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It was still pretty early. I'm not sure what time it was, but it wasn't too late. The one thing I hate to do is go to bed when I'm not even tired. So I opened my suitcases and took out a clean shirt, and then I went in the bathroom and washed and changed my shirt. What I thought I'd do, I thought I'd go downstairs and see what the hell was going on in the Lavender Room. They had this night club, the Lavender Room, in the hotel.
While I was changing my shirt, I damn near gave my kid sister Phoebe a buzz, though. I certainly felt like talking to her on the phone. Somebody with sense and all. But I couldn't take a chance on giving her a buzz, because she was only a little kid and she wouldn't have been up, let alone anywhere near the phone. I thought of maybe hanging up if my parents answered, but that wouldn't've worked, either. They'd know it was me. My mother always knows it's me. She's psychic1. But I certainly wouldn't have minded shooting the crap with old Phoebe for a while.
You should see her. You never saw a little kid so pretty and smart in your whole life. She's really smart. I mean she's had all A's ever since she started school. As a matter of fact, I'm the only dumb one in the family. My brother D.B.'s a writer and all, and my brother Allie, the one that died, that I told you about, was a wizard. I'm the only really dumb one. But you ought to see old Phoebe. She has this sort of red hair, a little bit like Allie's was, that's very short in the summertime. In the summertime, she sticks it behind her ears. She has nice, pretty little ears. In the wintertime, it's pretty long, though. Sometimes my mother braids it and sometimes she doesn't. It's really nice, though. She's only ten. She's quite skinny, like me, but nice skinny. Roller-skate skinny. I watched her once from the window when she was crossing over Fifth Avenue to go to the park, and that's what she is, roller-skate skinny. You'd like her. I mean if you tell old Phoebe something, she knows exactly what the hell you're talking about. I mean you can even take her anywhere with you. If you take her to a lousy movie, for instance, she knows it's a lousy movie. If you take her to a pretty good movie, she knows it's a pretty good movie. D.B. and I took her to see this French movie, The Baker's Wife, with Raimu in it. It killed her. Her favorite is The 39 Steps, though, with Robert Donat. She knows the whole goddam movie by heart, because I've taken her to see it about ten times. When old Donat comes up to this Scotch3 farmhouse4, for instance, when he's running away from the cops and all, Phoebe'll say right out loud in the movie--right when the Scotch guy in the picture says it--"Can you eat the herring?" She knows all the talk by heart. And when this professor in the picture, that's really a German spy, sticks up his little finger with part of the middle
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n.对超自然力敏感的人;adj.有超自然力的 | |
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2 bout | |
n.侵袭,发作;一次(阵,回);拳击等比赛 | |
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n.伤口,刻痕;苏格兰威士忌酒;v.粉碎,消灭,阻止;adj.苏格兰(人)的 | |
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4 farmhouse | |
n.农场住宅(尤指主要住房) | |
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5 pro | |
n.赞成,赞成的意见,赞成者 | |
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9 buck | |
n.雄鹿,雄兔;v.马离地跳跃 | |
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10 putrid | |
adj.腐臭的;有毒的;已腐烂的;卑劣的 | |
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11 buddy | |
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12 soda | |
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13 intoxicating | |
a. 醉人的,使人兴奋的 | |
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14 license | |
n.执照,许可证,特许;v.许可,特许 | |
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15 minor | |
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16 strictly | |
adv.严厉地,严格地;严密地 | |
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17 giggling | |
v.咯咯地笑( giggle的现在分词 ) | |
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18 moron | |
n.极蠢之人,低能儿 | |
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19 morons | |
傻子( moron的名词复数 ); 痴愚者(指心理年龄在8至12岁的成年人) | |
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21 underneath | |
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22 stinking | |
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 | |
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ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地 | |
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25 tricky | |
adj.狡猾的,奸诈的;(工作等)棘手的,微妙的 | |
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26 butt | |
n.笑柄;烟蒂;枪托;臀部;v.用头撞或顶 | |
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27 twitched | |
vt.& vi.(使)抽动,(使)颤动(twitch的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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28 stork | |
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29 sterling | |
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30 witty | |
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31 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 | |
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32 depressed | |
adj.沮丧的,抑郁的,不景气的,萧条的 | |
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