【跟着英剧练发音】Parades End E02 - 12

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E – Edith Duchemin

V – Valentine Wannop

D – Reverend Duchemin

 

--: I don't wish to come between a country parson albeit¹ a gentleman of means, to say the least, and one, moreover, with a distinguished² association with a great university...

--: Breakfast Duchemin of Cambridge!

--: Between even such a man, and the organ of the parish...

D: Organ?

--: What?

D: You refer to my organ?

--: No. Yes, I refer to the parish magazine.

D: Of course.

E: I think it's going to be all right. He had a cooked breakfast, thank God. It's the fasting that brings it on.

--: But the parish magazine is not self-evidently the appropriate platform from which to condemn³ restrictive female undergarments as being a danger to the sexual health of our women...

D: You think so?

E: It's sweet of you to come and hold my hand.

V: Edith, are you sure you're safe here?

E: There's nothing to be done. I just run a bath and think of Browning.

V: Drowning?

E: The poet Browning, and the Rossettis. Mr Macmaster has taken to coming down at the weekends to talk to my husband about the poets he knew in his young days. I would like you to know Mr Macmaster better. He has opened worlds to me. I have the honour of receiving for him on what are becoming known as Macmaster's Fridays. We might find a little job for you, behind the tea-table. What do you think?

V: Well, I think... I think...

E: Vincent, Mr Macmaster, has rooms in Gray's Inn, right across from some people you know, I think. Mr and Mrs Tietjens?

V: Does he?

1 albeit   

conj.即使；纵使；虽然

参考例句：

• Albeit fictional,she seemed to have resolved the problem.虽然是虚构的，但是在她看来好象是解决了问题。
• Albeit he has failed twice,he is not discouraged.虽然失败了两次，但他并没有气馁。

2 distinguished   

adj.卓越的，杰出的，著名的

参考例句：

• Elephants are distinguished from other animals by their long noses.大象以其长长的鼻子显示出与其他动物的不同。
• A banquet was given in honor of the distinguished guests.宴会是为了向贵宾们致敬而举行的。

3 condemn   

vt.谴责，指责；宣判(罪犯)，判刑

参考例句：

• Some praise him,whereas others condemn him.有些人赞扬他，而有些人谴责他。
• We mustn't condemn him on mere suppositions.我们不可全凭臆测来指责他。