【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER ONE(8)

What, this you mean?‘ She squeezed his hand. "Oh, I expect so. Don‘t know yet, do I? 

Ask me in the morning. Why, have you?‘

He pressed his mouth against the top of her head. "ourse not,‘ he said, and thought  this 

must never, ever happen again.

Pleased with his answer, she curled closer into him. "We should get some sleep.‘

What for? Nothing tomorrow. No deadlines, no work . . .‘

Just  the  whole  of  our  lives,  stretching  ahead  of  us,‘  she  said  sleepily,  taking  in  the 

wonderful  warm,  stale  smell  of  him  and  at  the  same  time  feeling  a  ripple  of  anxiety  pass 

across her shoulders at the thought of it: independent adult life. She didn‘t feel like an adult. 

She was in no way prepared. It was as if a fire alarm had gone off in the middle of the night 

and  she  was  standing  on  the  street  with  her  clothes  bundled  up  in  her  arms.  If  she  wasn‘t 

learning, what was she doing? How would she fill the days? She had no idea.

The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous¹ and bold and make a difference. Not 

change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your 

passion  and  your  new  Smith  Corona  electric  typewriter  and  work  hard  at . . .  something. 

Change  lives  through  art  maybe.  Write  beautifully.  Cherish  your  friends,  stay  true  to  your 

principles, live passionately³ and fully² and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if 

at all possible. Eat sensibly. Stuff like that.

 

It wasn‘t much in the way of a guiding philosophy, and not one you could share , least of 

all with this man, but it was what she believed. And so far the first few hours of independent 

adult life had been alright. Perhaps in the morning, after tea and aspirin⁴, she might even find 

the  courage  to  ask  him  back  to  bed.  They‘d  both  be  sober  by  then,  which  wouldn‘t  make 

things any easier, but she might even enjoy it. The few times that she‘d gone to bed with boys 

she had always ended up giggling⁵ or weeping and it might be nice to try for something in 

between.  She  wondered  if  there  were  condoms  in  the  mustard  tin.  No  reason  why  there 

shouldn‘t  be,  they  were  there  last  time  she  looked:  February  1987,  Vince,  a  hairy-backed 

Chemical Engineer who had blown his nose on her pillowcase. Happy days, happy days . . .

It  was starting to  get bright outside.  Dexter could see the pink of the new day seeping⁶ though the heavy winter curtains that came with the rented room. Careful not to wake her, he 

stretched his arm across, dropped the end of his cigarette into the mug of wine and stared up 

at the ceiling.

 

1 courageous   

adj.勇敢的，有胆量的

参考例句：

• We all honour courageous people.我们都尊重勇敢的人。
• He was roused to action by courageous words.豪言壮语促使他奋起行动。

2 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

3 passionately   

ad.热烈地，激烈地

参考例句：

• She could hate as passionately as she could love. 她能恨得咬牙切齿，也能爱得一往情深。
• He was passionately addicted to pop music. 他酷爱流行音乐。

4 aspirin   

n.阿司匹林

参考例句：

• The aspirin seems to quiet the headache.阿司匹林似乎使头痛减轻了。
• She went into a chemist's and bought some aspirin.她进了一家药店，买了些阿司匹林。

5 giggling   

v.咯咯地笑( giggle的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• We just sat there giggling like naughty schoolchildren. 我们只是坐在那儿像调皮的小学生一样的咯咯地傻笑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I can't stand her giggling, she's so silly. 她吃吃地笑，叫我真受不了，那样子傻透了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

6 seeping   

v.（液体）渗( seep的现在分词 )；渗透；渗出；漏出

参考例句：

• Water had been slowly seeping away from the pond. 池塘里的水一直在慢慢渗漏。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Chueh-hui could feel the cold seeping into his bones. 觉慧开始觉得寒气透过衣服浸到身上来了。 来自汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）