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11 Huffin and Puffin
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Huffin and Puffin
‘Isn’t it time we had a meal?’ complained Jack2, staggering over with a great pile of things in hisarms. ‘It makes my mouth water to read “Spam” and “Best Tinned Peaches” and see that milkchocolate.’
Bill looked at his watch and then at the sun. ‘My word – it certainly is time! The sun is settingalready! How the time has flown!’
It wasn’t long before they were all sitting peacefully on tufts of sea-pink and heather, munchingbiscuits and potted meat, and looking forward to a plate of tinned peaches each. Bill had broughtbottles of ginger-beer from the boat, and these were voted better than boiling a kettle to make teaor cocoa. It was very warm indeed.
‘I feel so happy,’ said Lucy-Ann, looking over the island to the deep-blue sea beyond. ‘I feel sovery very far away from everywhere – honestly I hardly believe there is such a thing as school,just at this very minute. And this potted meat tastes heavenly.’
Philip’s white rats also thought it did. They came out from his clothes at once when they smeltthe food. One sat daintily upright on his knee, nibbling3. Another took his tit-bit into a dark pocket.
The third perched on Philip’s shoulder.
‘You tickle4 the lobe5 of my ear,’ said Philip. Dinah moved as far from him as she could, but, likeLucy-Ann, she was too happy to find fault with anything just then.
They all ate hungrily, Bill too, their eyes fixed6 on the setting sun and the gold-splashed sea,which was now losing its blue, and taking on sunset colours. Lucy-Ann glanced at Bill.
‘Do you like disappearing, Bill?’ she asked. ‘Don’t you think it’s fun?’
‘Well – for a fortnight, yes,’ said Bill, ‘but I’m not looking forward to living in these wildislands all alone, once you’ve gone. It’s not my idea of fun. I’d rather live dangerously than likeone of these puffins here.’
‘Poor Bill,’ said Dinah, thinking of him left by himself, with only books to read, and the radio,and nobody to talk to.
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n.一口(气);一阵(风);v.喷气,喘气 | |
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n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克 | |
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v.啃,一点一点地咬(吃)( nibble的现在分词 );啃出(洞),一点一点咬出(洞);慢慢减少;小口咬 | |
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v.搔痒,胳肢;使高兴;发痒;n.搔痒,发痒 | |
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pointed
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