选择字号:【大】【中】【小】 | 关灯
护眼
|
关注小说网官方公众号(noveltingroom),原版名著免费领。
I'm the most terrific liar1 you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible. So when I told old Spencer I had to go to the gym and get my equipment and stuff, that was a sheer lie. I don't even keep my goddam equipment in the gym.
Where I lived at Pencey, I lived in the Ossenburger Memorial Wing of the new dorms. It was only for juniors and seniors. I was a junior. My roommate was a senior. It was named after this guy Ossenburger that went to Pencey. He made a pot of dough2 in the undertaking3 business after he got out of Pencey. What he did, he started these undertaking parlors4 all over the country that you could get members of your family buried for about five bucks6 apiece. You should see old Ossenburger. He probably just shoves them in a sack and dumps them in the river. Anyway, he gave Pencey a pile of dough, and they named our wing alter him. The first football game of the year, he came up to school in this big goddam Cadillac, and we all had to stand up in the grandstand and give him a locomotive--that's a cheer. Then, the next morning, in chapel8, be made a speech that lasted about ten hours. He started off with about fifty corny jokes, just to show us what a regular guy he was. Very big deal. Then he started telling us how he was never ashamed, when he was in some kind of trouble or something, to get right down his knees and pray to God. He told us we should always pray to God--talk to Him and all--wherever we were. He told us we ought to think of Jesus as our buddy9 and all. He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me. I just see the big phony bastard10 shifting into first gear and asking Jesus to send him a few more stiffs. The only good part of his speech was right in the middle of it. He was telling us all about what a
1 liar | |
n.说谎的人 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
2 dough | |
n.生面团;钱,现款 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
3 undertaking | |
n.保证,许诺,事业 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
4 parlors | |
客厅( parlor的名词复数 ); 起居室; (旅馆中的)休息室; (通常用来构成合成词)店 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
5 bout | |
n.侵袭,发作;一次(阵,回);拳击等比赛 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
6 bucks | |
n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 );钱;(英国十九世纪初的)花花公子;(用于某些表达方式)责任v.(马等)猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 );抵制;猛然震荡;马等尥起后蹄跳跃 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
7 buck | |
n.雄鹿,雄兔;v.马离地跳跃 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
8 chapel | |
n.小教堂,殡仪馆 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
9 buddy | |
n.(美口)密友,伙伴 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
10 bastard | |
n.坏蛋,混蛋;私生子 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
11 swell | |
vi.膨胀,肿胀;增长,增强 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
12 compulsory | |
n.强制的,必修的;规定的,义务的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
13 disturbance | |
n.动乱,骚动;打扰,干扰;(身心)失调 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
14 cosy | |
adj.温暖而舒适的,安逸的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
15 ward | |
n.守卫,监护,病房,行政区,由监护人或法院保护的人(尤指儿童);vt.守护,躲开 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
16 stink | |
vi.发出恶臭;糟透,招人厌恶;n.恶臭 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
17 illiterate | |
adj.文盲的;无知的;n.文盲 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
18 bondage | |
n.奴役,束缚 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
19 hardy | |
adj.勇敢的,果断的,吃苦的;耐寒的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
20 peculiar | |
adj.古怪的,异常的;特殊的,特有的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
21 gale | |
n.大风,强风,一阵闹声(尤指笑声等) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
22 mashed | |
a.捣烂的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
23 pimples | |
n.丘疹,粉刺,小脓疱( pimple的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
24 standing | |
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
25 ledge | |
n.壁架,架状突出物;岩架,岩礁 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
26 guts | |
v.狼吞虎咽,贪婪地吃,飞碟游戏(比赛双方每组5人,相距15码,互相掷接飞碟);毁坏(建筑物等)的内部( gut的第三人称单数 );取出…的内脏n.勇气( gut的名词复数 );内脏;消化道的下段;肠 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
27 sneaked | |
v.潜行( sneak的过去式和过去分词 );偷偷溜走;(儿童向成人)打小报告;告状 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
28 fiddling | |
微小的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
29 sarcastic | |
adj.讥讽的,讽刺的,嘲弄的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
30 hoarse | |
adj.嘶哑的,沙哑的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
31 sadistic | |
adj.虐待狂的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
32 strap | |
n.皮带,带子;v.用带扣住,束牢;用绷带包扎 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
33 conceited | |
adj.自负的,骄傲自满的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
34 aggravating | |
adj.恼人的,讨厌的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
35 flannel | |
n.法兰绒;法兰绒衣服 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
36 grunted | |
(猪等)作呼噜声( grunt的过去式和过去分词 ); (指人)发出类似的哼声; 咕哝着说 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
37 grunt | |
v.嘟哝;作呼噜声;n.呼噜声,嘟哝 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
38 annex | |
vt.兼并,吞并;n.附属建筑物 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
39 kit | |
n.用具包,成套工具;随身携带物 | |
参考例句: |
|
|