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经典名著:月亮与六便士52
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  • I suppose the next three years were the happiest of Strickland’s life. Ata’s house stood about eight kilometres from the road that runs round the island, and you went to it along a winding1 pathway shaded by the luxuriant trees of the tropics. It was a bungalow2 of unpainted wood, consisting of two small rooms, and outside was a small shed that served as a kitchen. There was no furniture except the mats they used as beds, and a rocking-chair, which stood on the verandah. Bananas with their great ragged3 leaves, like the tattered4 habiliments of an empress in adversity, grew close up to the house. There was a tree just behind which bore alligator5 pears, and all about were the cocoa-nuts which gave the land its revenue. Ata’s father had planted crotons round his property, and they grew in coloured profusion6, gay and brilliant; they fenced the land with flame. A mango grew in front of the house, and at the edge of the clearing were two flamboyants, twin trees, that challenged the gold of the cocoa-nuts with their scarlet7 flowers.

    Here Strickland lived, coming seldom to Papeete, on the produce of the land. There was a little stream that ran not far away, in which he bathed, and down this on occasion would come a shoal of fish. Then the natives would assemble with spears, and with much shouting would transfix the great startled things as they hurried down to the sea. Sometimes Strickland would go down to the reef, and come back with a basket of small, coloured fish that Ata would fry in cocoa-nut oil, or with a lobster8; and sometimes she would make a savoury dish of the great land-crabs that scuttled9 away under your feet. Up the mountain were wild-orange trees, and now and then Ata would go with two or three women from the village and return laden10 with the green, sweet, luscious11 fruit. Then the cocoa-nuts would be ripe for picking, and her cousins (like all the natives, Ata had a host of relatives) would swarm12 up the trees and throw down the big ripe nuts. They split them open and put them in the sun to dry. Then they cut out the copra and put it into sacks, and the women would carry it down to the trader at the village by the lagoon13, and he would give in exchange for it rice and soap and tinned meat and a little money. Sometimes there would be a feast in the neighbourhood, and a pig would be killed. Then they would go and eat themselves sick, and dance, and sing hymns14.

    But the house was a long way from the village, and the Tahitians are lazy. They love to travel and they love to gossip, but they do not care to walk, and for weeks at a time Strickland and Ata lived alone. He painted and he read, and in the evening, when it was dark, they sat together on the verandah, smoking and looking at the night. Then Ata had a baby, and the old woman who came up to help her through her trouble stayed on. Presently the granddaughter of the old woman came to stay with her, and then a youth appeared—no one quite knew where from or to whom he belonged—but he settled down with them in a happy-go-lucky way, and they all lived together.



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    1 winding [ˈwaɪndɪŋ] Ue7z09   第8级
    n.绕,缠,绕组,线圈
    参考例句:
    • A winding lane led down towards the river. 一条弯弯曲曲的小路通向河边。
    • The winding trail caused us to lose our orientation. 迂回曲折的小道使我们迷失了方向。
    2 bungalow [ˈbʌŋgələʊ] ccjys   第9级
    n.平房,周围有阳台的木造小平房
    参考例句:
    • A bungalow does not have an upstairs. 平房没有上层。
    • The old couple sold that large house and moved into a small bungalow. 老两口卖掉了那幢大房子,搬进了小平房。
    3 ragged [ˈrægɪd] KC0y8   第7级
    adj.衣衫褴褛的,粗糙的,刺耳的
    参考例句:
    • A ragged shout went up from the small crowd. 这一小群人发出了刺耳的喊叫。
    • Ragged clothing infers poverty. 破衣烂衫意味着贫穷。
    4 tattered [ˈtætəd] bgSzkG   第11级
    adj.破旧的,衣衫破的
    参考例句:
    • Her tattered clothes in no way detracted from her beauty. 她的破衣烂衫丝毫没有影响她的美貌。
    • Their tattered clothing and broken furniture indicated their poverty. 他们褴褛的衣服和破烂的家具显出他们的贫穷。
    5 alligator [ˈælɪgeɪtə(r)] XVgza   第11级
    n.短吻鳄(一种鳄鱼)
    参考例句:
    • She wandered off to play with her toy alligator. 她开始玩鳄鱼玩具。
    • Alligator skin is five times more costlier than leather. 鳄鱼皮比通常的皮革要贵5倍。
    6 profusion [prəˈfju:ʒn] e1JzW   第11级
    n.挥霍;丰富
    参考例句:
    • He is liberal to profusion. 他挥霍无度。
    • The leaves are falling in profusion. 落叶纷纷。
    7 scarlet [ˈskɑ:lət] zD8zv   第9级
    n.深红色,绯红色,红衣;adj.绯红色的
    参考例句:
    • The scarlet leaves of the maples contrast well with the dark green of the pines. 深红的枫叶和暗绿的松树形成了明显的对比。
    • The glowing clouds are growing slowly pale, scarlet, bright red, and then light red. 天空的霞光渐渐地淡下去了,深红的颜色变成了绯红,绯红又变为浅红。
    8 lobster [ˈlɒbstə(r)] w8Yzm   第8级
    n.龙虾,龙虾肉
    参考例句:
    • The lobster is a shellfish. 龙虾是水生贝壳动物。
    • I like lobster but it does not like me. 我喜欢吃龙虾,但它不适宜于我的健康。
    9 scuttled [s'kʌtld] f5d33c8cedd0ebe9ef7a35f17a1cff7e   第10级
    v.使船沉没( scuttle的过去式和过去分词 );快跑,急走
    参考例句:
    • She scuttled off when she heard the sound of his voice. 听到他的说话声,她赶紧跑开了。
    • The thief scuttled off when he saw the policeman. 小偷看见警察来了便急忙跑掉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    10 laden [ˈleɪdn] P2gx5   第9级
    adj.装满了的;充满了的;负了重担的;苦恼的
    参考例句:
    • He is laden with heavy responsibility. 他肩负重任。
    • Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat. 将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。
    11 luscious [ˈlʌʃəs] 927yw   第10级
    adj.美味的;芬芳的;肉感的,引与性欲的
    参考例句:
    • The watermelon was very luscious. Everyone wanted another slice. 西瓜很可口,每个人都想再来一片。
    • What I like most about Gabby is her luscious lips! 我最喜欢的是盖比那性感饱满的双唇!
    12 swarm [swɔ:m] dqlyj   第7级
    n.(昆虫)等一大群;vi.成群飞舞;蜂拥而入
    参考例句:
    • There is a swarm of bees in the tree. 这树上有一窝蜜蜂。
    • A swarm of ants are moving busily. 一群蚂蚁正在忙碌地搬家。
    13 lagoon [ləˈgu:n] b3Uyb   第10级
    n.泻湖,咸水湖
    参考例句:
    • The lagoon was pullulated with tropical fish. 那个咸水湖聚满了热带鱼。
    • This area isolates a restricted lagoon environment. 将这一地区隔离起来使形成一个封闭的泻湖环境。
    14 hymns [himz] b7dc017139f285ccbcf6a69b748a6f93   第8级
    n.赞美诗,圣歌,颂歌( hymn的名词复数 )
    参考例句:
    • At first, they played the hymns and marches familiar to them. 起初他们只吹奏自己熟悉的赞美诗和进行曲。 来自英汉非文学 - 百科语料821
    • I like singing hymns. 我喜欢唱圣歌。 来自辞典例句

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