选择字号:【大】【中】【小】 | 关灯
护眼
|
Chapter 15 GEORGE HAS AN ADVENTURE
关注小说网官方公众号(noveltingroom),原版名著免费领。
Chapter 15 GEORGE HAS AN ADVENTURE
George had gone off with one fixed2 idea in her mind. She was going to find out something aboutthat mysterious tunnel! She thought she would walk over the moorlands to Kilty's Yard, and seewhat she could see there. Maybe she could walk right back through the tunnel itself!
76
She soon came to Olly's Yard. There it lay below her, with Wooden-Leg Sam pottering about.
She went down to speak to him. He didn't see or hear her coming and jumped violently when shecalled to him.
He swung round, squinting3 at her fiercely. 'You clear off!' he shouted. 'I've been told to keep youchildren out of here, see? Do you want me to lose my job?'
'Who told you to keep us out?' asked George, puzzled as to who could have known they had beenin the yard.
'He did, see?' said the old man. He rubbed his eyes, and then peered at George short-sightedlyagain. 'I've broken my glasses,' he said.
'Who's "he" - the person who told you to keep us out?' said George.
But the old watchman seemed to have one of his sudden strange changes of temper again. Hebent down and picked up a large cinder4. He was about to fling it at George when Timmy gave aloud and menacing growl5. Sam dropped his arm.
'You clear out,' he said. 'You don't want to get a poor old man like me into trouble, do you? Youlook a nice kind boy you do. You wouldn't get Wooden-Leg Sam into trouble, would you?'
George turned to go. She decided6 to take the path that led to the tunnel and peep inside. Butwhen she got there there was nothing to see. She didn't feel that she wanted to walk all aloneinside that dark mouth, so she took the path that Julian had taken the night before, over the top ofthe tunnel. But she left it half-way to look at a curious bump that jutted7 up from the heather justthere.
She scraped away at the heather and found something hard beneath. She pulled at it but it wouldnot give. Timmy, thinking she was obligingly digging for rabbits, came to help. He scrambledbelow the heather - and then he suddenly gave a bark of fright and disappeared!
点击收听单词发音
1 vent | |
n.通风口,排放口;开衩;vt.表达,发泄 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
2 fixed | |
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
3 squinting | |
斜视( squint的现在分词 ); 眯着眼睛; 瞟; 从小孔或缝隙里看 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
4 cinder | |
n.余烬,矿渣 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
5 growl | |
v.(狗等)嗥叫,(炮等)轰鸣;n.嗥叫,轰鸣 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
6 decided | |
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
7 jutted | |
v.(使)突出( jut的过去式和过去分词 );伸出;(从…)突出;高出 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
8 tugged | |
v.用力拉,使劲拉,猛扯( tug的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
9 mound | |
n.土墩,堤,小山;v.筑堤,用土堆防卫 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
10 rusted | |
v.(使)生锈( rust的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
11 horrified | |
a.(表现出)恐惧的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
12 reassuring | |
a.使人消除恐惧和疑虑的,使人放心的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
13 funnel | |
n.漏斗;烟囱;v.汇集 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
14 muddle | |
n.困惑,混浊状态;vt.使混乱,使糊涂,使惊呆;vi.胡乱应付,混乱 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
15 thump | |
v.重击,砰然地响;n.重击,重击声 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
16 groan | |
vi./n.呻吟,抱怨;(发出)呻吟般的声音 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
17 soot | |
n.煤烟,烟尘;vt.熏以煤烟 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
18 sooted | |
v.煤烟,烟灰( soot的过去分词 ) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
19 horrid | |
adj.可怕的;令人惊恐的;恐怖的;极讨厌的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
20 smelt | |
v.熔解,熔炼;n.银白鱼,胡瓜鱼 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
21 crouched | |
v.屈膝,蹲伏( crouch的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
22 amazement | |
n.惊奇,惊讶 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
23 gasped | |
v.喘气( gasp的过去式和过去分词 );喘息;倒抽气;很想要 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
24 backwards | |
adv.往回地,向原处,倒,相反,前后倒置地 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
25 cavern | |
n.洞穴,大山洞 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
上一章:
14.乔克躲在露营地
下一章:
15.废弃隧道的机关
©英文小说网 2005-2010