【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 58
David Caravaggioan absurd name for you, of course ... The English patient says. At least I have a name. Yes. Caravaggio sits in Hanas chair. Afternoon sun fills the room, revealing the swimming motes.The Englishman turns to him. Theres a painting by
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 59
Tell me, is it possible to love someone who is not as smart as you are? in a belligerent morphine rush, wanted the mood of argument. This is something that has concerned me most of my sexual lifewhich began late, I must announce to this select compa
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 60
I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isnt it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now. She can be obsessed by the Englishman because he knows more. Were in a huge field when we talk to that guy. W
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 61
Hes twenty-six years old. The British army teaches him the skills and the Americans teach him further skills and the team of sappers are given lectures, are decorated and sent off into the rich hills. You are being used, boyo, as the Welsh say. Im no
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 62
At two or three in the morning, after leaving the Englishman, she walks through the garden towards the sappers hurricane lamp, Absolute darkness between her and the light.but she knows every shrub and bush in her pathSometimes she cups a hand over th
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 63
She folds her paisley dress and places it on top of her tennis shoes. The tent and the dark wood surround them. They are only a step past the comfort she has given others in the temporary hospitals in Ortona or Monterchi. Her body for last warmth, he
【有声英语文学名著】英语听力 64
How much she is in love with him or he with her we dont know. Or how much it is a game of secrets. As theygrow intimate the space between them during the day grows larger. She likes the distance he leaves her, the space he assumes is their right. She
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 65
She will stare at the word in a novel, lift it off the book and carry it to a dictionary. Beholden. To be under obligation. And he, she knows, never allowed that. If she crosses the two hundred yards of dark garden to him it is her choice, and she mi
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 66
She lies there irritated at his self-sufficiency, his ability to turn so easily away from the world. She wants a tin roof for the rain, two poplar trees to shiver outside her window, a noise she can sleep against, sleeping trees and sleeping roofs th
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 67
Most of all she wished for a river they could swim in. There was a formality in swimming which she assumed was like being in a ballroom. But he had a different sense of rivers, had entered the Moro in silence and pulled the harness of cables attached
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 68
Nothing would protect them then, the brown river thin as silk against metals that ripped through it. He turned from that. He knew the trick of quick sleep against this one who had her own rivers and was lost from them. Yes, Caravaggio would explain t
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 69
IV South Cairo 1930-1938 THERE is, after Herodotus, little interest by the Western world towards the desert for hundreds of years. From 425 B.C. to the beginning of the twentieth century there is an averting of eyes. Silence. The nineteenth century w
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in their ever present knapsacks which will always be a part of their bodies. These men of all nations travel at that early evening hour, six oclock, when there is the light of the solitary. It is an anonymous time, most of the city is going home. The
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 71
John Bell, director of Desert Surveys in Egypt, asked these questions in 1927. Can other depressions in this region, besides the much-discussed Wadi Rayan, be considered possible of utilization in connection with irrigation or drainage of the Nile De
【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 72
In the arboured bedroom the burned patient views great distances. The way that dead knight in Ravenna, whose marble body seems alive, almost liquid, has his head raised upon a stone pillow, so it can gaze beyond his feet into vista. Farther than the
