The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

learnEnglish · 发表于 2009-10-10 03:33

本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-14 21:12 编辑

Tom did play hookey, and he had a very good time. He got back home barely in season to help Jim, the small colored boy, saw next-day's wood and split the kindlings before supper -- at least he was there in time to tell his adventures to Jim while Jim did three-fourths of the work. Tom's younger brother (or rather half-brother) Sid was already through with his part of the work (picking up chips), for he was a quiet boy, and had no adventurous, troublesome ways.

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in season = 及时
in time = 及时
or rather = 确切说
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kindlings = [复数]引火物
half-brother = 异父兄弟, 异母兄弟
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barely = 仅仅, 刚刚, 几乎不
colored = 彩色的, 有色的(人种, 尤指黑人)
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saw
split
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learnEnglish · 发表于 2009-10-11 03:55

本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-17 20:03 编辑

While Tom was eating his supper, and stealing sugar as opportunity offered, Aunt Polly asked him questions that were full of guile,and very deep -- for she wanted to trap him into damaging revealments. Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning. Said she:

"Tom, it was middling warm in school, warn't it?"

"Yes'm."

"Powerful warm, warn't it?"

"Yes'm."

"Didn't you want to go in a-swimming, Tom?"

A bit of a scare shot through Tom -- a touch of uncomfortable suspicion. He searched Aunt Polly's face, but it told him nothing. So he said:

"No'm -- well, not very much."

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opportunity offer = 机会出现
transparent device = 极易识破的诡计
low cunning = 卑鄙狡诈, 高明
a touch of = 一丝, 一点
warn't = wasn't, weren't
'm = mam
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trap
endow
contemplate
shoot, shot
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revealment = 泄露
diplomacy
marvel
guile
suspicion
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middling = [俗]相当地
damaging
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learnEnglish · 发表于 2009-10-12 05:38

本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-14 21:13 编辑

The old lady reached out her hand and felt Tom's shirt, and said:

"But you ain't too warm now, though." And it flattered her to reflect that she had discovered that the shirt was dry without anybody knowing that that was what she had in her mind. But in spite of her, Tom knew where the wind lay, now. So he forestalled what might be the next move:

"Some of us pumped on our heads -- mine's damp yet. See?"

Aunt Polly was vexed to think she had overlooked that bit of circumstantial evidence, and missed a trick. Then she had a new inspiration:

"Tom, you didn't have to undo your shirt collar where I sewed it, to pump on your head, did you? Unbutton your jacket!"

The trouble vanished out of Tom's face. He opened his jacket. His shirt collar was securely sewed.

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in spite of = 不顾, 不管
next move = 下一步行动
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wind = 动向, etc.
trick
inspiration
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forestall
pump
vex
undo
vanish
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damp
circumstantial
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learnEnglish · 发表于 2009-10-12 12:56

本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-15 00:52 编辑

"Bother! Well, go 'long with you. I'd made sure you'd played hookey and been a-swimming. But I forgive ye, Tom. I reckon you're a kind of a singed cat, as the saying is -- better'n you look. This time."

She was half sorry her sagacity had miscarried, and half glad that Tom had stumbled into obedient conduct for once.

But Sidney said:

"Well, now, if I didn't think you sewed his collar with white thread, but it's black."

"Why, I did sew it with white! Tom!"

But Tom did not wait for the rest. As he went out at the door he said:

"Siddy, I'll lick you for that."

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Bother! = [口]讨厌!
go 'long with you = go along with you = [口]去你的(表示不相信)
ye = [古]你们;你
better'n = better than
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make sure = 弄明白, 查明白
stumble into = 偶尔走入
for once = 仅此一次
the rest = 其余的
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if I didn't think = 我不记得是否
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singe
lick
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sagacity
conduct
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obedient
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大帅 · 发表于 2009-10-12 12:59

like it so much

lz keep on!~

learnEnglish · 发表于 2009-10-12 13:03

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lz keep on!~
( F5 w& ] J$ n; t7 z0 x5 |: X2 k大帅发表于 2009-10-12 12:59

Thank you

learnEnglish · 发表于 2009-10-12 18:10

本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-14 21:13 编辑

In a safe place Tom examined two large needles which were thrust into the lapels of his jacket, and had thread bound about them -- one needle carried white thread and the other black. He said:

"She'd never noticed if it hadn't been for Sid. Confound it! sometimes she sews it with white, and sometimes she sews it with black. I wish to geeminy she'd stick to one or t'other -- I can't keep the run of 'em. But I bet you I'll lam Sid for that. I'll learn him!"

He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though -- and loathed him.

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confound it! = [口]讨厌!该死!可恶!
geeminy = [感叹词] jiminy
t'other = the other
'em = them
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the run = 运转, 发展, etc.
lapel
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learn = [俚]教, 教训
stick = 坚持, 固定, etc.
lam
thrust
bind, bound
loathe
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Maisonette · 发表于 2009-10-12 18:42

nice

learnEnglish · 发表于 2009-10-13 05:44

本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-14 21:14 编辑

Within two minutes, or even less, he had forgotten all his troubles. Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and bitter to him than a man's are to a man, but because a new and powerful interest bore them down and drove them out of his mind for the time -- just as men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises. This new interest was a valued novelty in whistling, which he had just acquired from a negro, and he was suffering to practise it undisturbed. It consisted in a peculiar bird-like turn, a sort of liquid warble, produced by touching the tongue to the roof of the mouth at short intervals in the midst of the music -- the reader probably remembers how to do it, if he has ever been a boy. Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth full of harmony and his soul full of gratitude. He felt much as an astronomer feels who has discovered a new planet -- no doubt, as far as strong, deep, unalloyed pleasure is concerned, the advantage was with the boy, not the astronomer.

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bear down = 克服, 击败
drive out of = 驱逐出
consist in = 在于, 存在于
produce by = 产生于
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for the time = 在当时
at short intervals = 不时地
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in the midst of = 在...当中
so far as ... be concerned = 就...而言, 至于, 关于
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whit = 一点点,丝毫(多用于否定句中)
negro
novelty
whistling
misfortune
enterprise
warble
diligence
knack
gratitude
astronomer
advantage
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stride, strode, stridden
acquire
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peculiar
unalloyed
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learnEnglish · 发表于 2009-10-13 20:31

本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-16 18:18 编辑

The summer evenings were long. It was not dark, yet. Presently Tom checked his whistle. A stranger was before him -- a boy a shade larger than himself. A new-comer of any age or either sex was an impressive curiosity in the poor little shabby village of St. Petersburg. This boy was well dressed, too -- well dressed on a week-day. This was simply astounding. His cap was a dainty thing, his closebuttoned blue cloth roundabout was new and natty, and so were his pantaloons. He had shoes on -- and it was only Friday. He even wore a necktie, a bright bit of ribbon. He had a citified air about him that ate into Tom's vitals. The more Tom stared at the splendid marvel, the higher he turned up his nose at his finery and the shabbier and shabbier his own outfit seemed to him to grow. Neither boy spoke. If one moved, the other moved -- but only sidewise, in a circle; they kept face to face and eye to eye all the time. Finally Tom said:

"I can lick you!"

"I'd like to see you try it."

"Well, I can do it."

"No you can't, either."

"Yes I can."

"No you can't."

"I can."

"You can't."

"Can!"

"Can't!"

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have on = 穿着, 戴着
turn up = 朝上翻, etc.
eat into = 腐蚀, 侵蚀, 耗费
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all the time = 一直, 始终
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pantaloons = [古]男式马裤
roundabout = [美](尤指十九世纪)男用紧身短上衣
air = 态度, etc.
shade = 稍微, etc.
circle
outfit
curiosity
vitals
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check = 突然停住, etc.
stare
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simply = 简直, 完全, etc.
either = (用在否定句中)根本, etc.
sidewise = sideways
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shabby
impressive
astounding
dainty
natty
splendid
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