – "well now, I'll tell you … there's two ways of looking at that…" Fuck your two ways of looking at things! Fuck your pluralistic universe and your Asiatic acoustics10! Don't hand me your red wine or your Anjou … hand her over … she belongs to me! You go sit by the fountain, and let me smell the lilacs! Pick the dandruff out of your eyes … and take that damned adagio11 and wrap it in a pair of flannel12 pants! And the other little movement too … all the little movements that you make with your weak bladder. You smile at me so confidently, so calculatingly. I'm flattering the ass13 off you, can't you tell? While I listen to your crap she's got her hand on me – but you don't see that. You think I like to suffer – that's my role, you say. O.K. Ask her about it! She'll tell you how I suffer. "You're cancer and delirium14," she said over the phone the other day. She's got it now, the cancer and delirium, and soon you'll have to pick the scabs. Her veins15 are bursting, I tell you, and your talk is all sawdust. No matter how much you piss away you'll never plug up the holes. What did Mr. Wren16 say? Words are loneliness. I left a couple of words for you on the tablecloth17 last night – you covered them with your elbows.

 

  他把她用栅栏围起来,好像她是一位圣人身上一块又脏又臭的骨头。若是他有胆量说一声”占有她”,也许会发生一个奇迹。只要说声”占有她”,我发誓一切都会圆满解决的,何况我或许不想要她呢。不知他曾想到这一层了没有?或许我会暂时占有她一会儿,过后再把她还给他,她会变得更好。可是把她用栅栏围起来总不是办法,你无法把一个人围住,没有人再这样干了……你这可怜的、干瘪的杂种,你以为我配不上她,以为我会玷污她、亵读她,可你不懂一个被人玷污过的女人是多么妙不可言,不懂接受别人的精液之后一个女人会更光彩照人!

He's put a fence around her as if she were a dirty, stinking18 bone of a saint. If he only had the courage to say "Take her!" perhaps a miracle would occur. Just that. Take her! and I swear everything would come out all right. Besides, maybe I wouldn't take her – did that ever occur to him, I wonder? Or I might take her for a while and hand her back, improved. But putting up a fence around her, that won't work. You can't put a fence around a human being. It ain't done any more… You think, you poor, withered bastard, that I'm no good for her, that I might pollute her, desecrate19 her. You don't know how palatable20 is a polluted woman, how a change of semen can make a woman bloom!

 

  你以为有一颗充满柔情蜜意的心就足够了。也许对某一个女人是这样的,可你连心都没有了……你什么都不是,只是一个大空尿脖。你在磨利牙齿,扯着嗓门大叫大嚷,你像条看家狗一样跟在她屁股后面跑,到处撒尿,她不把你当作一条看家狗……却把你看成一位诗人。她说,你曾一度是位诗人。现在你又是什么?勇气,西尔维斯特,勇气!把那个麦克风从裤裆里拿出来,放下后腿,别再四处撒尿。我说,拿出勇气来,她已经从你身边逃开了。告诉你,她早已被砧污了,所以你还是把栅栏拆了为好。彬彬有礼地问我咖啡的味儿是否比石灰酸好点儿也没有用,我不会给吓跑的。把老鼠药放进咖啡里好了,再来点玻璃粉。尿一泡热气腾腾的尿,再扔几颗豆蔻进去……You think a heart full of love is enough, and perhaps it is, for the right woman, but you haven't got a heart any more … you are nothing but a big, empty bladder. You are sharpening your teeth and cultivating your growl21. You run at her heels like a watchdog and you piddle everywhere. She didn't take you for a watchdog … she took you for a poet. You were a poet once, she said. And now what are you? Courage, Sylvester, courage! Take the microphone out of your pants. Put your hind22 leg down and stop making water everywhere. Courage I say, because she's ditched you already. She's contaminated, I tell you, and you might as well take down the fence. No use asking me politely if the coffee doesn't taste like carbolic acid: that won't scare me away. Put rat poison in the coffee, and a little ground glass. Make some boiling hot urine and drop a few nutmegs in it…

 

几个星期以来我一直过着一种群体生活,我不得不同其他人一道过日子,主要是几个疯疯癫癫的俄国人、一个醉醺醺的荷兰人和一个叫奥尔加的大块头保加利亚女人。俄国人则主要是指尤金和阿纳托里。

It is a communal23 life I have been living for the last few weeks. I have had to share myself with others, principally with some crazy Russians, a drunken Dutchman, and a big Bulgarian woman named Olga. Of the Russians there are chiefly Eugene and Anatole.

 

  奥尔加几天前才刚刚出院,她在医院里割掉了身上的几根管子,掉了一点儿赘肉,不过看上去并不像是受了多大的罪,体重仍同一部有驼峰似曲线的火车头差不多。她大汗淋漓,口中奇臭,仍旧戴着刨花状的切尔克斯假发。她的下巴上生着两个大疣子,疣子上长出一撮毛来,于是她便干脆留起了小胡子。

It was just a few days ago that Olga got out of the hospital where she had her tubes burned out and lost a little excess weight. However she doesn't look as if she had gone through much suffering. She weighs almost as much as a camel-backed locomotive; she drips with perspiration24, has halitosis, and still wears her Circassian wig25 that looks like excelsior. She has two big warts26 on her chin from which there sprouts27 a clump28 of little hairs; she is growing a mustache.

 

  奥尔加从医院回家后的第二天便又重操做鞋旧业,早晨六点便在长凳上干开了,每天做好两双鞋。尤金总抱怨说奥尔加是个负担,实际上却是奥尔加用她每天做的两双鞋养活尤金和他老婆,奥尔加若是不干活便没有吃的。于是人人都争先恐后及时把奥尔加拖上床,都争着给她足够的食物来维持下去……

The day after Olga was released from the hospital she commenced making shoes again. At six in the morning she is at her bench; she knocks out two pairs of shoes a day. Eugene complains that Olga is a burden, but the truth is that Olga is supporting Eugene and his wife with her two pairs of shoes a day. If Olga doesn't work there is no food. So everyone endeavors to pull Olga to bed on time, to give her enough food to keep her going, etc.

 

每顿饭都是以喝汤开始的,不论是葱头汤、西红柿汤、菜汤还是别的,这类汤都是一个味道。那味道总像是洗碟子的抹布扔在里面煮过一样—有点儿酸味、霉味,上面漂着渣子。每顿饭后我便看到尤金把它藏在柜子里,它就在那儿继续霉变下去,直到下顿饭再端出来。奶油也藏在柜子里,放了三天以后那味道就像一具尸首上的大脚趾。

Every meal starts off with soup. Whether it be onion soup, tomato soup, vegetable soup, or what not, the soup always tastes the same. Mostly it tastes as if a dish rag had been stewed29 in it – slightly sour, mildewed30, scummy. I see Eugene hiding it away in the commode after the meal. It stays there, rotting away, until the next meal. The butter, too, is hidden away in the commode; after three days it tastes like the big toe of a cadaver31.

 

  煎放坏了的奶油时散发出的气味并不是很开胃的,更何况做饭的房间里根本没有任何通风设备。我一打开门就觉得恶心,可是尤金一听到我来了便总要打开百叶窗,扯开像鱼网一样结在一起遮阳光的床单。可怜的尤金!他四下里望望屋里几件粗笨的家具、肮脏的床单和还盛着脏水的洗脸盆,然后说,”我是一个奴隶!”他每天都这么说,还不只说一遍,要说十来遍,说完便从墙上摘下吉他唱起歌来。

The smell of rancid butter frying is not particularly appetizing, especially when the cooking is done in a room in which there is not the slightest form of ventilation. No sooner than I open the door I feel ill. But Eugene, as soon as he hears me coming, usually opens the shutters32 and pulls back the bedsheet which is strung up like a fishnet to keep out the sunlight. Poor Eugene! He looks about the room at the few sticks of furniture, at the dirty bedsheets and the wash basin with the dirty water still in it, and he says: "I am a slave!" Every day he says it, not once, but a dozen times. And then he takes his guitar from the wall and sings.

 

  坏掉的奶油……这也使我产生了许多联想。一想起这变质的奶油我就感觉到自己正站在一个小小的老式院子里,这是一个气味很难闻、很凄凉的院子。稀奇古怪的人物透过百叶窗上的裂缝偷偷地窥视我……其中有围着披中的老妇人、小矮人、生着一张老鼠脸拉皮条的弯腰询背的犹太人、轻桃的小妞和留胡子的傻瓜。他们瞒珊走进院子来汲水、洗刷污水桶。一天尤金问我肯不肯替他倒污水,我就提着桶到那个角落里去了。地上有一个孔,孔周围乱扔着一些脏纸。那一小口井也被排泄物弄得很脏,在英语里排泄物即是屎尿。我将桶一斜,一摊摊又脏又臭、叫人意料不到的东西便噗噗溅出来。待我回去,汤已盛好了,吃饭时我始终想着我的牙刷—牙刷旧了,毛常嵌入牙缝中。

But about the smell of rancid butter… There are good associations too. When I think of this rancid butter I see myself standing33 in a little, old world courtyard, a very smelly. very dreary34 courtyard. Through the cracks in the shutters strange figures peer out at me … old women with shawls, dwarfs35, rat faced pimps, bent36 Jews, midinettes, bearded idiots. They totter37 out into the courtyard to draw water or to rinse38 the slop pails. One day Eugene asked me if I would empty the pail for him. I took it to the corner of the yard. There was a hole in the ground and some dirty paper lying around the hole. The little well was slimy with excrement39, which in English is shit. I tipped the pail and there was a foul40, gurgling splash followed by another and unexpected splash. When I returned the soup was dished out. All through the meal I thought of my toothbrush – it is getting old and the bristles41 get caught in my teeth.

 

  坐下吃饭时我总是拣靠窗的座位,我怕坐在桌子另一端,那儿离床太近。那张床叫人心里发怵,一扭过头去我便可以看到灰色床单上的血污,可我尽量不看那边而去看窗外院子里的人刷洗污水桶。

When I sit down to eat I always sit near the window. I am afraid to sit on the other side of the table – it is too close to the bed and the bed is crawling. I can see bloodstains on the gray sheets if I look that way, but I try not to look that way. I look out on the courtyard where they are rinsing42 the slop pails.

 

  每逢吃饭总要有音乐助兴。大家都取过奶酪后尤金便跳起来摘下挂在床上方的吉他。曲子总是那一支,他说他能弹十五六支曲子,可是我听到的从来没有超过三支。他最喜欢弹的是”迷人的爱情诗”,这支曲子充满苦恼和悲哀的情调。

The meal is never complete without music. As soon as the cheese is passed around Eugene jumps up and reaches for the guitar which hangs over the bed. It is always the same song. He says he has fifteen or sixteen songs in his repertoire43, but I have never heard more than three. His favorite is Charmant poème d'amour. It is full of angoisse and tristesse.

 

  下午我们到电影院去,那儿凉快、黑暗。尤金坐在乐池里的钢琴前,我坐在前排的一只长椅上。影院里空无一人,尤金仍唱得十分卖力,似乎欧洲所有的帝王都在听他演唱。花园门打开了,湿树叶的气味飘进来,潇潇雨声同尤金悲凉凄苦的歌声交织在一起。午夜过后,来看热闹的人身上发出的汗臭和难闻的口臭弥漫了大厅,我便回去找一只长椅睡觉了。影院出口处的灯光在烟气中摇曳,在石棉幕布下方一角上投下一缕微光。

In the afternoon we go to the cinema which is cool and dark. Eugene sits at the piano in the big pit and I sit on a bench up front. The house is empty, but Eugene sings as if he had for audience all the crowned heads of Europe. The garden door is open and the odor of wet leaves sops44 in and the rain blends with Eugene's angoisse and tristesse. At midnight, after the spectators have saturated45 the hall with perspiration and foul breaths, I return to sleep on a bench. The exit light, swimming in a halo of tobacco smoke, sheds a faint light on the lower corner of the asbestos curtain; I close my eyes every night on an artificial eye…

 

  我每夜在这只人工眼的逼视下闭上自己的眼睛……戴着一只假眼站在院子里,仅有半个世界是清晰可见的。石头是湿的,上面生着青苔,石头缝里有黑色的蛤螟。通往地下室的入口处由一扇大门挡着,阶梯很滑,上面尽是蝙蝠屎,很脏。门膨胀了,眼看就要倒下来,门的合页也快脱落了,然而门上却赫然用彩笔写着几个堂皇的字:”切记随手关门。”为什么要关门?我搞不明白。我又瞧瞧这几个字,它们不见了,在原来的地方嵌着一块彩色玻璃。我取下假眼,朝上面啐口唾沫,用手帕擦拭了一番。一个女人正坐在一个高台子上,这个台子比一张巨大的雕木写字台还高。女人脖子上还盘绕着一条蛇。整个房间里摆满了书,稀奇古怪的鱼在彩球状鱼缸里邀游,墙上挂着几幅地图和图表—大瘟疫前的巴黎地图、古代世界地图、克诺索斯和迎太基地图、迪太基被攻占前后的地图。我在房间一角看到一只铁架床、床上放着一具尸体。那女人无精打彩地站起来从床上搬下尸体,心不在焉地把它从窗口扔出去。她回到大雕木写字台旁,从鱼缸里抓出一条金鱼吞下肚去。接着房间慢慢旋转起来,几块大陆—滑进大海里,只有那女人尚在,不过她的躯体也成为一大块土地。我把头探出窗外,埃菲尔铁塔正在注外喷香槟酒,它完全由数字建成,遮盖在黑色花边之下。阴沟汩汩地急速流淌。到处都是屋顶,铺得很整齐、很叫人讨厌的屋顶,除此之外一无所有。

Standing in the courtyard with a glass eye; only half the world is intelligible46. The stones are wet and mossy and in the crevices47 are black toads48. A big door bars the entrance to the cellar; the steps are slippery and soiled with bat dung. The door bulges49 and sags50, the hinges are falling off, but there is an enameled51 sign on it, in perfect condition, which says: "Be sure to close the door." Why close the door? I can't make it out. I look again at the sign but it is removed; in its place there is a pane52 of colored glass. I take out my artificial eye, spit on it and polish it with my handkerchief. A woman is sitting on a dais above an immense careen desk; she has a snake around her neck. The entire room is lined with books and strange fish swimming in colored globes; there are maps and charts on the wall, maps of Paris before the plague, maps of the antique world, of Knossos and Carthage, of Carthage before and after the salting. In the corner of the room I see an iron bedstead and on it a corpse53 is lying; the woman gets up wearily, removes the corpse from the bed and absent mindedly throws it out the window. She returns to the huge carven desk, takes a goldfish from the bowl and swallows it. Slowly the room begins to revolve54 and one by one the continents slide into the sea; only the woman is left, but her body is a mass of geography. I lean out the window and the Eiffel Tower is fizzing champagne55; it is built entirely56 of numbers and shrouded57 in black lace. The sewers58 are gurgling furiously. There are nothing but roofs everywhere, laid out with execrable geometric cunning.


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1 atmospheric 6eayR     
adj.大气的,空气的;大气层的;大气所引起的
参考例句:
  • Sea surface temperatures and atmospheric circulation are strongly coupled.海洋表面温度与大气环流是密切相关的。
  • Clouds return radiant energy to the surface primarily via the atmospheric window.云主要通过大气窗区向地表辐射能量。
2 conducive hppzk     
adj.有益的,有助的
参考例句:
  • This is a more conducive atmosphere for studying.这样的氛围更有利于学习。
  • Exercise is conducive to good health.体育锻炼有助于增强体质。
3 monologue sElx2     
n.长篇大论,(戏剧等中的)独白
参考例句:
  • The comedian gave a long monologue of jokes.喜剧演员讲了一长段由笑话组成的独白。
  • He went into a long monologue.他一个人滔滔不绝地讲话。
4 punctured 921f9ed30229127d0004d394b2c18311     
v.在(某物)上穿孔( puncture的过去式和过去分词 );刺穿(某物);削弱(某人的傲气、信心等);泄某人的气
参考例句:
  • Some glass on the road punctured my new tyre. 路上的玻璃刺破了我的新轮胎。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • A nail on the road punctured the tyre. 路上的钉子把车胎戳穿了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5 busted busted     
adj. 破产了的,失败了的,被降级的,被逮捕的,被抓到的 动词bust的过去式和过去分词
参考例句:
  • You are so busted! 你被当场逮住了!
  • It was money troubles that busted up their marriage. 是金钱纠纷使他们的婚姻破裂了。
6 enraged 7f01c0138fa015d429c01106e574231c     
使暴怒( enrage的过去式和过去分词 ); 歜; 激愤
参考例句:
  • I was enraged to find they had disobeyed my orders. 发现他们违抗了我的命令,我极为恼火。
  • The judge was enraged and stroke the table for several times. 大法官被气得连连拍案。
7 withered 342a99154d999c47f1fc69d900097df9     
adj. 枯萎的,干瘪的,(人身体的部分器官)因病萎缩的或未发育良好的 动词wither的过去式和过去分词形式
参考例句:
  • The grass had withered in the warm sun. 这些草在温暖的阳光下枯死了。
  • The leaves of this tree have become dry and withered. 这棵树下的叶子干枯了。
8 bastard MuSzK     
n.坏蛋,混蛋;私生子
参考例句:
  • He was never concerned about being born a bastard.他从不介意自己是私生子。
  • There was supposed to be no way to get at the bastard.据说没有办法买通那个混蛋。
9 revolving 3jbzvd     
adj.旋转的,轮转式的;循环的v.(使)旋转( revolve的现在分词 );细想
参考例句:
  • The theatre has a revolving stage. 剧院有一个旋转舞台。
  • The company became a revolving-door workplace. 这家公司成了工作的中转站。
10 acoustics kJ2y6     
n.声学,(复)音响效果,音响装置
参考例句:
  • The acoustics of the new concert hall are excellent.这座新音乐厅的音响效果极好。
  • The auditorium has comfortable seating and modern acoustics.礼堂里有舒适的座椅和现代化的音响设备。
11 adagio RfUy2     
adj.缓慢的;n.柔板;慢板;adv.缓慢地
参考例句:
  • The tempo marking in most cases is andante,adagio,or largo.大多数第一乐章的速度标记是行板、柔板或广板。
  • Play the adagio since that's the only goddamned thing you know.就弹那首慢板吧,那是你唯一会弹的鬼曲子。
12 flannel S7dyQ     
n.法兰绒;法兰绒衣服
参考例句:
  • She always wears a grey flannel trousers.她总是穿一条灰色法兰绒长裤。
  • She was looking luscious in a flannel shirt.她穿着法兰绒裙子,看上去楚楚动人。
13 ass qvyzK     
n.驴;傻瓜,蠢笨的人
参考例句:
  • He is not an ass as they make him.他不象大家猜想的那样笨。
  • An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden.驴能负重但不能超过它能力所负担的。
14 delirium 99jyh     
n. 神智昏迷,说胡话;极度兴奋
参考例句:
  • In her delirium, she had fallen to the floor several times. 她在神志不清的状态下几次摔倒在地上。
  • For the next nine months, Job was in constant delirium.接下来的九个月,约伯处于持续精神错乱的状态。
15 veins 65827206226d9e2d78ea2bfe697c6329     
n.纹理;矿脉( vein的名词复数 );静脉;叶脉;纹理
参考例句:
  • The blood flows from the capillaries back into the veins. 血从毛细血管流回静脉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I felt a pleasant glow in all my veins from the wine. 喝过酒后我浑身的血都热烘烘的,感到很舒服。 来自《简明英汉词典》
16 wren veCzKb     
n.鹪鹩;英国皇家海军女子服务队成员
参考例句:
  • A wren is a kind of short-winged songbird.鹪鹩是一种短翼的鸣禽。
  • My bird guide confirmed that a Carolina wren had discovered the thickets near my house.我掌握的鸟类知识使我确信,一只卡罗莱纳州鹪鹩已经发现了我家的这个灌木丛。
17 tablecloth lqSwh     
n.桌布,台布
参考例句:
  • He sat there ruminating and picking at the tablecloth.他坐在那儿沉思,轻轻地抚弄着桌布。
  • She smoothed down a wrinkled tablecloth.她把起皱的桌布熨平了。
18 stinking ce4f5ad2ff6d2f33a3bab4b80daa5baa     
adj.臭的,烂醉的,讨厌的v.散发出恶臭( stink的现在分词 );发臭味;名声臭;糟透
参考例句:
  • I was pushed into a filthy, stinking room. 我被推进一间又脏又臭的屋子里。
  • Those lousy, stinking ships. It was them that destroyed us. 是的!就是那些该死的蠢猪似的臭飞船!是它们毁了我们。 来自英汉非文学 - 科幻
19 desecrate X9Sy3     
v.供俗用,亵渎,污辱
参考例句:
  • The enemy desecrate the church by using it as a stable.敌人亵渎这所教堂,把它当做马厩。
  • It's a crime to desecrate the country's flag.玷污国旗是犯罪。
20 palatable 7KNx1     
adj.可口的,美味的;惬意的
参考例句:
  • The truth is not always very palatable.事实真相并非尽如人意。
  • This wine is palatable and not very expensive.这种酒味道不错,价钱也不算贵。
21 growl VeHzE     
v.(狗等)嗥叫,(炮等)轰鸣;n.嗥叫,轰鸣
参考例句:
  • The dog was biting,growling and wagging its tail.那条狗在一边撕咬一边低声吼叫,尾巴也跟着摇摆。
  • The car growls along rutted streets.汽车在车辙纵横的街上一路轰鸣。
22 hind Cyoya     
adj.后面的,后部的
参考例句:
  • The animal is able to stand up on its hind limbs.这种动物能够用后肢站立。
  • Don't hind her in her studies.不要在学业上扯她后腿。
23 communal VbcyU     
adj.公有的,公共的,公社的,公社制的
参考例句:
  • There was a communal toilet on the landing for the four flats.在楼梯平台上有一处公共卫生间供4套公寓使用。
  • The toilets and other communal facilities were in a shocking state.厕所及其他公共设施的状况极其糟糕。
24 perspiration c3UzD     
n.汗水;出汗
参考例句:
  • It is so hot that my clothes are wet with perspiration.天太热了,我的衣服被汗水湿透了。
  • The perspiration was running down my back.汗从我背上淌下来。
25 wig 1gRwR     
n.假发
参考例句:
  • The actress wore a black wig over her blond hair.那个女演员戴一顶黑色假发罩住自己的金黄色头发。
  • He disguised himself with a wig and false beard.他用假发和假胡须来乔装。
26 warts b5d5eab9e823b8f3769fad05f1f2d423     
n.疣( wart的名词复数 );肉赘;树瘤;缺点
参考例句:
  • You agreed to marry me, warts and all! 是你同意和我结婚的,我又没掩饰缺陷。 来自辞典例句
  • Talk about trying to cure warts with spunk-water such a blame fool way as that! 用那样糊涂蛋的方法还谈什么仙水治疣子! 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
27 sprouts 7250d0f3accee8359a172a38c37bd325     
n.新芽,嫩枝( sprout的名词复数 )v.发芽( sprout的第三人称单数 );抽芽;出现;(使)涌现出
参考例句:
  • The wheat sprouts grew perceptibly after the rain. 下了一场雨,麦苗立刻见长。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The sprouts have pushed up the earth. 嫩芽把土顶起来了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
28 clump xXfzH     
n.树丛,草丛;vi.用沉重的脚步行走
参考例句:
  • A stream meandered gently through a clump of trees.一条小溪从树丛中蜿蜒穿过。
  • It was as if he had hacked with his thick boots at a clump of bluebells.仿佛他用自己的厚靴子无情地践踏了一丛野风信子。
29 stewed 285d9b8cfd4898474f7be6858f46f526     
adj.焦虑不安的,烂醉的v.炖( stew的过去式和过去分词 );煨;思考;担忧
参考例句:
  • When all birds are shot, the bow will be set aside;when all hares are killed, the hounds will be stewed and eaten -- kick out sb. after his services are no longer needed. 鸟尽弓藏,兔死狗烹。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • \"How can we cook in a pan that's stewed your stinking stockings? “染臭袜子的锅,还能煮鸡子吃!还要它?” 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
30 mildewed 943a82aed272bf2f3bdac9d10eefab9c     
adj.发了霉的,陈腐的,长了霉花的v.(使)发霉,(使)长霉( mildew的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • Things easily get mildewed in the rainy season. 梅雨季节东西容易发霉。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The colonel was gorgeous, he had a cavernous mouth, cavernous cheeks, cavernous, sad, mildewed eyes. 这位上校样子挺神气,他的嘴巴、双颊和两眼都深深地凹进去,目光黯淡,象发了霉似的。 来自辞典例句
31 cadaver usfzG     
n.尸体
参考例句:
  • Examination of a cadaver is to determine the cause of death.尸体解剖是为了确认死亡原因。
  • He looked down again at the gaping mouth of the cadaver.他的眼光不由自主地又落到了死人张大的嘴上。
32 shutters 74d48a88b636ca064333022eb3458e1f     
百叶窗( shutter的名词复数 ); (照相机的)快门
参考例句:
  • The shop-front is fitted with rolling shutters. 那商店的店门装有卷门。
  • The shutters thumped the wall in the wind. 在风中百叶窗砰砰地碰在墙上。
33 standing 2hCzgo     
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
参考例句:
  • 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。
34 dreary sk1z6     
adj.令人沮丧的,沉闷的,单调乏味的
参考例句:
  • They live such dreary lives.他们的生活如此乏味。
  • She was tired of hearing the same dreary tale of drunkenness and violence.她听够了那些关于酗酒和暴力的乏味故事。
35 dwarfs a9ddd2c1a88a74fc7bd6a9a0d16c2817     
n.侏儒,矮子(dwarf的复数形式)vt.(使)显得矮小(dwarf的第三人称单数形式)
参考例句:
  • Shakespeare dwarfs other dramatists. 莎士比亚使其他剧作家相形见绌。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The new building dwarfs all the other buildings in the town. 新大楼使城里所有其他建筑物都显得矮小了。 来自辞典例句
36 bent QQ8yD     
n.爱好,癖好;adj.弯的;决心的,一心的
参考例句:
  • 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。
37 totter bnvwi     
v.蹒跚, 摇摇欲坠;n.蹒跚的步子
参考例句:
  • He tottered to the fridge,got a beer and slumped at the table.他踉跄地走到冰箱前,拿出一瓶啤酒,一屁股坐在桌边。
  • The property market is tottering.房地产市场摇摇欲坠。
38 rinse BCozs     
v.用清水漂洗,用清水冲洗
参考例句:
  • Give the cup a rinse.冲洗一下杯子。
  • Don't just rinse the bottles. Wash them out carefully.别只涮涮瓶子,要仔细地洗洗里面。
39 excrement IhLzw     
n.排泄物,粪便
参考例句:
  • The cage smelled of excrement.笼子里粪臭熏人。
  • Clothing can also become contaminated with dust,feathers,and excrement.衣着则会受到微尘、羽毛和粪便的污染。
40 foul Sfnzy     
adj.污秽的;邪恶的;v.弄脏;妨害;犯规;n.犯规
参考例句:
  • Take off those foul clothes and let me wash them.脱下那些脏衣服让我洗一洗。
  • What a foul day it is!多么恶劣的天气!
41 bristles d40df625d0ab9008a3936dbd866fa2ec     
短而硬的毛发,刷子毛( bristle的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • the bristles on his chin 他下巴上的胡楂子
  • This job bristles with difficulties. 这项工作困难重重。
42 rinsing cc80e70477186de83e96464130c222ba     
n.清水,残渣v.漂洗( rinse的现在分词 );冲洗;用清水漂洗掉(肥皂泡等);(用清水)冲掉
参考例句:
  • Pablo made a swishing noise rinsing wine in his mouth. 巴勃罗用酒漱着口,发出咕噜噜噜的声音。 来自辞典例句
  • The absorption of many molecular layers could be reestablished by rinsing the foils with tap water. 多分子层的吸附作用可用自来水淋洗金属箔而重新实现。 来自辞典例句
43 repertoire 2BCze     
n.(准备好演出的)节目,保留剧目;(计算机的)指令表,指令系统, <美>(某个人的)全部技能;清单,指令表
参考例句:
  • There is an extensive repertoire of music written for the flute.有很多供长笛演奏的曲目。
  • He has added considerably to his piano repertoire.他的钢琴演奏曲目大大增加了。
44 sops 7c8d96c2007271332be7bbee8a377468     
n.用以慰藉或讨好某人的事物( sop的名词复数 );泡湿的面包片等v.将(面包等)在液体中蘸或浸泡( sop的第三人称单数 );用海绵、布等吸起(液体等)
参考例句:
  • The government parties may be tempted to throw a few sops to the right-wingers. 执政党也许想对右翼人士施以小恩小惠。 来自辞典例句
  • Those are all sops along the way. 这些是人生道路上的歧途。 来自辞典例句
45 saturated qjEzG3     
a.饱和的,充满的
参考例句:
  • The continuous rain had saturated the soil. 连绵不断的雨把土地淋了个透。
  • a saturated solution of sodium chloride 氯化钠饱和溶液
46 intelligible rbBzT     
adj.可理解的,明白易懂的,清楚的
参考例句:
  • This report would be intelligible only to an expert in computing.只有计算机运算专家才能看懂这份报告。
  • His argument was barely intelligible.他的论点不易理解。
47 crevices 268603b2b5d88d8a9cc5258e16a1c2f8     
n.(尤指岩石的)裂缝,缺口( crevice的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • It has bedded into the deepest crevices of the store. 它已钻进了店里最隐避的隙缝。 来自辞典例句
  • The wind whistled through the crevices in the rock. 风呼啸着吹过岩石的缝隙。 来自辞典例句
48 toads 848d4ebf1875eac88fe0765c59ce57d1     
n.蟾蜍,癞蛤蟆( toad的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • All toads blink when they swallow. 所有的癞蛤蟆吞食东西时都会眨眼皮。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Toads have shorter legs and are generally more clumsy than frogs. 蟾蜍比青蛙脚短,一般说来没有青蛙灵活。 来自辞典例句
49 bulges 248c4c08516697064a5c8a7608001606     
膨胀( bulge的名词复数 ); 鼓起; (身体的)肥胖部位; 暂时的激增
参考例句:
  • His pocket bulges with apples. 他的衣袋装着苹果鼓了起来。
  • He bulges out of his black T-shirt. 他的肚子在黑色T恤衫下鼓鼓地挺着。
50 sags cc800c12ffa850d8aa0904183d70bd5c     
向下凹或中间下陷( sag的第三人称单数 ); 松弛或不整齐地悬着
参考例句:
  • The bed sags in the middle, and is uncomfortable. 床的中间往下塌,很不舒服。
  • He sags his pants; doo rags and a stockin cap. 他穿着松弛的裤子。抹布一样的帽子。
51 enameled e3b37d52cf2791ac9a65b576d975f228     
涂瓷釉于,给…上瓷漆,给…上彩饰( enamel的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • The grey walls were divided into artificial paneling by strips of white-enameled pine. 灰色的墙壁用漆白的松木条隔成镶板的模样。
  • I want a pair of enameled leather shoes in size 38. 我要一双38号的亮漆皮鞋。
52 pane OKKxJ     
n.窗格玻璃,长方块
参考例句:
  • He broke this pane of glass.他打破了这块窗玻璃。
  • Their breath bloomed the frosty pane.他们呼出的水气,在冰冷的窗玻璃上形成一层雾。
53 corpse JYiz4     
n.尸体,死尸
参考例句:
  • What she saw was just an unfeeling corpse.她见到的只是一具全无感觉的尸体。
  • The corpse was preserved from decay by embalming.尸体用香料涂抹以防腐烂。
54 revolve NBBzX     
vi.(使)旋转;循环出现
参考例句:
  • The planets revolve around the sun.行星绕着太阳运转。
  • The wheels began to revolve slowly.车轮开始慢慢转动。
55 champagne iwBzh3     
n.香槟酒;微黄色
参考例句:
  • There were two glasses of champagne on the tray.托盘里有两杯香槟酒。
  • They sat there swilling champagne.他们坐在那里大喝香槟酒。
56 entirely entirely     
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地
参考例句:
  • The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
  • His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
57 shrouded 6b3958ee6e7b263c722c8b117143345f     
v.隐瞒( shroud的过去式和过去分词 );保密
参考例句:
  • The hills were shrouded in mist . 这些小山被笼罩在薄雾之中。
  • The towers were shrouded in mist. 城楼被蒙上薄雾。 来自《简明英汉词典》
58 sewers f2c11b7b1b6091034471dfa6331095f6     
n.阴沟,污水管,下水道( sewer的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The sewers discharge out at sea. 下水道的污水排入海里。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • Another municipal waste problem is street runoff into storm sewers. 有关都市废水的另外一个问题是进入雨水沟的街道雨水。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法


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