温馨夜读II PART3 12.Detour to Romance

 

[00:00.11]12.Detour¹ to Romance²

[00:06.39]Harry³ came in the station two years ago and waited at the head of the stairs for his girl from the 9:05 train.

[00:12.60]He was all dressed up and they would be married twenty minutes after she arrived.

[00:17.17]All the passengers had left and she didn’t show up.

[00:20.87]She didn’t come on the 9:18 either, nor on the 9:40, and when the passengers from the 10:02 had all arrived and left,

[00:29.26]Harry was looking pretty desperate.

[00:31.65]I asked him what she looked like.

[00:33.50]“She’s small and dark,” he said, “and her eyebrows⁴ come to a little point in the middle.”

[00:39.60]He showed me the telegram he’d received: ARRIVE THURSDAY. MEET ME AT STATION. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE. MAY.

[00:49.73]“Well,” I finally said, “why don’t you phone to your home?

[00:54.96]She’s probably called there if she got in ahead of you.”

[00:57.67]He gave me a sick look. “I’ve only been in town two days.

[01:02.47]She hasn’t any address for me.” He touched the telegram.

[01:06.06]Harry met every train for the next three or four days.

[01:10.42]One day, after about two weeks, Harry was behind the counter of Tony’s magazine and he began to work as a clerk for Tony.

[01:19.13]I noticed that Harry always saw every person who came up the stairs.

[01:23.37]One year passed, and another, then came yesterday. I heard a cry.

[01:30.45]The cry was from Harry and he was grabbing⁵ a girl.

[01:34.48]She was small and dark and her eyebrows came to a little point in the middle.

[01:38.73]For a while they just hung there laughing and crying.

[01:42.43]He told her the many things he had done to find her.

[01:45.48]What apparently⁶ had happened two years before was that May had come by bus, not by train,

[01:51.90]and in her telegram she meant “bus station,” not “railroad station.”

[01:56.16]She had waited at the bus station for days and had spent all her money trying to find Harry.

[02:01.71]Finally she got a job typing.

[02:04.10]“What?” said Harry, “Have you been working in town? All the time?”

[02:08.78]She nodded.

[02:10.09]“Well, Heavens. Didn’t you ever come down here to the station?”

[02:13.90]He pointed⁷ across to his magazine stand, “I’ve been there all the time and watched everybody that came up the stairs.”

[02:20.33]She began to look a little pale.

[02:22.83]Pretty soon she looked over at the stairs and said in a weak voice, “I never came up the stairs before.

[02:28.51]I went out of town yesterday on a short business trip. Oh, Harry!”

[02:33.00]Then she threw her arms around his neck and really began to cry.

[02:37.69]After a minute she backed away and pointed toward⁸ the north end of the station.

[02:42.29]“Harry, for two years, for two solid years,

[02:45.90]I’ve been right over there working right in this very station, typing, in the office of the stationmaster.”

1 detour   

n.绕行的路，迂回路；v.迂回，绕道

参考例句：

• We made a detour to avoid the heavy traffic.我们绕道走，避开繁忙的交通。
• He did not take the direct route to his home,but made a detour around the outskirts of the city.他没有直接回家，而是绕到市郊兜了个圈子。

2 romance   

n.恋爱关系，浪漫气氛，爱情小说，传奇

参考例句：

• She wrote a romance about an artist's life in Tokyo.她写了一个关于一位艺术家在东京生活的浪漫故事。
• They tried to rekindle the flames of romance.他们试图重燃爱火。

3 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。

4 eyebrows   

眉毛( eyebrow的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Eyebrows stop sweat from coming down into the eyes. 眉毛挡住汗水使其不能流进眼睛。
• His eyebrows project noticeably. 他的眉毛特别突出。

5 grabbing   

v.抢先，抢占( grab的现在分词 )；（尤指匆忙地）取；攫取；（尤指自私、贪婪地）捞取

参考例句：

• The plane was grabbing for altitude. 这架飞机在抢占高度。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He sprang to his feet, grabbing his keys off the coffee table. 他一跃而起，从茶几上一把抓起自己的钥匙。 来自辞典例句

6 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

7 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

8 toward   

prep.对于，关于，接近，将近，向，朝

参考例句：

• Suddenly I saw a tall figure approaching toward the policeman.突然间我看到一个高大的身影朝警察靠近。
• Upon seeing her,I smiled and ran toward her. 看到她我笑了，并跑了过去。