英语灵异故事-Snake Anut 04 我的阿姨是条蛇 04

[00:23.85]Snake Anut
[00:28.91]我的阿姨是条蛇
[00:37.09]There was just enough moonlight for him
[00:39.86]to see the bottom of his door,
[00:42.82]so he blew out his candle and unsheathed his sword.
[00:48.00]Then he stood waiting.
[00:51.17]He watched for hours wondering
[00:53.31]what the snake might do.
[00:56.03]What if it slithered through the window instead,
[00:58.95]crept up behind him,
[01:01.16]and struck him with its venomous fangs¹?
[01:04.68]What if it slithered to the top of the wardrobe
[01:07.85]and dropped down from above?
[01:10.80]He was thinking of fleeing for his life,
[01:13.98]when he finally saw the snake
[01:15.73]glide under the door-first its head,
[01:19.01]then its body, then its tail.
[01:22.39]Slash! He swung the sword so quickly
[01:26.48]that the snake had no warning.
[01:29.22]And the tip of its tail began writhing,
[01:31.84]all by itself, there on the floor.
[01:35.69]The snake raised its head as if to strike,
[01:39.72]but then it hissed² viciously
[01:42.06]and slithered out of the room.
[01:44.51]And when he looked down the hall,
[01:46.12]he saw it disappear under his uncle's door.
[01:50.12]The young man
[01:51.03]couldn't stand looking at that quivering tail,
[01:53.88]so he scooped³ it up with his sword
[01:56.00]and flung it in a drawer.
[01:58.87]He hardly slept all that night,
[02:02.17]and when he did
[02:03.69]snakes chased him through his dreams.
[02:07.22]The next morning, he opened the drawer a crack
[02:10.19]to look at the snake's tail
[02:11.99]and was amazed to see
[02:14.34]that it had turned into human toes.
[02:26.14]讲解
[04:23.97]There was just enough moonlight for him
[04:26.71]to see the bottom of his door,
[04:29.76]so he blew out his candle and unsheathed his sword.
[04:34.72]Then he stood waiting.
[04:48.24]He watched for hours wondering
[04:50.37]what the snake might do.
[05:00.90]What if it slithered through the window instead,
[05:03.45]crept up behind him,
[05:05.86]and struck him with its venomous fangs?
[05:16.83]What if it slithered to the top of the wardrobe
[05:19.98]and dropped down from above?
[05:29.05]He was thinking of fleeing for his life,
[05:35.71]when he finally saw the snake
[05:37.36]glide under the door-first its head,
[05:40.70]then its body, then its tail.
[05:53.71]Slash! He swung the sword so quickly
[05:57.38]that the snake had no warning.
[06:00.15]And the tip of its tail began writhing,
[06:02.99]all by itself, there on the floor.
[06:18.60]The snake raised its head as if to strike,
[06:22.59]but then it hissed viciously
[06:25.03]and slithered out of the room.
[06:36.15]And when he looked down the hall,
[06:37.85]he saw it disappear under his uncle's door.
[06:47.89]The young man
[06:48.69]couldn't stand looking at that quivering tail,
[06:51.68]so he scooped it up with his sword
[06:53.75]and flung it in a drawer.
[07:08.12]He hardly slept all that night,
[07:10.89]and when he did
[07:12.50]snakes chased him through his dreams.
[07:23.55]The next morning, he opened the drawer a crack
[07:26.40]to look at the snake's tail
[07:28.46]and was amazed to see
[07:30.38]that it had turned into human toes.
[07:54.51]语言点
[07:57.87]what if
[08:08.45]What if we should fail?
[08:15.06]what
[08:19.48]So what?
[08:22.81]What for?
[08:25.65]What next?
[08:29.85]So...that...  如此...以致...
[08:44.13]It is so quiet in the room
[08:46.05]that you can hear the drop of a pin.
[08:52.55]so that
[09:04.39]hardly slept all that night
[09:07.48]hardly  几乎不
[09:11.29]do not
[09:16.26]hardly
[09:22.05]His legs were so weak that he could hardly stand,
[09:25.94]could he?
[09:45.54]谢谢收听

1 fangs   

n.（尤指狗和狼的）长而尖的牙( fang的名词复数 )；（蛇的）毒牙；罐座

参考例句：

• The dog fleshed his fangs in the deer's leg. 狗用尖牙咬住了鹿腿。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• Dogs came lunging forward with their fangs bared. 狗龇牙咧嘴地扑过来。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 hissed   

发嘶嘶声( hiss的过去式和过去分词 )； 发嘘声表示反对

参考例句：

• Have you ever been hissed at in the middle of a speech? 你在演讲中有没有被嘘过？
• The iron hissed as it pressed the wet cloth. 熨斗压在湿布上时发出了嘶嘶声。

3 scooped   

v.抢先报道( scoop的过去式和过去分词 )；（敏捷地）抱起；抢先获得；用铲[勺]等挖（洞等）

参考例句：

• They scooped the other newspapers by revealing the matter. 他们抢先报道了这件事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The wheels scooped up stones which hammered ominously under the car. 车轮搅起的石块，在车身下发出不吉祥的锤击声。 来自《简明英汉词典》