选择字号:【大】【中】【小】 | 关灯
护眼
|
Chapter Eighteen
关注小说网官方公众号(noveltingroom),原版名著免费领。
Eighteen
T he inquest was held that afternoon (Saturday) at two o’clock at the Blue Boar. The local excitement was, I needhardly say, tremendous. There had been no murder in St. Mary Mead1 for at least fifteen years. And to have someonelike Colonel Protheroe murdered actually in the Vicarage study is such a feast of sensation as rarely falls to the lot of avillage population.
Various comments floated to my ears which I was probably not meant to hear.
“There’s Vicar. Looks pale, don’t he? I wonder if he had a hand in it. ’Twas done at Vicarage, after all.” “How canyou, Mary Adams? And him visiting Henry Abbott at the time.” “Oh! But they do say him and the Colonel had words.
There’s Mary Hill. Giving herself airs, she is, on account of being in service there. Hush2, here’s coroner.”
The coroner was Dr. Roberts of our adjoining town of Much Benham. He cleared his throat, adjusted hiseyeglasses, and looked important.
To recapitulate3 all the evidence would be merely tiresome4. Lawrence Redding gave evidence of finding the body,and identified the pistol as belonging to him. To the best of his belief he had seen it on the Tuesday, two dayspreviously. It was kept on a shelf in his cottage, and the door of the cottage was habitually5 unlocked.
Mrs. Protheroe gave evidence that she had last seen her husband at about a quarter to six when they separated inthe village street. She agreed to call for him at the Vicarage later. She had gone to the Vicarage about a quarter pastsix, by way of the back lane and the garden gate. She had heard no voices in the study and had imagined that the roomwas empty, but her husband might have been sitting at the writing table, in which case she would not have seen him.
As far as she knew, he had been in his usual health and spirits. She knew of no enemy who might have had a grudgeagainst him.
I gave evidence next, told of my appointment with Protheroe and my summons to the Abbotts.’ I described how Ihad found the body and my summoning of Dr. Haydock.
“How many people, Mr. Clement
点击
收听单词发音
![收听单词发音](/template/default/tingnovel/images/play.gif)
1
mead
![]() |
|
n.蜂蜜酒 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
2
hush
![]() |
|
int.嘘,别出声;n.沉默,静寂;v.使安静 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
3
recapitulate
![]() |
|
v.节述要旨,择要说明 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
4
tiresome
![]() |
|
adj.令人疲劳的,令人厌倦的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
5
habitually
![]() |
|
ad.习惯地,通常地 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
6
clement
![]() |
|
adj.仁慈的;温和的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
7
alluded
![]() |
|
提及,暗指( allude的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
8
spoke
![]() |
|
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
9
technically
![]() |
|
adv.专门地,技术上地 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
10
emphatic
![]() |
|
adj.强调的,着重的;无可置疑的,明显的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
11
inspector
![]() |
|
n.检查员,监察员,视察员 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
12
discreet
![]() |
|
adj.(言行)谨慎的;慎重的;有判断力的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
13
abridged
![]() |
|
削减的,删节的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
14
truculent
![]() |
|
adj.野蛮的,粗野的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
15
subpoenaed
![]() |
|
v.(用传票)传唤(某人)( subpoena的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
16
archer
![]() |
|
n.射手,弓箭手 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
17
plunged
![]() |
|
v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
18
briefly
![]() |
|
adv.简单地,简短地 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
19
expressively
![]() |
|
ad.表示(某事物)地;表达地 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
20
cram
![]() |
|
v.填塞,塞满,临时抱佛脚,为考试而学习 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
21
rattling
![]() |
|
adj. 格格作响的, 活泼的, 很好的 adv. 极其, 很, 非常 动词rattle的现在分词 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
22
spicy
![]() |
|
adj.加香料的;辛辣的,有风味的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
23
badinage
![]() |
|
n.开玩笑,打趣 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
24
confession
![]() |
|
n.自白,供认,承认 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
25
daunts
![]() |
|
使(某人)气馁,威吓( daunt的第三人称单数 ) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
26
excavation
![]() |
|
n.挖掘,发掘;被挖掘之地 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
27
relaxation
![]() |
|
n.松弛,放松;休息;消遣;娱乐 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
28
eddied
![]() |
|
起漩涡,旋转( eddy的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
29
neolithic
![]() |
|
adj.新石器时代的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
30
forth
![]() |
|
adv.向前;向外,往外 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
31
rosy
![]() |
|
adj.美好的,乐观的,玫瑰色的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
32
detailed
![]() |
|
adj.详细的,详尽的,极注意细节的,完全的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
33
boor
![]() |
|
n.举止粗野的人;乡下佬 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
34
terse
![]() |
|
adj.(说话,文笔)精炼的,简明的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
35
mid
![]() |
|
adj.中央的,中间的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
36
lawful
![]() |
|
adj.法律许可的,守法的,合法的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
37
relish
![]() |
|
n.滋味,享受,爱好,调味品;vt.加调味料,享受,品味;vi.有滋味 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
38
perfectly
![]() |
|
adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
39
isolated
![]() |
|
adj.与世隔绝的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
40
standing
![]() |
|
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
41
puffed
![]() |
|
adj.疏松的v.使喷出( puff的过去式和过去分词 );喷着汽(或烟)移动;吹嘘;吹捧 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
42
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: |
|
|
43
sprint
![]() |
|
n.短距离赛跑;vi. 奋力而跑,冲刺;vt.全速跑过 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
44
exquisite
![]() |
|
adj.精美的;敏锐的;剧烈的,感觉强烈的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
45
poise
![]() |
|
vt./vi. 平衡,保持平衡;n.泰然自若,自信 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
46
detrimental
![]() |
|
adj.损害的,造成伤害的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
47
unwilling
![]() |
|
adj.不情愿的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
48
pharmaceutical
![]() |
|
adj.药学的,药物的;药用的,药剂师的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
49
monologue
![]() |
|
n.长篇大论,(戏剧等中的)独白 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
上一章:
第十七章
下一章:
第十八章
©英文小说网 2005-2010